“Honey do you mind vaccuming today?” I asked Mr NQN last Saturday.
“Errr okaaay….later” he said looking at me with a measure of suspicion. I’m sure he wondered how a perfectly lovely weekend day had suddenly turned hideous.
About twenty minutes later, I heard some expletives from the lounge room. “&*(&(&(!!” he yelled and then repeated it for good measure. “I’ve put out my neck!” he said woundedly.
“How? You were just sitting there on the couch playing on your phone!” I asked.
“I dunno, I just did” he said. And with that he limped off to the bedroom to sleep off the rest of the day.
Now, I’m not accusing him of faking it, I think that he had really hurt himself but I couldn’t help noting the coincidence in timing. Our plans to do the grocery shopping were aborted and I spent the rest of the day cleaning. And I was bored.
I decided that the weather was perfect for a spot of baking. If you remember last Saturday in Sydney, it was a summer day that was little cooler than usual so the oven heat wouldn’t be too much of an intrusion. Alas, as it was grocery shopping day, our fridge and pantry supplies were running low and I could only make one item that sat on my “to cook” list. One that I found on Jenny’s blog Practically Perfect.
It fit the brief exactly. I didn’t have any bread so I needed to make some for lunch. I had flour, salt, beer, cheese and green onions and it was a cinch as it didn’t require any kneading or proving at all. Just a stir of everything in a bowl and a stint in the oven and then we had our perfect bread for your Australian male specimen.
The thing that will strike you when mixing this all together is how just adding the beer to the flour gives it that instant yeasted bread smell-naturally of course because of the yeast in the beer. You could make this plain as Jenny did but her suggestion of cheese and onion bread spoke to me as I love cheese and onion chips. The bread is so ridiculously simple and it’s more like a damper or scone than a regular bread. Flavour-wise it has a just enough hops flavour to it for beer lovers but not too much to make beer non lovers recoil. It was also a hit with the patient too.
I told Mr NQN that I had written about the coincidence in timing for his injury. After some initial protest, a smile spread across his face and he laughed and said “Yeah I know.”
Happy Australia Day for tomorrow Dearest Readers!
So tell me Dear Reader, does your other half or flat mate ever try to get out of housework? And do you like the flavour of beer in cooking?
Cheese & Onion Beer Bread for Australia Day
- 1 330ml/11.6fl oz can or bottle of beer (I only had a 375ml bottle so I gave Mr NQN the rest to drink)
- 2 2/3 cups of self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chopped green onions
- 1 cup grated cheese (nothing fancy, I used tasty cheese)
1. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F. Line a 9 inch loaf tin (or you can live life on the edge and just spray it with non stick oil spray but the cheese does stick a little). Place flour and salt in a large bowl and add the beer and stir until combined. It will start to look just like a regular bread dough. Add the green onions and cheese and stir to distribute. I find a silicon spatula helps with this mix.
It looks (and smells) just like regular dough
Stir through the good stuff
Then spread out in a loaf tin-it will rise (I didn’t line mine, only sprayed it with oil spray)
2. Place the batter in the loaf tin and bake for 45-50 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then remove from tin, slice and serve warm with good butter. And a tip: to slice, turn this loaf upside down as the top is quite crusty, and start cutting from the bottom.
This smells amazing baking in the oven. Get ready for a surly man crowd to gather!
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Happy Australia Day!
That bread is beautiful and so tempting.
Cheers,
Rosa
I’ve made this sort of bread before too, so easy and tasty!
I’m actually making some more of this today and trying out the cheese addition
Glad it worked for you!
I don’t think I’ve ever had a flatmate who’s faked an injury, but I did share an apartment with my brother and one of his friends for a year. Those guys were terrible dishwashers… something that they later revealed was strategic in order to get out of doing them!
I’m a beer hater…..are you sure I would not recoil?….you see I’d love to try this!
I think beer is an under-used cooking liquid. As someone who has used it in sauces, cakes, and braises, I now feel very incline to use it in bread.
Great recipe find, I have an Irish friend whos been asking for soda bread. As for Mr NQN, well hope his neck improved on the Sunday
Why is it that this story sounds so familiar…and I’m not referring to the bread
The bread though looks great and not too difficult and I agree would be perfect for Australua Day!
That’s the kind of bread I like to make – mix it, put it in the tin, then into the oven. My husband says he would help with the cleaning but unfortunately he has to stay back at the office and he likes beer with everything.
this sounds delicious. I have a similar recipe for basil beer bread.
Hi Lorraine, Great recipe., I laughed out loud when I read your story about Mr NQN as I genuinely have a bad neck but sometimes feign soreness so I can get out of certain housework I am not keen on doing!
Yes, adding beer to make bread is a wonderful way to go. Les Tanner the Melbourne cartoonist sent a similar recipe to his sister, a family friend, decades ago and said the only problem was trying not to look too smug while making it
Looks and sounds delicious, Lorraine. Love the cheesiness of it. Happy Australia Day!
What a beautiful bread from such an easy recipe. If I hadn’t just gone to the bakery…
My husband is pretty good with chores, but he HATES to disinfect fruits and veggies, which we have to do as we live in Mexico where amoebas can be a problem…I love the flavor of beer in food–in both pastries and savory dishes as well (Flemish Carbonnade????? Yum!).
The bread looks delicious and so simple. Mr Glam always offers to help with the cleaning but is so bad at it that I always refuse. I can’t help thinking there’s some planning involved!! GG
I love savoury breads like this!
Beer bread was a ataple here last summer – my favorite was done with spelt wholemeal flour and a porter from Bath Ales, topped with a spicy cajun spice mix.
Seeing this makes me think I better go buy more spelt flour!
What a great concoction ready for Australia Day!
Wow that is perfect for Australia Day and so simple! Nevermind doing the grocery shop when you can make a simple bread like that.
My 16 year son is the best at getting out of things. He will hide in the toilet after dinner so tat the dishes are all done!
I don’t like beer, but I’m sure this would be delicious.
Looks fabulous – perfect for Oz Day. Have a good one tomorrow.
That looks and sounds wonderful, Lorraine. Copied the recipe already. Bet it’s divine toasted!
Yummo! This is on the list for the next pasta night! Thanks you.
Lol – what a drama queen! My husband is the same. Whenever there is something for him to do there is always some excuse.
Wow – looks impressively fluffy for no-knead! Happy Australia Day!
Yes my husband is no help with the cleaning. On the rare occasions he tries to help, having the attention span of a gnat, he starts a job like vacuuming then wanders off leaving the vacuum in the middle of the floor and doesn’t come back to it for hours. Lol
Oh no he would never do that (note the sarcasm). I think ‘later’ is a standard response from males.
I’ve never made a beer bread before but if it’s along the lines of beer-battered chips then I’m sure it’s delicious.
What you come up with when you have nothing in the fridge is remarkable… no soggy old salad and mystery meat for you!!! Brava!
Great recipe – but I doubt there will be any leftover beer on Australia day to make it
Have your recipe in the oven right now, experimenting with my steam oven, using silicon loaf mould, if successful will photograph, only problem was that I had to down the remainder of the Cascade Light used, no one else around to volunteer.Drinking before 10am could be dangerous.
Also meant to say great recipe for using up left over bits of cheese that are not presentable on a cheeseplate, this was my motivation. Roz
Cant wait to make this bread tomorrow for Australia Day.
Happy Australia Day!
I always add beer to my bolognese sauce too.
My husband is pretty good around the house when I’m tired but I cant recall ever seeing him with the vacuum cleaner!
I love your Mr NQN he sounds like a sweetie.
Happy Australia Day Lorraine! This looks great. I have a beer bread recipe that has never failed me and everytime I make it, it disappears!
Bread looks delicious….then again I think anything with carbs looks delicious.Sigh. As for my hubby, he is a domestic god! I am the envy of all my friends….that being said though I HATE how he leaves things on the kitchen table in piles….drives me mental!
Have made something very similar to this before, TRUE!
Sometimes the simpliest things to do are the tastiest too!
“In a minute” seems to be the “buzz word” for my other half!
All I do now is shake my head, be patient and laugh!
A baker I am not, but this I shall certainly try, perhaps even tomorrow
! Fantastically easy to make and looks oh so good! OK, I love to cook with beer, but this will be more likely nibbled with a glass of wine in hand 
! Housework? Well, during the decades of ‘partnering days’ was lucky enough for neither of us to have to do it ; now I have no choice, not too often is a knight in shining armour ready with a mop or dishcloth!! Happy Australia Day!!
This looks fantastic. The only time I made beer bread – it was horrible because I used beer that I would drink with much hesitation!
Giving someone 45ml of beer is like torture unless immediately followed by a bottle, or more!
I had to laugh at what Mr NQN did because that is exactly what Mr Bao would do
hahaha He would always give me the lamest excuses just to get outta house work sigh…men lol
And i’m SO SO SO going to make this bread because it doesn’t require any kneading woo hoo ~
Happy Australia Day too
I love using Guinness for making bread, the flavour of the stout is out of this world, yummm. My partner gets Mr. cranky pants when he has to do the mowing. He’s good with the housework when I ask him to help out, his toilet on the other hand… I won’t touch it so, he knows he has to at least make a good effort to clean it.
My husband has yet to fake an injury to get out of cleaning, but now I’m going to be on the watch for strategically-timed pulled muscles. I adore beer and cheese breads and this one looks incredibly good.
We tend to have “girl jobs & boy jobs” in our family:) Vacuuming & steam mopping fall under the latter……. however he does it his way which is to only do surfaces he can see. If I suggest we move furniture to do edges, window sills, and under cabling it’s done with a little less grace. I stopped short of pointing out to him that all the vacuum accessories were there for a reason:) I have to do all the dusting & hygiene areas (kitchen, ovens, bathrooms etc). I just wish he’d see what needs doing without being asked:)
The bread looks great will give it a go tomorrow along with the wings
How do I attach a photo to you via comments? Or do I send it to you on an email?
How nice and easy! I bet the smell of it baking was enough to lure Mr NQN from the bedroom
My hubby has been making a valiant effort the last 2 months when it comes to cooking and cleaning,I can’t really complain, but I sure do miss vegetables!!!
Hi Roz-Good question! I think it has to be uploaded somewhere and then you can put the direct link up. Or you can email me
yes, my sis tried to get out of housework by feigning lethargy… maybe she was really lethargic… hmm
Sounds so easy – I love it. Happy Australia day Lorraine.
Thank you for this simple, very Aussie, and very tasty looking bread! I know what I am making tomorrow! xx
That looks like an amazingly simple bread to make!
I am the one that gets out of housework all the time and the Boy has to pick up after me *evilgrinz*
How easy is that!
Love your simple bread making tip Lorraine. I’m going to make it tomorrow morning to add to our Australia Day BBQ feast.
No, my man doesn’t try to get out of it. Just the other day, he cleaned the fan just like I asked him. Why am I surprised? Well, I thought he would have forgotten it.
Yum! This looks great! I’ll make it tomorrow for Australia Day BBQ. Hubby is good with housework but 12 year old son frequently suffers from a sore tummy/neck/shoulder/legs at any mention of “chores”
Helping with cooking seems to be an exception, though, coz it’s FUN 
)) think I’ll ask him to help make the beer bread 
Wow – big love today for NQN from AWW.
No knead? How easy… Maybe I can try making this bread one day. Love adding cheese. The flavor must be good when it comes out from the oven. Hmmm looks delish!
That looks so good. Even though I don’t drink beer…
I love to cook with beer, it gave a special flavor to the meal, but never tried to use it on a bread, so I will.
Happy Autralian Day…!!!
Happy Australia Day Lorraine!
I still yet to bake with beer…like the combination of cheese and green onions…very tasty indeed.
Hope you are having a wonderful week
lol, the universal tale of men escaping household chores. I’m not a fan of bread, but that looks yummy.
I want cheese and chives bread right now. I have beer and I have cheese and I have chives. No need to go out in this nasty rainy windy weather up here on the Sunshine Coast.
Well have bread!
My husband has an excuse for everything that has to do with helping out at home. He does the rubbish and that’s pretty much it.
Usually it’s because he has “lots of work to do” but mostly it’s because he’s lazy and selfish when it comes to chores. I love him to bits so I ignore him and hire people to do his share. He doesn’t complain about the money and I don’t nag him to help. Peace.
Haha naw, poor Mr NQN! Paul usually acts like a martyr as if he does all the housework – I seem to always get stuck with the crappy jobs though
This bread is brilliant! So simple, I’m making it ASAP. Thanks for sharing!
Funny story!! I don’t like to drink beer but love the flavour it gives to food. This reminds me I must try a few more recipes this year involving beer. I have a cookbook dedicated to it
Yum yum yum, that looks so simple to make and I’m sure even more delicious to eat. My mum is Italian and my boyfriends background is Italian too so we are all massive carb fans, bread being our number one choice in snack food, so I can only imagine how much more love we’d have for it when it’s also filled with cheese. I shall be making this very soon indeed
xx
What a beautiful loaf! Happy Australia day, Lorraine!
Looks delish! Missed reading about your adventures. Have a great (albiet rainy) Australia day!
I just put a loaf of this bread in the oven to take to an Aussie Day BBQ tomorrow.
As for housework, do what I do Lorraine and pay someone else to do it!
My partner NEVER does the housework, it’s so annoying. For crying out loud, just because he’s imaginary…
Love beer bread! And cheeeeeeese!
I would like to try this for Australia Day … but I do find that beer bread often has a sour aftertaste. Am I doing something wrong? And yes, I do find men have a mysterious habit of coming down with Man Flu or injuring themselves with there is housework to be done …)
Okay, are we married to the same man, or have I asked you this before? JP just somehow, mysteriously threw out his shoulder and hurt his neck. Hmmm. And this bread is fabulous!! Been meaning to make something similar and now yours will definitely be inspiring mine! Delicious!
Jamie-I just read out your comment to Mr NQN and he just smiled and said “Good on ‘im!”
Beer and bread go perfectly well together, add cheese and well, it’s heaven!
E vaccumed once. I took a photo. It was such a momentous occasion. No one ever takes a photo of me vaccumming. It is just everyday!
Which is why he is now washing dishes and I am at my computer!
Love beer bread – never made it with cheese and onion but I should – sounds delicious and I agree that it would go down well at any australia day celebration. Now I best get back to work
When I get bored I bake too.
Aren’t those coincidences interesting? Saturday is our food shopping day too of course. I guess it was good that this happened, so you just HAD to make this bread. Happy Australia Day!
Sounds like a terrific recipe. Love your additions. Off to Google Australia Day. xoxo Mum
Happy Australia Day!!
Our hubby’s share similar traits — hopefully he feels better soon
Absolutely love beer in cooking, Lorraine and this one is going on the list for baking this weekend. It sounds absolutely fantastic! Happy Australia Day too!
JT is not a happy cleaner, but then again, I am not happy about him cleaning either! Being rather a perfectionist, we hired a cleaner because I can actually criticize them when they don’t do a good job!
I’ve had beer marinated steak before! Lovely
I’ve been thinking of true blue aussie food to make for our bbq today, but honestly we’ll be having things like quinoa and mexican corn! haha. oh well, at least the bbq is aussie. this bread would take the cake, though 
Heidi xo
Cooked it for lunch yesterday. Fantastic!!
…oh, I am so doing this today.
I might just use it as my (cheating) example that I am over my terror at bread-baking.
Yum this looks delicious! And easy!
I love any kind of no knead bread! so easy! but taste absolutely delicious all the same!
Happy Australia Day!! =D hope that Mr NQN is feeling better!
Yum… off to make some and bugger the men!
Hope you gave Mr NQN a nice neck massage to boot!
Despite my stuff up (no self raising so baking powder – only I added 3 teaspoons of baking powder instead of 6) it was a very yummy damper – we used it as the basis for a ploughmans lunch. Thanks, will use again and hopefully not mess it up next time!
whoops that should have read “used plain flour with the addition of baking powder…”
i have to say that i love the scallion bit even more than the cheese and beer! lovely bread, lorraine.
Wonderful Leanne!! Made it yesterday – as did half my friends as I shared the recipe with them – a new Aus Day tradition for my husband and I for sure!
YAY! Made this yesterday with my 12 year old son….a great success! I was thinking of variations – sundried tomatoes, olives….my son suggested jelly beans which made me wonder if a sweet beer bread is possible? (probably not jelly beans but how about raspberries?)
Your husband sounds exactly like mine when it comes to vacuuming. He’s never pulled the neck trick, though. But I’ll be on guard now for it. Hah.
Thanks so much for the idea to make this for Australia day. I used Coopers Pale Ale and Mersey Valley cheese which gave a really good, strong taste. Only bad thing was I failed to take note of your comment on the cheese sticking. I made one in a silicone loaf tin and it turned out better than one I could possibly buy at a bakery. My glass loaf tin, well…. Let’s just say that loaf went to my mum and the good one went with me to the Australia Day party. Thanks again!
Hi everyone! I’m so glad that you tried it and liked it! I can’t wait to make another (it’s just so nice and easy!)
xxx
Yum!! This looks so delicious and fantastic. Perfect for Australia day with the addition of beer. I’ve only recently gotten into making my own bread and it’s so satisfying to see that loaf come out of the oven.
As for getting out of housework, my fiance tries to do it all the time. He only has two jobs around the house, which he claims he forgets to do. One is folding the washing, and we end up with a mountain of washing waiting to be folded, but apparently he “forgets to do it” despite seeing the mountain waiting. In the end I usually do it. The other job is vacuuming…..which also gets forgotten despite some not so subtle reminders.
My boyfriend and I have a good system, I look after the inside of the house, he looks after the outside. I wash his laundry if he’s put it in the laundry, if it remains on the floor all week then it doesn’t get washed and come sunday night when he needs work clothes he has to wash them in a panic. Cooking dinner we alternate each night so that you get every second night off. Whoever cooks dinner does the dishes. It works well and doesn’t result in fights or resentment because we both know the rules
Seriously, eva you are EVA-L. That’s a very, very, very mean thing to say, you should be ashamed. How would you like it if you were in their shoes and why do you assume that all cleaners are bad at what they do? If you were any good, you’d be doing it yourself instead of being a lazy prat.
I made this last night and it worked. Tasted fantastic.
I will use this recipe again and again , thanks.
I love this bread. so savory!!!!I did not have green onions so used regular onions.It is delicous thank you
I love this bread very easy to prepare
Hi Rick and June-I’m SO glad that you liked it and thanks for letting us know what you thought of it! Have a great weekend!
Just beautiful…if you like your top not quite so crusty, cover with aluminium foil & remove for the last 5-10 mins of cooking for a light crust!
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