I highly recommend cooking with beer. For this style of cooking (which I make up as I go along), get a wok. The wok is phenomenal.

I like to throw two pieces of chicken breast in my wok. The best beer I’ve ever cooked with is Smithwicks (pronounced “Smitticks” or “Smithicks,” don’t sound like an ass at the beer store). Throw in some garlic and my personal favorite Old Bay powder (this is also the secret ingredient to my Bloody Mary’s.) Cover it up and, if you are like me, cook it until you see black on the edges.

If you are feeling really ambitious, boil some pasta, throw a canned white sauce on it and then cut up the chicken and mix it all together. People will think you knew what the hell you were doing when in reality you threw a bunch of stuff in and heated it up.

It’s good stuff, but trust me your girlfriend will catch on that you do the same thing every time. Screw her, she should move out anyway. But, I digress.