Recipes that use beer?

[wshaffer]

So, one of the things that became apparent when I was unpacking the kitchen was that we have too much beer. See, every time we have a party, we buy beer, and we always buy a bit more than our guests actually drink. And we don't drink it ourselves. So, I've decided that I need to cook with it.

I have a couple of recipes for chili that use some beer, and zellandyne and I once concocted a beef braised with mustard and beer that was very tasty. And my mother has a tasty recipe for beer bread that I should get from her. But beyond that, I'm looking for ideas. Any of y'all out there have favorite recipes that use beer?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

markgritter boils brats in beer before cooking them.

[amoken.livejournal.com]

Yes. These are Good.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

Amen. And I am so sad I can no longer eat them (on either the brats or the beer count).

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

...and mrissa has a Guinness gingerbread recipe that might work with other stouts (if your stock does not include any Guinness.)

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Makes a great addition to chili.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I recently marinated some bison chuck stew meat in approximately 40-40-10 beer, apple cider, and soy sauce with minced garlic and ginger to whim. Marinate 2-6 hours, brown meat, simmer 2-3 hours in marinade. Serve with roasted vegetables.

I assume it would work just as well with beef. I am torn between being charmed that I can buy bison meat and mildly dismayed that I can buy bison meat.

[brooksmoses]

Does it help the mild dismay any to know that the bison are probably farm-raised just like regular beef cows, rather than being taken from wild herds? There's a bison ranch in West Virginia, just over the mountain from my mom's farm.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Oh, certainly these are farm-raised bison. I haven't looked to see where they're raised, but I assume it's just a few miles north of Seattle, where I've seen buffalo roaming just like cows.

I should probably be less dismayed to eat bison than to eat cow, since bison is less damaging to pasturage than cow is. It's a non-specific aethestic dismay, probably related to weird old misbegotten romantic notions of the wild west.

[brooksmoses]

Ah, that sort of dismay. I can understand that.

[brooksmoses]

Beer-based batter for deep-frying fish is fairly traditional; I expect it would work pretty well for vegetables as well.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm...if I can get over my Fear of Frying, I'll have to try that.

[sbuchler.livejournal.com]

Irish beef stew or lamb stew! Yum! :-)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

A slew of beer recipes at About.com. The Cherry Beer Cake looks particularly intriguing.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Oooh - I could certainly use up the beer stash working my way through those. The Cherry Beer Cake does look good, as does the Chocolate Porter cake.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

You can also use beer for a rinse for your hair. I haven't tried it but have heard it does good things.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

My mother tried the beer hair rinse thing back when she was in college, I think. She had beautiful hair, but smelled like a brewery.