Robin’s Healthy Take: Cooking With Beer
Depending on your age, St. Patrick’s Day has different meanings. For my kids, it means dressing up in green, eating green scrambled eggs for breakfast and drinking green water. When I was single and living in Philadelphia, it meant jumping on a drinking bus and hopping from Irish bar to Irish bar all day long. Now, I enjoy watching my kids celebrate while I find creative ways to cook with beer! Beer lends a wonderful depth to all kinds of dishes, and it’s a super-affordable way to spruce up a meal. Check out some of my favorites.
Cooking With Beer Cooking with beer is like cooking with wine — the alcohol cooks off, and what’s left is the flavor of each brew. Below are some of my favorite beer-and-food combinations, but experiment with your own. Wheat beer will leave a nutty tone, dark berry will be sweeter and molasses-like, lighter beers are slightly floral and mild. Learn more about cooking with beer »
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