Super Bowl snacks-cooking with Newcastle Brown Ale

I’ve heard that cooking with beer can be a tasty sauté, but I never have done it until this week.   My thought was that if I cook with beer and don’t like it, then it’s a waste of beer.   Factor in that it would be a potential waste of a good beer and that’s a bad thing indeed.

First off, thanks to Newcastle Brown Ale for hooking me up with a six pack of beer.  My blogging standards are not that cheap, but given the chance to experimentally cook and drink alcohol we do work on a sliding scale.  Now, on with the Super Bowl snack that will make your mouth love you as much as your tongue when it goes “la la la la”.

A simple Google search for ‘food recipes with Newcastle Brown Ale’ led me to a mega delicious way to sauté beef.  The recipe says it’s for beef, but we did it with pork and our taste buds are still thanking us.

Here is most of the recipe that I found at Cookerati.

• 12-ounce bottle Newcastle Brown Ale
• 1 tablespoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

You’ll also have to add some honey and garlic, but for the complete recipe dig their website.  It’s only fair to fully attribute them for introducing me to this lovely mixture of nutty and spicy.

Take all that deliciousness and put it in a plastic bag with your meat.

Let it marinate for at least 2 hours then cook.  The recipe says grill the meat and in an ideal world we would’ve, but we didn’t have any charcoal so it went in the oven.

At first taste it was OK, but then I added just a bit more hot sauce and Worcestershire Sauce.  After that the dish took off and was the perfect combination of spicy, without beating down the flavor that the meat brings.

My wife said it was ‘amazing’ and that the flavor just ‘jumped into her mouth’. For me it was like a good movie in that you think about it a while after you finish it.  Oh, it was that yummy.

True, we did use a beer in making the recipe, but it wasn’t a waste.

If you’re having a Super Bowl party and want a taco salad with some POP, take the pork and shred it on top of the nachos.  You could use the pork like we did and make little sandwiches too.  Either way it’s win/win and will wake up your taste buds.