Not terribly exciting, but I tried a couple of new techniques over the weekend that I think worked well.
Beer fried onions:
Melt 2tbsp butter + 2tbsp olive oil in a nonstick skillet.
Turn to lowest setting, add sliced onions (I did 4, was using red onions)
Add salt (1-2tsp)
Leave for an hour
Turn to med/hi, add cayenne (2tsp) and a little white sugar (1-2tsp)
Stir until the onions are about the color you want.
Add beer (about 2oz, I used Coors Light since I had it and probably won't be drinking it)
Turn to high
Stir continuously until most of the beer has cooked off.
Beer Brats
I did this on the grill (charcoal)
Boiled fresh brats (
Sheboygan from Costco) for about an hour on the grill in a mixture of beer, onions and a little butter (my cast-iron pan held 4 cans of beer and 12 brats and easily fit on my Weber)
Then I took them out of the pan to brown them.
They ended up being crispy/brown on the outside and incredibly tender on the inside.