You can refrigerate this dressing for up to a week. Naturally, beer is bitter - if you use sweeter ingredients like a caramelized onion or corn, beer will work great. To avoid an overly bitter dish, add only a small amount at a time and keep tasting. Also, the more the beer cooks down, the more intense its flavor gets, so add it in the end. The yeast in beer is perfect for baking, add beer to breads, pancakes, or muffins, it makes for a fluffy texture and nice crust.
Beer also works great in tenderizing meats, and it's good for marinades.
Vegetable oil is best for frying, and the oil should be between 350 to 375 degrees, don't overcrowd the pan. A good old brown paper bag is still the best thing to use to drain your fried ingredients on. Wild Rice Wild rice is not really rice, it's the seed of a grass. When you prepare it, forget everything you know about cooking rice, because it's not the same thing. Wild rice is native to North America, and Native Americans were eating it long before settlers brought white rice here.