Anybody like hamburgers? Of course you do.

My wife grabs a jalapeno pepper and slices it on the length to stretch it across her burgers. I prefer tomato or her salsa. The jalopeno is just a tad too tough for my innards.

 

A friend went to New York City.Said it was great.At two in the morning,in Times Square,you can get any kind of food you could think of.And have it delivered.You want a Mongolian dinner with a Pakistani desert,it'll show up at the door...There's just one thing they DON'T have,and what they do have doesn't really come close.They DON'T have Double-doubles with grilled onions. Once you've had a Double-double with grilled onions,all other burgers pale in comparison...

 

The guy in the article needs to use an all in one BBQ cooker, that is the unit has the grill, hot plate & a wok burner. No need to go inside for cooking onions, eggs etc!

Well guys, it is and isn't.
The influence of the pineapple & beetroot is more what you may get in Queensland (Northen Australia). Mayo is not common at all. Down south, in states like Victoria (my original home state) it's more traditional.


*please keep in mind that there are approx 6 build grades for a burger* Top of the line we simply call it a Hamburger with the lot!! The hamburger was built as follows

• Toasted (on the hot plate) bread roll base
• Lettuce (shredded) & tomato sauce(ketchup)
• Slices of tomato (add salt)
• The beef pattie (another recipie in itself)
• Grilled bacon
• Grilled onion
• Grilled egg (not usually sunny side up)
• Toasted (on the hot plate) bread roll base
• **The variations of cheese, beetroot and pineapple are added anywhere in between, however I suggest the beetroot go between the lettuce &tomato as compliment to your taste experience. The pineapple should be after the beef but before the egg, so that the top of the bread roll doesn't absorb the juices.

For flavour enhancement you can use different sauces on the different layers, eg; BBQ sauce, Chilli sauce, Mayo etc but not too much.

With the 'boutique burger' places you will get many variations. One that is coming into play (and I can't stand it) is the addition of shredded carrots!!
Personally I think the carrot destroys the burger.
Roo meat is making a presence in the supermarkets, but I'm still not 'game' to try it.
I keep seeing it as our national symbol

I read an intersting article some time ago about a 'death burger' down here I think it was in the Sunday Mmail or Courier Mail here in Brisbane. The 'HOT' peppers and sauces they used actually had the heat ratings which were astounding.
This the video link to the death burger!! (Please wait for the ad & intro then it will start)
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&vid=c3c7463f-e7ca-42c0-92b1-7819d616afb5

 

Thanks, GMWAGN.
I'll try almost anything once.

 

I'm not sure about beats either, that would be like a chicken and coly flower pizza( I have seen that) but I have had a ring of grilled pinnaple on a burger, onions, tomato, and sweet 'n sour bbq sauce, no cheese and it was pritty good. Never craved another but it was good.

One of the best burgers I've had was the simplest, roll 2 balls of lean ground beef and dip one into a plate of plain table salt and pepper, then press ( don't mix/mash) the 2 balls of meat together. Wipe the grill with olive oil a grill away. When done put one slice of onion on a plain bun and thats it! All you need is a can of pop or beer with it, very moist/juicy burger, lots of flavor.

Oh Baby, we have a few fish n' chips places here that the artery buster burgers are to die for

I'm to stay away from ground beef because of the fat content, even lean ground beef has a fat content up to 26%. I've burgered ground turkey and it's pritty darn good( 4-8% fat from my butcher) and ground Bison (buffalo) is pritty darn good ( 6% fat). Mixing the 2 together makes a good burger also. I'm suposed to stay at a max 4% fat content in my food but theres only so much raw carrots and rice cakes I can take but I am aloud very sparingley to brake the rules but have to be careful....yet I'm still fat!

Heres my burger mix...

MEAT,
diced oinions, diced red,orange,yellow, and green pepers, minced garlic, some beer (not any more), pack of onion soup mix and other seasonings (your choice), mix well and refrigarate for 4-6 hours, then make your patties and BBQ, you don't have to let it sit but the flavors really come out if you do.


In my late teens/early 20's there was a restaunt called the Culture Cow, they had a 1.5 lb Burger when they opened, seved a huge bun with a mountain of wedge fries and a side salad. If you could eat every thing in a time period, youd eat for free. I finnished the whole platter once but not in the time aloud. I was done for the day, I remember my girl friend having to drive me home...I was a couch creature for the rest of the day

 

Tedy, you're probably on a doctor-specified menu, but you should look at Mexican/Latin American diets. It's tough to find overweight people. Lots of cornmeal stuff like fresh tortillas, chopped tomatoes, cilantro, finely chopped goat (roasted), mole sauce (made with roasted cocoa beans) the cornmeal adapts well to enchiladas, tostitos. Vary with chopped lettuce, parsley. Cheap to make, and nummers without the gain.

Some good cookbooks around at Chapters. We've got a few titles. Most are in Spanish, but we bought a few that even surprised my wife about how authentic they were and how the cooks used other Canadian/US ingredients to substitute for Mexican ones.

 

Mole sauce...OK, I'll try any thing once How many of these do I need? Do you just put them in a blender a heat?
http://www.kwik-pest.co.uk/~pest/images/stories/moles 049.jpg


Back to serious,,,,I've eaten roasted goat before, it's good and I guess it would be a low fat content,,,but trying to find it here. Even Bison is a hit and miss and I've not been able to get a roast unless I travel half a day.

Almost all the wraps, tortias , etc I can find have a fat content I cannot eat. There is a wiet watchers wrap (zero fat) that I can have and there not too bad, but there so small I end up making a several just to fill up
I'll definatly look into the Mex/Latin diets. It's funny though, even some things I'm aloud to eat my body says.."I'm gona make you pay for this"

 

mol eh! not mole.

There were a lot of hippy colonies that raised goats on your rock. Open pit spit roasted whole goat is 'too die for'. melts in your mouth.

Homemade Tortillas only have a bit of corn oil on the cast iron griddle maybe a tablespoon, to make about 4 dozen. All they are is Maizeca cornflour and water.

There's some tricks to making humane salsa. Gently fry some yellow peppers (jalapeno), tomatilloes (strawberry tomatoes), chopped cilantro, a pinch of salt (sea salt), then put it all into a small pot and add enough water for the peppers and tomatilloes to just float and let them come to a boil, simmer for an hour and run them into the blender.

We freeze a batch of tortillas for variety during the week. They'll keep for 3 months, if you want to make that many.

Bunellos are made similarly to a tortilla, then deep fried and coated with liquid honey from the fryer to the dip pan. How many fat-making calories in that? In mexico that is the all time favourite for an energy boost, without a sugar rush.

 

Yeah, open pit spit, thats how I've had goat, lamb, and pig...dam good eatings. Even had a pig roasted "in" the beach. A hole was dug, fire started and when the coals ( lots) were ready they were covered in kelp from the ocean, baby pig put on and covered in kelp, alum foil, then covered in sand to make it an oven. I could'nt believe how good it tasted.

May have to try the Tortillas, seams real eazy but I'm still not sure about the Halipinos..

I'm trying to get some mouse meat, thats a dam good burger..If your OK with a game flavor, I am.

 

Mickey Mouse Burgers....

How about these??

http://current.com/items/77535841_mickey-mouse-burgers-evil-or-cute.htm

 

I got the title wrong. This video may show how crazy (or stupid) some Aussies might be:
This is the video link to the MEGA death burger!! (Please wait for the ad & intro then it will start)
MEGA DEATH BURGER

 

Thanks for that, GMWAGN.
The hottest burger in the world: From Austrailia, where men are crazy, and sheep are nervous.

 

I thought that was Greece.

 

It appears to be spreading.
You DON'T want to visit Texas!

 

I wanna say something, but I'd PHDed - Piled Higher and Deeper!