Happy National Cheeseburger Day!
Who doesn’t love a good burger? When I wasn’t eating meat
for a little while, I ate plenty of veggie burgers but none of them come close
to satisfying a craving for a real old fashioned beefy cheeseburger.
Burgers are an ultimate comfort food for me. When I want to
eat my feelings, I usually look for a burger piled with toppings and dripping
with juice and sauce. French fries are just a plus. The burger is enough to
make my mouth water and my eyes close with tasty enjoyment. I even have a separate
binder full of burger recipes so when I want one I can easily look through it
to pick one out. Sooooooooooo good.
So what makes the perfect cheeseburger? I did some looking
around. Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Fine Cooking all agree that you should start
with a ground beef with an 80/20 meat to fat ratio. Usually, we cook with 90/10
ground beef, even for our hamburgers just to save on calories and to cut out
that fat that we don’t really need in our diets. But its national cheeseburger
day! We got a little crazy and didn’t skimp on the fat content for these
burgers!
All three magazines also agreed that you don’t need any
other flavorings for a good burger apart from salt and pepper for seasoning.
You’re topping it with either American or Cheddar cheese. I don’t eat American
cheese if I have a say in the matter. (Food snob, I know.)
Toppings? I like any and all toppings but everyone is
different. My choices for tonight? Bibb lettuce, tomato, sweet onion, thousand island dressing, and dill pickle relish!
As for recipes, we chose Bon Appetit’s BA Burger Deluxe. (With a name like that, how can you go wrong?)
All I did differently apart from the slice of cheddar was
add about a tablespoon of A.1. steak sauce to the meat mixture before we formed
patties. Oh! And I put the buns on the griddle to toast them up :)
Remember to celebrate this terrific and tasty day
responsibly!!
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