IF YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE GETTING SOME NO-CARBOHYDRATE, VEGAN, LOW FAT, LOW LIFE KIND OF BURGER HERE, please go now!
I will not help you if you stay.
Now, I seem to recall the "burger ghost".
This fellow fell onto the railroad track of life when he just decided that it was time to go. He lived a full, prosperous and wonderful life, with no great tragedies...
...except one. He married well and for life. His wife was a delightful woman who reared his four perfect children, who kept his home with a mastery that a prosperous man was lucky to have available to him, and who never asked for more than she was entitled to.
As her charmed life prevailed, his lovely wife outlived him by twenty years, enjoying her perks and her growing brood of grand and great grandchildren.
So, the "Burger Ghost" should have been happy to pass on and join his beloved....
This is someone's photobucket picture of the perfect burger with a sweet potato bun! A sweet potato bun!
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 pound super lean ground sirloin
1/2 pound super lean ground pork
4 tblsp canola oil
pepper and salt to taste
carmelized onion and roasted garlic
1 tsp paprika
smoky flavor (liquid smoke or smoked spice) to taste
1 tblsp worchestershire sauce
1 pound toasted sliced baby portobello mushrooms
4 huuuge tomato slices, drained
4 slices of red onion
4 slices monterey jack cheese, and not the cheap stuff, either.
Hamburger bun of choice, large.
1/2 cup sulfite free red wine
condiments of your choice
Mix the meat, pepper, salt, paprika, smokey flavor and worchestershire sauce. Form in to four patties that are exactly the size of the bun.
Saute in the canola oil. If thick, I prefer a fast sear to create a crust, then slower cooking to a medium, non bloody state. the juices caramalize and it just has to be too good to be true. If thin, then they're not worth it.
Remove the burgers and let them rest. Deglaze the pan with the red wine and add 1/2 of the toasted mushrooms. Reduce juice to about half.
Then assemble the burger with additions of choice (don't forget the rest of the toasted mushrooms), and try to help yourself, because you will fall into a trance.
Best served with the kind of fries that have the crispity outside and the fluffy, creamy insides.
Oh my. I hurt my own feelings.
Oh! The Burger Ghost...yeah...hmmm what happened?
The only dissatisfaction in the Burger Ghosts life, was that his beloved wife was not his true love! The Burger Ghost longed and pined and worshiped from afar, but never, not once did he make his true desires known.
The true love of his life was a woman who first came to the family estate as a very young nurse, his own age in fact, who tended his father, then stayed on as nanny to his two much younger siblings. She stayed on to tend to his infant children.
And never, once, did they behave in an untoward fashion. Not even when the sweet perfume of many Springs, the moonlight nights of many Summers, or the smoky haze of many Autumns overwhelmed them.
The nurse married and started her own boisterous family. When her husband reached his own prosperity, he demanded that she stop working. But she remained a part of the extended family, as a much loved "Auntie". Her children and grandchildren were regarded as "cousins".
And when he died, the Burger Ghost remained, wandering the halls and gardens and fields of his estate, waiting patiently for his unrequited love, looking out for his children and grandchildren, and showing up whenever someone had a cookout.
One fine day, word went out that "Auntie" had passed away. She just fell out from a massive stroke and died instantly.
This word came during the latest cookout. The giant, juicy burgers were already on the grill, and everyone was waiting for "Grandpa's Ghost", who they dubbed the "Burger Ghost".
But were they ever shocked when grandpa's ghost showed up.
"The Burger Ghost got's a girlfriend!" the youngest member of the family yelled, just as the word was spreading about "Aunties" sudden passing away.
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