I've never posted my own recipes on this site because I don't want to take responsibility for ruining any of your meals. Some or many of you probably follow recipes down to the exact measurements. Unfortunately, no recipe of mine can be trusted as is. You'll need to cook the way I cook -- with utter abandon and a strong desire to improvise. Because of this, you'll also need to be okay with sometimes (or often) ruining a perfectly good recipe when you go overboard with the improv.
The other night, I whipped up a burger mixture that produced the best darn burgers I have ever made in my life. So, despite my reservations, I'm going to share the recipe with you. If you decide to try some of these ingredients in your next cook-out, just remember to trust your own taste over my shoddy instructions.
Burgers of awesomeness
Ingredients:
- A few handfuls of lean ground meat
- 1 onion, very finely chopped
- 5 (or 6, or 7) garlic cloves, very finely chopped
- Dried basil (maybe a teaspoon or so?)
- A few (or ten) dashes of cayenne
- Dried rosemary (a tablespoon or so?)
- Tons of freshly-ground pepper
- Salt to taste
Directions:
Basically, you mix all the stuff in a bowl, form the entire mixture into little patties, and grill them.
The secret is that I ground the onion and garlic cloves into smithereens in my mini-food processor. Not just chopped finely with a knife. I ground them to smithereens. Incorporating the onion/garlic smithereens and the dry ingredients into the ground meat produced incredibly juicy, nuanced burgers. At least I thought so, and so did Chuck.
Grilling season hath begun!
