Friday, May 27, 2011

Slider Experimentation

Left side: The patty is ground beef mixed together with garlic & onion, salt & pepper and Parmesan Cheese. There is a salt & peppered tomato slice with a slice of pickle for some bite, garlic sauteed mushrooms and a slice of avocado. The bun is a Kaiser roll that was toasted with butter on it and a sauce combination of ketchup, mustard and mayo.
Right side: The patty consists of a mixture of ground beef with an herb blend that I honestly am not sure about because my dad makes it and uses it in a vegetable soup that he makes. I think it's something along the lines of chives, cilantro, basil and maybe some others. Also in the patty mixture is garlic, onion, salt & pepper and another vegetable mixture but this mixture is pickled and instead has carrots, eggplant and other similar vegetables. It is a typical side dish that is eaten with persian food called "Torshi" tends to be sour. The burger has allt he same items as the previous but has a different sauce on it. I mixed a bit of the "Torshi" with some mayonnaise and spread that on the bread.

The Left side burger was good but didn't have enough cheese in the meat. The Right side burger though tasted really good with the vegetable blend in the meat. The vegetable's did not over take the patty but instead brought a really nice flavor to the burger patty. The mayonnaise sauce was ok; but for both burgers I think what was missing was a cheese. I'm not sure what really but I think the vegetable blend meat patty is worth experimenting with more.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Persian food

Not sure what it's called, however it doesn't have to have a name to be good. This something I made by watching someone else make it once before. Really good, over rice, it is chicken, potatoes and carrots cooked in a tomato based sauce with onion, saffron, cumin and salt & pepper. Sooo good.