The Meat & Potato Burger
Tonight we decided to talked another 30 minute meal. Seen on the May 10th Rachael Ray Show with Craig Ferguson, the girls and I felt like burgers, and chose the ‘manly’ Meat & Potato Burger. We’re meat and potato kinda people, and so this clearly looked like the one! The boy was at a friend’s house, the girl at Softball practice, so that meant the Pup and I would throw together this meal on a bun.
Here are the listed ingredients - and what we added/changed.
2 large baking potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup of heavy cream or half and half
Salt and pepper
2 pounds lean ground sirloin
2 tablespoons Worcestershire
1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped
1/2 small onion, grated
4 poppy seed Kaiser rolls
A couple of tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 bunches watercress, cleaned and trimmed of thick stems
Our changes - We added garlic. Because you cannot have too much garlic. And we grated the onion, a little, then gave up and chopped it. Dried parsley, as we have few fresh choices up here, and there were no poppy seed rolls, so we used cheese/onion Kaiser rolls instead.
It took 45 minutes to make, as again - I had an 8 year old helper. Who clearly LOVED helping…
Everything was easy to do, and it came together pretty quickly. However, apparently, I have spoiled my kids, as the burgers just “Weren’t as good as your meatloaf burgers, mom. These are ok? But done with YOUR recipe for burgers would have been better.”
[Remind me to double their allowances. Heh.]
So, our general review is that the recipe is alright, but could have been better. Definitely add something to the potatoes to give it more flavor - cheese, perhaps, a little more salt/pepper, something. Rating 1-5, it received a solid 3 across the board and a request not to bother with watercress again, and to use my own burger stuff.
It was, however, very filling. Hours later I’m still full.
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