Best burger ever!

Best burger I've ever had!

We decided to make home made burgers on Monday night. I found this recipe by The Pioneer Woman. It was really easy to make and delicious. Here are my summerised steps:

1. Mix: beef (about 300g enough for 3 burgers for us) + 1/2 t salt +1/4 t pepper + Tabasco

2. Onion:
Low heat - 2T butter + sliced onions + 2T brown sugar
20 min

3. Spicy mayo:
1/4 c mayo + Tabasco

4. Toast rolls (either on a grill on on top of the toaster)

5. Form patties and grill over med - low heat

6. Spread spicy mayo on rolls + patty + onions + greens

We had some left over pepper sauce from our steak night before. I don't usually like pepper sauce but I couldn't get enough of this one. It's good. Here's an approximate recipe for that. It's by Jamie Oliver. Andre found it so you can google if you like to measure things out. I don't.

In a small saucepan heat cream, white wine, beef stock, dijon mustard and ground black pepper.

That's it.

You wanted more? You can thicken it with cornflour if you want.

Pepper sauce on steak night

After all this meat we're going vegetarian for a few days to recover. We're not used to eating so much meat anymore. Andre actually felt a bit ill the day after the steak. I only managed about a third of the  steak pictured above. So we had a vegetable only stir-fry last night. I'm having the left overs for lunch now. It's a bit garlicky so so you can be glad I'm typing and not telling you this!!

Roast beef - another one by André

We haven't had red meat since arriving here in der Schweiz. That's almost 2 months ago now. Well, André has some good lunches at work so he probably has had some, but we haven't bought any. It's only been chicken and veg and lots of pizza and pasta.

So yesterday we went to Sihlcity, a shopping mall in Zurich and the COOP there is huge! At first I got excited about seeing such a big grocery store, but then it got a bit overwhelming. I'm not used to so many choices anymore! And it took a long time. But then shopping with André usually takes a long time and we end up buying lots more than what's

on the grocery list. So that's how we ended up buying this great piece of meat. Sorry to the vegetarians.. We don't eat meat often but once in a while a good piece of meat is sooo good!

Doing a roast is not my specialty so I'm not even going to go into details about what Andre did. I enjoy cooking and I actually want to be busy doing something. Making a roast you just put the meat in the oven and wait. Ok, with some spices etc, but still, there's not much going on.

But it was oh so good! I'm already looking forward to having the left overs for lunch!

Andre's invention

When we came back from our weekend away at Engelberg André volunteered to cook dinner. I was his assistant. We had some potatoes that needed to be eaten and quite a variety of veggies in the fridge. So André put it all together and made us a delicious meal. He's quite good at cooking and his food is always delicious :-) Here's what he did:

He fried an onion and some garlic (always onion and garlic!) then added one chopped chicken breast. When the chicken was cooked he added some zucchini, chilli and mushrooms. I boiled the peeled potatoes. Made a mushroom sauce using half a packet of mushroom soup powder, mixed with milk and white wine. Poured this over the ingredients in the pan. It got quite thick so we added some water to get the right consistency. André is quite particular about how thick a sauce should be...

When the ingredients in the pan had done enough bubbling in the sauce, André arranged the sliced potatoes in the bottom of an oven dish.

Poured the veggie-chicken-mushroom sauce over the potatoes and arranged the rest of the potatoes over the top.

He added some salami and grated cheese.

In the oven until the cheese starts turning golden brown.

Mmmm... a good invention! I just had the left overs for lunch!