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Gluttony Burger

Gluttony Burger

This is more a tale of generosity combined with an excess of food humour and low Vitamin D levels! Not a recipe as such.

The generosity element is derived from a large tray of products we were given and which has kept us in high quality Meat, Fish and Cheese for the best part of this month. We generally try to give more than we take however we have several friends who are connected with various Food Banks. Sometimes we are offered vegetables and bread which is well past its use by date and is destined for composting. If we can salvage it we are always grateful. But this was something a bit different for us. When items which need refrigeration are donated to Food Banks they can present problems. When things like Veal, Venison, Aberdeen Angus Beef, Sea Bass and high quality Cheese are donated they really do create issues. Much appreciated as I’m sure they were. Dried and ambient produce is much easier for them to store and distribute. So when a friend offered us a green catering crate of goodies we were extremely grateful.  The food humour element and Vitamin D levels refer to our best solution to the winter blues. Laughter is the best cure and the enjoyment of cooking together is at least 50% of the benefit of a good meat!

So let’s not be too wordy here. When we ran the Bistro Sue’s hand pressed Bistro Burgers were a major part of the menu and people travelled considerable distances to try our rotating specials. We had a pack of Aberdeen Angus minced Beef in the goodie tray and time on our hands.

Ingredients:-

Gluten free bread bun which was the frozen result of a Tony error and was initially supposed to be a Pizza base!
Home Made Marie Rose Sauce.
Hand cut Salad.
4 Hand pressed Burgers.
Sliced Gherkins.
4 Eggs
4 rashers of Bacon.
Chilli Cheese slices.
1 Polish Smoked Sausage.
1 Large white Onion (For Onion Rings)

Method:-

(1) Wing it.
(2) Laugh a lot.
(3) Enjoy over 2 days!

Joking aside the assembly of the various layers in your burger really are up to you. But that monstrosity you see on the top was part of the joke. “Shall I batter the last Polish Sausage and use it as a centre for the Onion Rings?” - Is the sort of conversation only we have in the kitchen I guess?

Although this truly was a “Gluttony Burger“ all we actually bought specifically for it were the Cheese Slices, A Cannonball Onion and a Tomato. So technically we did shoehorn this into our budget!!!!!

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Seafood Pasta

We’ve had very modest meats over the Christmas period so we allowed ourselves a bit of a budget breaking treat for New Years Day. The Pasta is actually Rice Noodles, from the Chinese Supermarket, but we won’t tell if you don’t!

Ingredients:-

1 Red Pepper – Char grilled under the grill,  skinned and chopped
A handful of fresh Parsley, roughly chopped
1 Red Chilli, chopped
2 Cloves of Garlic, mincedIngredients:-
Mixed Seafood (Prawns, Mussels and White Clams in ours)
Chorizo, thinly cubed
Chickpeas, soaked oven night and then boiled
The juice and zest of a Lemon
1 Lemon quartered, to garnish
Mushrooms, finely sliced
Olive Oil
1 medium Onion, finely sliced
2 Spring Onions, chopped
Rice Noodles

Method:-

(1) Fry the Onion and Garlic to soften.Method:-
(2) Boil your Seafood two pans of water. One for the Seafood and one for the Noodles.
(3) Add the Chilli, Chorizo and Chickpeas and fry for a minute or two.
(4) Add the Seafood to a pan of boiling water and allow the water to return to the boil for a minute.
(5) In the frying pan add the Red Pepper, half of the Spring Onion and Mushroom.
(6) Add the Noodles to the remaining pan of boiling water and allow to soften. Remove and drain.
(7) Drain your Seafood and stir into the frying pan (Or Wog) if you have one.
(8) Plate the Noodles in a sort of nest style.
(9) Add the Seafood etc. and a good amount od cooking juices.
(10) Squeeze the Lemon over the top and dress with the Lemon zest, Parsley and remaining Spring Onions.
(11) Garnish with a Lemon quarter.

Seafood and Chorizo work really well together and considering that this was quite a sizeable portion we both polished it off last night!

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