Burger
Home-made burger
and a bottle of booze
ain't takeaway
takes away my blues
Handminced rumpsteak with egg, chillipowder, spring onions breadcrumbs, soy sauce,salt, pepper, and a splash of lemon juice burger. Melted cheddar, finely grated beetroot, lettuce, avacado, tomato, mushrooms, and fried onions finished in beer.
It was OK. Could have been hotter but that's what happens when you mess around taking pics.
posted by Anthony at Thursday, August 11, 2005
50 Comments:
when you say "hand minced", do you mean with a chef's knife or with one of the handcrank grinders?
-Elizabeth
8/11/2005 11:14:00 pm
Nothing could be hotter than that picture ...
8/12/2005 04:39:00 am
Hmm - I think that's our dinner sorted for tonight.
8/12/2005 05:54:00 am
Hi ejm
-With a chef's knife, a cleaver is better though. Food processors can make it gluey.
Hey Brandon
-Thank you. I kind of make it up to Toni by giving her the presentation dish while I get the avocado with the thumb gouge in it. I decreased the aperature, flattened the angle and used a tripod to get the pic as sharp as I could so all the bits had equal value.
Hisashiburi Anthonyj
-My instincts make me reach for the can opener but if there's one thing we can learn from japan, it is the fine grating of root vegetables. Ever so inscrutable.
Howdy Amanda
-Having been eaten it is now beyond the realm of the knowable and in the past. Is it a perfect burger for you? Hotness is the quality of a perfect burger, therefore it must be hot. Existence is also a quality of perfection, therefore it must be somewhere. Perhaps it's behind you.
Hola Deborah
Hot hot hot. It would have made it. The tongue burning cheese and meat, soothed by the cool beetroot. A rasher of bacon wouldn't have done any harm either. Let me know how it goes for you.
8/12/2005 07:29:00 am
Mmmmm. I like the grated beets. Special. But that burger patty looks juicy. I'd like to know what kind of bread you used please.
Another special meal here.
8/12/2005 07:42:00 am
Saffy
The bread is just a kaiser roll toasted in a sandwich press. The breadcrumbs are from wholemeal bread popped in a blender.
End of a long day, so I thought fuck it, I'm going to make a burger.
8/12/2005 07:51:00 am
You chose correctly. Often it is the simple, not so fancy. But then again, you used a meat clever to mince the meat rather than drive your car through a fast-food joint. That's pretty good.
8/12/2005 08:15:00 am
Chef's knife, my meat cleaver has a stress fracture.
Mmmmm drive through joy
8/12/2005 09:01:00 am
hngh. sorry chefs knife.
didn't notice the avo' on the side. nice addition. ive got an avo for lunch today - 96c @ the supermarket.
the link didn't work.
8/12/2005 09:38:00 am
Yum. It's only 9:50am but I could go a burger right now.
8/12/2005 09:49:00 am
Chef's knife says no worries, Saffy.
Will work on that link.
Kate
Bilby's does a nice burger.
8/12/2005 10:20:00 am
Yes, we've been visiting Bilby's on the odd hing-over Saturday lunch-time as they're just up the road. Very nice. Good chips too.
8/12/2005 11:38:00 am
That would be hung over not hing over obvs.
8/12/2005 11:38:00 am
Some days I've been honguver
8/12/2005 11:53:00 am
And the beetroot? cooked or uncooked?
That reminds me: grated beet and roquette salad with simple vinaigrette and fresh goat cheese....
Link didn't work first time for me either. Copy link and paste into browser. Nice sky.
8/12/2005 07:40:00 pm
hi anthony, only you could have pulled off such a baroque combination of flavours in a burger with aplomb...cheers,j
8/13/2005 12:36:00 am
EJM
Uncooked, just peeled and grated. I'd recommend a Japanese grater, they have a series of tiny jagged teeth to get it exceedingly fine o/w a parmesan grater. Yay for the salad and I'm going to have to nut out a beetroot pesto I have one day.
Aha on the link.
J
That's just kind and crazy talk, now if I could nail down a rococo burger... : )
8/13/2005 08:16:00 am
Anthony,
That burger looks simply amazing. I never thought of using grated beetroot though. I was actually thinking that you were going to use beetroot slices or some kine of beatroot spread.
8/13/2005 12:22:00 pm
Up and at 'em beetroot boy!
8/13/2005 05:34:00 pm
Hi....five guesses who this is, oh yes nice burger
8/13/2005 07:33:00 pm
Anon.
-Elvis?
Steph
- you are on beach on an island, the sun, is warm, the waves are lapping onto the sand, the is a slightly cooled burger. Yes that would work.
8/14/2005 08:33:00 pm
Super yummy ... makes me hungry
8/14/2005 11:58:00 pm
NO, ha ha. IM TEMPTED TO WIPE THAT ANSWERE OFF AS INVALID!!! YET ELVIS IS SOO COOOL IN THIS HOUSEHOLD ILL LET YOU HAVE IT..... (come on major clue)
8/15/2005 08:53:00 am
Nice name toxicle.
Anon.
Let me see. You are using caps to shout so you must be some distance away, and it is cool where you are...a talking fairy penguin?
8/15/2005 03:26:00 pm
Hi Anthony,
I thought you were going to say something like that! =P
What's the deal with Australians and beetroot anyway? Care to enlighten me?
8/15/2005 05:30:00 pm
Reid
I thought you would think that I would say something like that : )
Beetroot, no problems.
Australians have long had an ambiguous relationship with fresh vegetables. Rural privation seemed to dominate cuisine much as if all American food had been pork and beans. Vegetables tended to be of the three with meat variety. Beetroot had an added advantage as it was commonly available canned. Many would be hard pressed to know what a beetroot looked liked even though they'd seen the evenly sliced rounds hundreds of times before as an accompaniment to cold meat and salad. Tupperware
actually made a container specifically for canned beetroot. It has also gained popularity as a cultural symbol of defiance against American hamburger hegemony as the defining characterstic of an Aussie burger.
It also has the word "root" in it, Australian slang for acts of sexual intercourse. It makes us snigger. Don't get me started on fanny packs.
8/15/2005 08:19:00 pm
oh, sorry about the caps! im hopeless on this keyboard thing,far too many buttons for me....Yet!!!! we are far away.And youve only one more guess...
8/15/2005 09:17:00 pm
I have three more guesses and I'm trying a consonant of M.
8/15/2005 09:29:00 pm
M is close,.. hang on i dont think i want to play anymore
8/15/2005 09:44:00 pm
Of course, why didn't I think of that? A mandolin would be the smart way to grate a beet!! I must admit I'm always a bit nervous though - our Japanese mandolin has a handguard that appears to have been designed to protect a small child's hand from being mutilated.
What on earth is a parmesan grater?? (Clearly our kitchen is lacking.)
beetroot pesto... be still my beating (no pun intended) heart. Please do post more details.
8/15/2005 11:07:00 pm
Anon.
Suit yerself.
EJM
I've lost the protective bit and my Japanese Mandolin scares the bejesus out of me. I can only trust the daikon/beetroot grater.
By parmesan grater I mean the cheese grater part with the smaller holes.
I'll get onto the beetroot pesto.
8/16/2005 04:00:00 pm
Devo, we were wondering what the M stood for???????????
8/16/2005 05:15:00 pm
Mumplestiltskin.
Any rain up north?
8/16/2005 05:29:00 pm
aww Deevvvvoooo, how in the world did you know it was me. Am I THAT predictable!!!!.I was planning on staying anonymous! ..mon
8/16/2005 06:04:00 pm
amon
Well in the general vicinity of Geraldton. I had a pretty good hunch. Sitemeter tells me much. No need to be anonymous, we're all friends here. Welcome to here and hi to Woz.
8/16/2005 08:58:00 pm
You have a specific other implement for grating daikon/beetroot? (I would NEVER use our mandolin without the handguard! Yikes!! ...hmmmm, I wonder if one can buy a replacement handguard for the mandolin. Maybe we could get a handguard for adult-sized hands.)
Looking forward to the pesto.
8/17/2005 03:05:00 am
amonnimouse here. Wozza says a big farmers hi, he is extreamly happy with the rain.How is Toni going,? has her farm had enough rain???? We enjoy your spiceblog site, its funny to see how much people love food!! Im not a big fan of food, Ill eat if I have too. My dad has some amazing recipies from Mauritius, have you heard of Dal puris ? its a pancake made out of chickpeas thats served with vege curry.OH Woza has just said im asking too man questions again, sorry!!!
8/17/2005 02:53:00 pm
Amonimoose
A big G'day with roundhouse handshake to Wozza. Great news about the rain, bit of a lifesaver. Our skylight flew off last night so I was up on the roof this morning. Haven't heard from both our Dads. Maybe they're busy flicking through the Statesman catalogue or something.
Just a couple of foodies around here, you should follow a couple of links and see the good stuff other folks are up to.
A chickpea pancake sounds great. Is your Dad from Mauritius?
'til the next question.. Enjoy the rain.
8/17/2005 06:01:00 pm
Ejm
Yeah it's an all plastic one with tiny teeth rather than have a blade. It grates exceedingly fine.
8/17/2005 07:43:00 pm
I just googled and am guessing you are using something like this Oroshigane(??) but in plastic? Yikes, that looks almost as dangerous as the mandoline! And you say you don't need a handguard for it? Just looking at the pboto gives me raw knuckles!
8/18/2005 03:44:00 am
Nah that's tha nasty type. You have just as much success with a plastic one
http://casty.jp/kyouyou/template/img/photo_rocket_0914-04.jpg
8/18/2005 07:24:00 am
Yes , dad is Mauritian, and they love food. They eat lots of curries ,every meal has chillies to the point where unless it makes their eyes water and their voice go all squeeky they wont eat it... Dad was up here yesterday,and the soap is on its way!!!!!!
8/18/2005 08:13:00 am
Woooh! The soap!
Looks like an amazing place just sitting there in the Indian Ocean. I hear they have big weddings there too.
8/18/2005 02:39:00 pm
Devo..... when the soap "comes in" my dad will buy Mauritius.....
8/18/2005 05:01:00 pm
Excellent! And he could make everybody dance the hucklebuck until he got bored, which would be never, at least for me it would. Wooh Mauritius! I7m packing my bags.
8/18/2005 10:33:00 pm
First.... they dont huckabuck in Mauritius...they Jinga!!!!
Second...Invite only
Third...............GUESS
8/19/2005 08:00:00 am
Jinga! Have they done the hucklebuck though? If they don't know how to do it, then they're out of luck.
Third- they don't say "wooh"
8/19/2005 10:54:00 am
Yeh, yeh keep laughing and Ill be sure to wave as we cruise on by in our private jet ...........
Trust me my five beautiful sisters and I wouldnt let one measly male on our private island anyway.......It would be women only
....................................................now that would be paradise
8/19/2005 02:53:00 pm
An island with five lovely sisters unsullied by mandom sounds suspiciously like some kind of veiled papal edict.
8/22/2005 11:44:00 am
hey burger boy . yes well, not that either of us could understand what the freekin hell you just said( you must understand we is just plain ol country folk).I have enjoyed these mindless natters and have also enjoyed taking the piss out of you over the last week!!!!.We are shearing this week, I will pop up again soon somwhere in spice blogger world un till then..... we hope no-
one gantlopes you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
8/22/2005 03:20:00 pm
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