Fat Burgers
Last night I had my coat on, bag in hand to leave work and the phone rang. It was Vegetable Man. It was already ten minutes past my quit-time and I had been looking forward to resuming my regular work hours all day after ten to sixteen hour days! But I stayed and talked to him almost a half hour, about movies (Fight Club and Napoleon Dynamite) and sex (he’s thinking about trying Viagra—I don’t know how I feel about that, it’s not necessary!) and health and a whole bunch of things. Basically he was hoping I’d drive to the farm after work but I had already set my heart on spending a peaceful night at home. Still, I was tempted but decided not to after the long conversation. I just wanted to get home and eat homemade food, sit on my own couch and read some books I’d bought used from Amazon.
So I stopped to fill up the truck with gasoline and buy some milk after work, then went home to make hamburgers. I’d stopped for groceries on the drive back from my Mom’s on Sunday night. I formed four patties and tried to make them as thin as possible, as I don’t like thick hamburgers, sprinkled the meat with chili powder and cayenne and started looking for an onion. There were no onions left. I looked again, still no onions. I wished I still had a hamburger press, as the burgers were fresh and puffed up as they were cooking. They weren’t that thin anymore.
The burgers were starting to sizzle and they were naked with no onions on them! I love onions fried up with my burgers, they taste too plain without. So in desperation I minced three cloves of garlic, added a bunch of curry and a bit of Worcestershire sauce. How do you pronounce that? We call it “Wor-chest-shure” sauce, but I’ve heard it said many different ways. I put a top on the skillet and went to look up some information online.
When the burgers were done on one side, I flipped them all over and added more cayenne, chili powder and curry. They were starting to smell pretty good, but not like my regular burgers. Then I cut up swiss and sharp cheddar cheese thinly for the tops. My home-made burgers must have two types of cheese on them. Sometimes it’s other kinds but usually cheddar and swiss. My little dog always begs for a bit of cheese, and she usually gets it, too!
I took out a sesame-seeded hamburger bun, thinly sliced a garden tomato and with a spatula, scooped out a burger and all the nice melted cheese on its top and sides. The burger didn’t need any BBQ sauce, catsup or any condiments to make it good! It was a different taste than I’m used to having, but I liked it. The burger turned out much better than I had thought. Had figured a hamburger without being fried with onions would be barely worth eating! You will notice that I added no salt to the burgers. I’ve been cutting down on salt for years, plus the cheese has salt in it. But I couldn’t help but wonder what sort of wonderful veggie creations I might have had if I had driven out to the farm and eaten dinner with Vegetable Man.
After eating one of the burgers, I found a dish and put the other three into the refrigerator for my son when he comes home from work. No, he probably will eat just one burger, too, not all three! But the remaining burgers will be around for his lunch later and maybe even one left for my dinner tonight.
So, how do you like your burgers made?
From my E-mail
Life Choices
In 1923, Who Was...?
1. President of the largest steel company?
2. President of the largest gas company?
3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?
4. Greatest wheat speculator?
5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?
6. Great Bear of Wall Street?
These men were considered some of the worlds most successful of their days.
Now, 82 years later, history tells us what ultimately became of them.
The Answers:
1. The president of the largest steel company. Charles Schwab, died a pauper.
2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, went insane.
3. The president of the NYSE, Richard Whitney, was released from prison to die at home
4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless.
5. The president of the Bank of International Settlement, shot himself.
6 The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Livermore, also committed suicide.
However, in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion and the winner of the most important golf tournament, the US Open, was Gene Sarazen.
So, what became of him?
He played golf until he was 92, and died in 1999 at the ripe old age of 95! He was *very* financially secure at the time of his death.
The moral here:
Forget work.
Play golf!
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
In the job interview the employer asked the applicant, "I see you were last employed by a psychiatrist," "Why did you leave?"
"Well," she replied, "I just couldn't win. “
”If I was late to work, I was hostile.”
”If I was early, I had an anxiety complex. If I was on time, I was compulsive."
“If I was too quiet, I was depressed. If I was happy, I was manic”
“So what happened?” the job interviewer asked.
“I left with unresolved issues” replied the applicant.
Hope you have a great Tuesday with no unresolved issues!
So I stopped to fill up the truck with gasoline and buy some milk after work, then went home to make hamburgers. I’d stopped for groceries on the drive back from my Mom’s on Sunday night. I formed four patties and tried to make them as thin as possible, as I don’t like thick hamburgers, sprinkled the meat with chili powder and cayenne and started looking for an onion. There were no onions left. I looked again, still no onions. I wished I still had a hamburger press, as the burgers were fresh and puffed up as they were cooking. They weren’t that thin anymore.
The burgers were starting to sizzle and they were naked with no onions on them! I love onions fried up with my burgers, they taste too plain without. So in desperation I minced three cloves of garlic, added a bunch of curry and a bit of Worcestershire sauce. How do you pronounce that? We call it “Wor-chest-shure” sauce, but I’ve heard it said many different ways. I put a top on the skillet and went to look up some information online.
When the burgers were done on one side, I flipped them all over and added more cayenne, chili powder and curry. They were starting to smell pretty good, but not like my regular burgers. Then I cut up swiss and sharp cheddar cheese thinly for the tops. My home-made burgers must have two types of cheese on them. Sometimes it’s other kinds but usually cheddar and swiss. My little dog always begs for a bit of cheese, and she usually gets it, too!
I took out a sesame-seeded hamburger bun, thinly sliced a garden tomato and with a spatula, scooped out a burger and all the nice melted cheese on its top and sides. The burger didn’t need any BBQ sauce, catsup or any condiments to make it good! It was a different taste than I’m used to having, but I liked it. The burger turned out much better than I had thought. Had figured a hamburger without being fried with onions would be barely worth eating! You will notice that I added no salt to the burgers. I’ve been cutting down on salt for years, plus the cheese has salt in it. But I couldn’t help but wonder what sort of wonderful veggie creations I might have had if I had driven out to the farm and eaten dinner with Vegetable Man.
After eating one of the burgers, I found a dish and put the other three into the refrigerator for my son when he comes home from work. No, he probably will eat just one burger, too, not all three! But the remaining burgers will be around for his lunch later and maybe even one left for my dinner tonight.
So, how do you like your burgers made?
From my E-mail
Life Choices
In 1923, Who Was...?
1. President of the largest steel company?
2. President of the largest gas company?
3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?
4. Greatest wheat speculator?
5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?
6. Great Bear of Wall Street?
These men were considered some of the worlds most successful of their days.
Now, 82 years later, history tells us what ultimately became of them.
The Answers:
1. The president of the largest steel company. Charles Schwab, died a pauper.
2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, went insane.
3. The president of the NYSE, Richard Whitney, was released from prison to die at home
4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless.
5. The president of the Bank of International Settlement, shot himself.
6 The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Livermore, also committed suicide.
However, in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion and the winner of the most important golf tournament, the US Open, was Gene Sarazen.
So, what became of him?
He played golf until he was 92, and died in 1999 at the ripe old age of 95! He was *very* financially secure at the time of his death.
The moral here:
Forget work.
Play golf!
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
In the job interview the employer asked the applicant, "I see you were last employed by a psychiatrist," "Why did you leave?"
"Well," she replied, "I just couldn't win. “
”If I was late to work, I was hostile.”
”If I was early, I had an anxiety complex. If I was on time, I was compulsive."
“If I was too quiet, I was depressed. If I was happy, I was manic”
“So what happened?” the job interviewer asked.
“I left with unresolved issues” replied the applicant.
Hope you have a great Tuesday with no unresolved issues!
17 Comments:
They sound really good. I do like onions with my burgers though, inside with the meat and ontop fried and slighty caramelised.
Worcester sauce, is pronounced...
wus (Rhyme with bus) -ster (Rhyme with fur)
It is supposed to be good with cheese on toast too. I keep meaning to try that.
not sure my spelling of rhyme is correct.
Have a good day
My life is one unresolved issue.
i don't like thick burgers either, but onions gross me out...ick
i like relish or lettuce and cheese is always good..
i say it
wus-ter-shur
i don't use it all that much..and i have too many issues to name...lol
:0)
I don't like hamburgers but I do eat them occasionally, preferably plain.
I also wonder what you would have if you had gone to the farm. Funny, vegetables didn't come to mind when I thought about it since he would have been in a Viagra induced haze..
I use Worcestershire sauce. I like to let the burgers soak it up for an hour or so before grilling. I used to pronounce it "worst-a-shister" when I was growing up just to piss my mother off. I like Heinze 57 sauce on the side, but I don't think it tastes as good cooked into the meat.
Fizzy was right. It's wuster or woster.
I like my hamburgers made by someone else... I am no good at the cooking thing!
Wooorchester.. ha just kidding I don't know I just say "that really good stuff!"
I like my burgers just about any old way. Right now I really like them with Cream cheese and onions.
I like someone else to make my hamburgers and leave out the onion and garlic. And I like a robust red wine with them---or if I'm having my favourite a "Teen, no onions", I like a root beer. And Viagra scares me, and I don't even have to take it.
Yes, I definitely like mine made by someone else, but I do like this idea of thin patties, I'm not keen on a big thick burgers! Also, 2 types of cheese sounds ace!
Loads and loads of fried onions and mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, beetroot (an Aussie thing) BBQ sauce under the meat and a blob of mayo on top of the salad.
And where I grew up we called it Wooster Sauce.
I'm hungry now!
Woo ster shur...say it fast. Next time you make burgers...take your finger and make a hole in the center of the pattie once it is in the pan, and that should keep it from getting thicker. It will shrink a little so pat it out bigger in the pan...but the hole does help. I'd eat your burger the way you fixed it...but Mr. Sumo wouldn't. He takes only salt and pepper...lots of it. jA burger sounds really good now!
That sounds fantastic. I'm going to make those.
love the last joke!
Just got an idea of what to cook for tea tonight. Thanks PBS
Oh gosh. I shouldn't have read this just after eating a big supper! Now I'm full.
I don't live to far from Worcester RI. When I first moved here, I once asked for directions to War-sess-ter and I thought the man at the gas station would die laughing at me. Now I know better... Wuss-ter.
Wusster-sher sauce. :)
Your burgers sound great!
Who would have thought that an essay about cooking hamburgers could be so beautiful?
That was lovely.
Btw, I way "wur-chest-er-shire", but everyone looks at me funny when I say it.
Hmm, suddenly I'm getting really hungry.
I think I usually say "wurst-shur".
Interesting tidbits about those moguls. I'm hoping some of these modern day rich pricks suffer the same fates!
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