Happy (Very, very) belated MLK day everyone! I hope
you used your day off wisely like Mr Idiot and I did.
I mean, watching IT Crowd and Fringe
all day on the couch is wise right? Right?
Well, whatever, judgeypants, we made
some pretty damn tasty burgers too, so there.
I've been longing for a good burger for
a while, and I'm going to have to seriously investigate some paleo
bread options, so if you've got suggestions, send them my way. But,
as I was browsing the internet wondering what the hell I was going to
eat, as is my wont, I kept finding beautiful, cheesy, delicious
looking pictures of burgers (thanks Tumblr, geez) and figured we
could throw something together.
And so was the born Idiot Burgers With
the Wrong Kind of Lettuce
We're still in the process of keeping
on top of the vegetables we buy. I DETEST throwing away food, and I
try really hard to use everything that we've bought (I'm looking at
you slowly wrinkling apples) so I needed something that used up the
tomatoes hiding on the bottom shelf, as well as the last of the
mushrooms in the bottom of the crisper. I'm always nervous about
mushrooms, after a few days they get a little slimy and all of a
sudden, there's mushrooms in everything.
So, burgers!
1 lb ground turkey
2 Roma tomatoes
Several leaves of Romaine lettuce
However many mushrooms were left in the
fridge (I think five)
1 avocado sliced
1 large sweet potato, sliced
2 tbsp coconut oil
I didn't want to defrost a whole 3-lbs
of ground beef, so the little 1 pound ground turkey tubes that we
found hidden in the wrong aisle at the grocery store came in handy.
We were also out of eggs, so we had no
glue to hold the patties together and they were admittedly a little
fragile. So next time, I'll be mixing an egg in to hold everything
together better.
Anyway, roll out some patties with
whatever ground meat you want to use. We made sliders, so I got nine
out of one pound of turkey.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
I shallow fried the patties in coconut
oil, they took about seven minutes to cook over medium high heat.
Cut the sweet potatoes into fry-sized
bits (Mr. Idiot did that bit, and I have no idea how he cut them so
you're on your own)
Coat the fries in coconut oil (I think
Mr. Idiot cheated and used peanut oil, but shhhh) and a generous
helping of salt and pepper.
Spread them out on a baking tray and
make sure they have a little room to breathe or they'll get soggy,
not crispy. Put those suckers in the oven for 15 minutes. Once the
15 minutes is up, flip them over and put them in for another ten.
Check up on them, they should be getting brown, but not black. Add
extra five minutes of baking as you need to.
Slice up the tomatoes, avocados and
mushrooms.
I sauteed my mushrooms briefly in some
coconut oil, but feel free to eat them raw if you want.
Arrange everything on your lettuce, and
top.
We really should have used iceberg or
something for this, because the romaine lettuce was a pain in the
ass to use as a “bun”
We cut up a little sharp cheddar and
put that on the patties too.
That's all, just go ahead on nom on
these little burgers. They are delicious. Next time though, better
lettuce.
