Summer Recipes: Melanie's Hobo Burgers
So, I’m from New Orleans. During the summer, we have these things called hurricanes – you may have heard of them. They can be pretty rough. Last year, an August hurricane knocked out my power for about 8 days – which wouldn’t have been so bad if the highs weren’t in the 90s…. and if I could have left a window or something open. Oh well.
Needless to say, using your oven, or even your stovetop, isn’t a good idea. It just gets way too hot. So, grill it is! This particular recipe can also be done in the oven, or in a camp fire. Basically, any place you can cook something in aluminum foil.
Hobo Burgers
Makes 4-5 servings (depends on how big you like your burgers!)
Ingredients:
- 1.5lb ground beef
- 4-6 red potatoes (or 2 russet potatoes, or 3-4 golden potatoes) – sliced into thin rounds
- 1 […]
This has been a mainstay of summer eating since I can remember.
With everybody submitting mouth-watering savoury recipes, I thought I would contribute a traditionally English quick and easy dessert idea.
My family loves roasted asparagus, and we eat it often during the summer to compliment grilled steaks and chicken. The recipe is likely familiar, but if you cook it on the grill with your meat you can avoid heating the kitchen.
Both the houses I grew up in had swimming pools, so when any summer holiday rolled around the party was always at my house (in New Jersey this carried the added benefit of free volunteer labor to remove the pool cover on Memorial Day and put it back on on Labor Day). My mom’s lemon squares were always part of the celebration. They were en vogue in the seventies, and her lemon squares were famous for being better than anyone’s. I don’t think it’s because they are hard to make or that she used a vastly different recipe; it’s that she didn’t cut corners with ingredients. You can’t use lemon juice from a bottle or margarine instead of butter; you might as well buy that gross Krustee Lemon Bar kit in a box (no, don’t do that. No one should ever do that. Life is too short.). Years later I […]
Fried green tomatoes have been a favorite summer treat of mine since I was small. I learned how to make them from my grandmother and like pretty much everyone I know, I have my own particular way of making them. Some folks bread theirs only with flour, others mix in cornmeal and still others use breadcrumbs or panko. And then there are the spice mixtures and dipping sauces!