Not to brag or anything, but the dinner I made up for tonight was pretty good. I had some “Mediterranean” cheese crumbles in the fridge and some ground pork that I needed to use, so I made Greek burgers.
1. Ingredients:
english muffins
1/2 lb. pork (I think turkey would be good for this, too, but I’d add something else, like some cheese or apple juice to make it stick together)
Greek seasoning (find any recipe online to make your own, like I did, or buy some premade)
Mediterranean cheese (the stuff I got on sale was provolone, feta, and parmesan)
Olive salad (whatever you want to add to some chopped up olives – mine was a handful of green olives with pimento, about a quarter of an onion, finely chopped, 2 mashed cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar)
2. Toast english muffins. Mix together pork and about 2 tablespoons of Greek seasoning. Form into patties (I made 4 small ones).
3. Wait until your husband finally decides to make his way home, even though you’re super excited to get started on this endeavor.
4. Cook burgers however you want. Broil some of the cheese on the bottoms of the muffins, until it’s melty and a little bit brown.
5. Put the burgers on the cheesy muffin bottoms, top with olive salad (I put more on mine than on Andy’s, since I knew I’d like it more.)
6. That’s it. We also had some diced potatoes cooked with olive oil and some more of the Greek seasoning in a cast iron skillet and some steamed California blend (see, Andy does eat green things!).
I’d been thinking of this pretty much all day long, since I didn’t have any inspiration for dinner otherwise and I think it turned out very well. Hopefully I’ll be able to put it together the same way another time, but chances are I forgot to include something I did that made it good, but feel free to try it too, and let me know if you do anything differently.
I can just imagine what your father and sister would say if I tried something like this.
I was telling a story on Rachel a week or so ago…when she was younger, she never liked the change of seasons because you had to either start wearing a coat or not wearing one depending on the season. She would CRY over this change for about a week or so. I thought of this again when we went to The Olive Garden to eat. She orders the same thing every time. Even when I suggested she try something different, it was “5 cheese zita” – what happened between Brooke who tries many new things and Rachel who won’t? I don’t know.
Mallory happened between me and Rachel. Doesn’t that explain everything??
Haha!