Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Introducing The Stuffing Burger - I Heart My Pressure Cooker - And Other Cooking Stuff

I have invented THE NEXT BIG THING IN FAST FOOD!

The Stuffing Burger!


The Stuffing Burger was created a couple of nights ago when looking at a rather large amount of leftover Thanksgiving stuffing and no other Thanksgiving related food I came up with the idea of using it as a binder for some kind of meat to make a patty. I had some BBQ Pork in the freezer so I used that. It came out great. I can see all kinds of opportunities - different types of stuffing/dressings as the binder with all kinds of proteins. Can you see the Cajun Crayfish version using oyster stuffing and leftover crayfish tails!  I can see chains of these across the county.

And please don't bother me with any thoughts such as people have been doing this for ages. I refuse to have my genius sullied by inconvenient truths.


In the meantime I am reminded again just how much I LOVE my pressure cooker. I used it to make my turkey stock for Thanksgiving. Just an hour of cooking and I had tons of this rich luscious stock with that I'm using for my party cooking. Just today, I was making an Austrian Goulash. Stewing/Braising meat at altitude can be a real pain because of the lower boiling point of water means you're cooking at a much lower temperature and thereby have much longer cooking times. Not with the pressure cooker. It only took an hour again in the PC to have fork tender meat and lots of rich sauce.

Wife has been baking up a storm making mini-loaves for the party.

A whole wheat bread





And a light rye bread



And while we're on the subject of baking, Wife and I are really getting the touch with making pastry dough. I do the dough assembly and she does the rolling out and assembly.

Look at those flaky layers!


4 comments:

Renee Michelle Goertzen said...

I am very impressed with that pastry! Would you and Aunt de-I like to join my future mail-order baked goods service as the pastry providers?

Agent W said...

All I can say is... WOW! Thumbs up!

alexis said...

let's see if GBBO will accept a team entry

Terri said...

I would definitely try a stuffing burger! I can imagine the possibilities!