Entries tagged with 'burgers'
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We see an awful lot of menus and eat out a bunch of times a week. Now that we're halfway into 2011, we've started to spot a handful of food and drink trends. Lamb, homemade syrups and sodas, burger chains spreading, and more. Here are seven on our radar right now. What else have you noticed?
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For last week's
Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked all of you to forgo the beef in favor of other proteins coaxed into burger-like packages. Predictably
Beef-less Burgers caused quite a stir, sparking the age-old question:
"is it still burger without the beef." No matter what side of the fence you're on, you have to admit that this challenge brought in some great (albeit, possibly bastardized) burger ideas. Let's take a look at some of our favorite bun-stuffers.
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Given how unimpressed I've been with McDonald's
Angus Snack Wrap and
Angus Burger, I can't say I had high hopes for their new limited-time only release—the
Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus Burger and Snack Wrap.
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This week on
Street Food Profiles we scoot to Baltimore to chat with the
Kooper's Chowhound Burger Wagon, an offshoot of the 12-year-old restaurant Kooper's Tavern, known for feeding hungry Baltimoreans the best burgers in town. On the truck, you can build your own gourmet burger with Angus beef, Kobe beef, free-range turkey, veggie, or bison patties, and then pile on the toppings.
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We cruised the freezer aisle to taste a bunch of widely available brands of veggie burgers to find the most edible. No cows were harmed in this tasting—but many soybeans were.
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to North Carolina, not necessarily known as a street food hotspot but this burger truck is changing that. Name: Only Burger Vendors: Brian Bottger and Tom Ferguson Location and hours? Durham, North Carolina for lunch, dinner, and late night. Twitter: @onlyburger What's on the menu? Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie burgers, turkey burgers and fries of course! (With occasional specials for special events.) How long have you been street fooding? Just one year. How has Twitter affected business? We have recently started tweeting our locations and specials. It has done wonders for our business and we have recently hit our 1,000th follower....
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Before you fire up the grill for one last summer cookout, check out these ten steps to the perfect burger from the blog Al Dente. The takeaways? Weigh your patties to ensure even portions (and therefore even cooking time), don't be afraid to salt, and follow what we'll call the 3-2-1 rule: Grill for three minutes on the first side, two minutes on the flip, add cheese, and cook for one minute more. Any more tips for grilling the perfect burger?...
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Photograph by Cassaendra Last week's Weekend Cook and Tell was all about burgers. We asked you to share some of your favorite burger techniques and recipes with us for the holiday weekend and as usual we've gotten some fantastic responses. Here are some of our favorites: Tired of dry beef patties, ChloeA has taken to using ground pork in its place. Sprinkled with brown sugar, salt and pepper, pan seared and served with onion and ketchup, these pork burgers stayed juicy. NotAmerican likes to prep the grill by grilling some bacon before the burgers go on. This technique flavors the burgers with a hint of bacon and keeps them from sticking. Kalajo made burger bun from scratch using this...
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Do you ever wonder what chefs eat? You'd think that with access to a well-stocked walk-in and state-of-the-art kitchen they would eat exceptionally well, on par or better than the food that we pay for in their restaurants. You might think that it is all white truffles, foie gras, and vintage Bordeaux—but the reality is a bit bleaker. Chefs are usually too busy preparing for service to sit down to a proper meal. Days start early, end late, and there is no lunch hour. When the clock strikes 10 or 11 p.m., or later depending on what time the restaurant closes, chances are the people who've made your dinner have had nothing more than a few spoonfuls of food (to...
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Our pick for top dish of The Year That Was. The burger was everywhere in 2008, and I do mean everywhere, made by anybody and everybody, by both anonymous nobodies and celebrity somebodies. Bobby Flay did it. So did Thomas Keller, and Daniel Boulud and Eric Ripert, and Tom Colicchio. And Rachael Ray announced plans to do it. What was the most popular event at fancy-pants food and wine festivals in Miami and New York? The Burger Bash, of course. The burger was featured on Top Chef and Iron Chef and Conan and on Letterman and Leno. Jon Stewart loves them and so does Brian Williams. I'm sure Dr. House is devouring burgers when he's not popping pills. Even our...
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