Simple Grilled Burgers
American Potato Salad
Tomato Garlic Salad
Cooking time: 30 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for instructions
Burgers and Potato Salad.... It's summer! I refer to this as 'American' potato salad because it is.... And because I also make different German and French potato salads.
Simple Grilled Burgers
Total time: 30 minutes
I used beef but these would be equally good with ground turkey or chicken. If using poultry I would use white wine. The crumbs, wine, etc. add a bit of moistness and a whole lot of flavor!
Ingredients:
- 12oz (360gr) ground beef ( mince)
- 2 tbs breadcrumbs
- 1 tbs red wine or stock
- 1 1/2 tbs ketchup
- 2 tsp Dijon-style mustard
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
Instructions:
- Put all ingredients into a large bowl and mix well.
- Shape into 3 or 4 patties.
- Cook on barbecue grill over direct heat for 4 - 5 minutes per side.
- Or sauté in nonstick skillet for same amount of time.
- Remove and serve.
Traditional American Potato Salad
Total time: 30 minutes
I know one is not supposed to mess with a classic, but I lightened it up a bit substituting yogurt for some of the mayonnaise. I use Dijon mustard because regular yellow salad or ballpark mustard is not available here. If you use salad mustard, I would use 4 tbs, rather than 3. This is enough for 2 meals.
Ingredients:
- 4 medium potatoes, 16oz (480gr) total
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- 2 - 3 ribs celery
- 2 tbs snipped chives
- 1 tbs good olive oil
- 1/3 cup (3oz, 90gr) mayonnaise
- 1/3 cup (3oz, 90gr) Greek or plain yogurt
- 3 tbs Dijon-style mustard or 4 tbs yellow salad mustard
Instructions:
- Hard boil eggs.
- Slice the potatoes for salad and put in a steamer basket over an inch of water and steam over medium heat for 15 minutes or until done.
- When done, put the potatoes into a bowl and immediately drizzle with 1 tbs olive oil, stir to coat and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Chop celery.
- Snip chives.
- Peel and chop eggs.
- To make dressing: Put mayonnaise, yogurt and mustard in small bowl and mix. Taste - add more mustard if you like (I like a lot) or mayo or yogurt to get the flavor you prefer.
- Add most of the dressing to the potatoes and mix lightly.
- Add celery, eggs and chives, stir to combine.
- Add the rest of the dressing if needed - to your taste. Serve.
Note: The yogurt adds a nice, tangy flavor and keeps the calories down a bit. If too thick you can thin with a bit of milk or cream or olive oil.
Tomato Garlic Salad
Total time: 10 minutes
I prefer to make this with cherry or grape tomatoes (from my garden) but any, fresh, vine-ripened tomato will work. I make it on Sunday, we have some every night and I just add more tomatoes to it all week as they ripen, - starting fresh whenever we finish it all...
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup (3oz, 90gr) red cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 cup (3oz, 90gr) yellow cherry tomatoes - or all red
- 1 tbs fresh basil, snipped
- 1 tbs fresh chives, snipped
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tbs salad olive oil
- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp salt - sea salt if you have it.
Instructions:
- Finely mince garlic.
- Put garlic and oil in a small serving bowl and let rest while you deal with the tomatoes.
- Cut tomatoes in half (that was tough).
- Snip herbs.
- Add both to garlic oil and sprinkle with salt. Stir gently.
- This is good today, better tomorrow.
Cooking Schedule:
30 minutes for menu
Assemble all ingredients and utensils
Utensils: measuring cups, spoons, knives,
medium bowl, 2 small bowls, small saucepan, lid,
saucepan with steamer basket and lid, grill
basket or mesh pan, barbecue grill
Turn on/light barbecue grill
Slice potatoes, steam
Hard cook eggs
Mince garlic
Put garlic, oil in small bowl
Slice cherry tomatoes
Snip all herbs
Add tomatoes, salt, herbs to garlic, stir
Make burgers |
Oil basket or pan for burger
Divide beef, make 4 patties
Mind the eggs
Make dressing for potato salad
Chop celery
Start to cook burgers
Remove potatoes, add oil, stir gently
Peel, chop eggs
Stir tomato salad
Turn burgers
Add some dressing to potatoes, stir
Add chives, celery, egg to potatoes, stir
Taste and adjust dressing
Remove burgers
Serve |