Saturday nights in Casa de la Swan can end up one of two ways: cereal for dinner due to sheer laziness, or something scrumptious if the moons have aligned just right and given me guests to cook for, which was the case last night. The kids and I joined Morgan and her nieces Nadia and Nina for swimming at the YMCA, then decided to get together for dinner later in the afternoon. I had seen these amazing looking burgers on Foodie with Family, and as soon as I mentioned them to Morgan she was instantly in agreement that these would be the perfect Saturday night dinner for our crowd. If you want the full recipe click on over to FWF, and try anything you see because I can guarantee everything she makes is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mixed up all the ingredients (minus the roasted garlic, mine had all started sprouting when I went to roast it so I used an awesome homemade garlic powder my mom gave me), I slightly froze the patties after forming them, and I followed her explicit instructions on slapping them on the grill and not touching them for several minutes, and they turned out BOMB DIGGITY. Like, seriously bomb diggity. Juicy, flavorful, the spinach and feta adding just the right flavors to a typically dry burger experience. I didn't get pictures of us devouring them, but please rest assured that many moans were made over the flavor explosion in our mouths.
During the summer, at least once a week, is "grill night" at our house. I don't eat beef or pork (or any processed meat product, so grill nights have always been a bahumbug night for me...until last summer. I started making sure that I always had ground chicken or turkey, fresh basil, hopefully some spinach & often some feta, blue or other cheeses around. When the hubby is heating up the grill, I throw in the ground poultry, a little sea salt, fresh ground pepper, a little organic granulated garlic. Then I tear up some fresh basil. I take a string cheese (toddler doesn't mind) out of the fridge & cut it into tiny pieces & squish it in, If I have some blue cheese or spinach & make sure it's the same size as everything else that went in & throw it in. Then I form the mixture into small sausage shaped ovals (I try not to eat much bread & the cook faster that way). I eat them dipped in a little spicy mustard. So delicious!
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