12.5.10 Sunday evening burgers & fries

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It is a chilly sunday evening in the works home...scott's watching ball and getting the kitchen prepped for burgers & fries.  I'm writing with Alice in Wonderland on the tv...love this movie and the theme of Alice losing her "muchness", being the "wrong" Alice, and then finding her "muchness" and becoming her true self again.  Inspires me..."...I often think of six impossible things before breakfast"

I've already peeled, cut and soaked the potatoes (which were "golden potatoes", but looked a bit green).  And then formed and seasoned the patties with Scott...he seasoned, I "rubbed the meat" as Paula Deen would say..."gotta rub your meat!"...and as Emeril reminds us..."my meat doesn't come seasoned, does yours?"...s&p and garlic powder...each a 1/3lb burger (ground chuck)

Tonight it will be avocado, roma tomato, carmelized onion & mushrooms (left over from pizza palooza), and butter toasted buns.  Scott always gets the cast iron skillet screaming hot, and then sears the burgers till the have a nice brown crust on the outside and still tender and a bit rare inside...juicy and perfect.

The fries will be thoroughly dried after plenty of soaking in cold water to get rid of  xtra starch...then fried in vegi oil (375?)....I believe in overcrowding the pan, keeping the heat high, stirring them every so often, and "cooking the crap out of them", as Anne Burrell would say.  We've tried every way imaginable...double frying, small batch frying, battering them...lots of them are great, and some not so much...but this is the best every time...a hybrid between a potato chip (lays style) and a great crispy fry.

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