Umami Burger

by Liz Heather in , ,

This L.A. chain just opened a location in NYC earlier this month. I went yesterday evening. You need to eat this burger.

 

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That is a photo of The Original above. I ate it... slowly. That's how you can trust that I'm being forthright in telling you how good it was. What's in The Original? A parmesan crisp, shiitake mushrooms, roasted tomato, caramelized onions, a house umami ketchup. The bun? Fucking pillowy and perfect. Just delicious. For $12 a burger I was expecting it to be, at the very least, memorable - and it definitely was. The wait for a table is just dumb, but hopefully that'll settle down once the summer winds to a close. You need to try this burger. And don't make any substitutions either. The older you get, the more trusting you need to be about what a chef wants to put on their burger, so trust them, fool.

Side Dish of Corn

by Liz Heather in ,

You might think this is a dumb post, but I just ate this stuff and I'll never cook corn the same way from now on.  

I love corn. My mom would always boil it, strain it and then put some butter on it and voila. Beautiful. But I just ate/made some corn that blows that old corn out of the water (haha!). 

What should you do? 

Okay. You need some organic corn-on-the-cob, garlic cloves, olive oil, kosher salt and ground black pepper. If you use one ear of corn, then chop one clove of garlic and pour 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan. (If you use two ears of corn then use two cloves and 3 tablespoons of olive oil - you get the picture.) 

Stand the corn-on-the-cob upright in the frying pan and use a sharp knife to cut the kernels from the cob (it's easy to do this right in the pan 'cause if you do it on a cutting board the kernels go flying everywhere. I mean everywhere.) into the pan. Add the chopped garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. Cook it up. Takes maybe three-four minutes. And you will have the best tasting corn of your damn life. I could eat buckets of this stuff. And the beautiful part? Doesn't need any butter! I know! But butter's great! However you truly don't need a smidgen of it here.  

New Fries at Shake Shack

by Liz Heather in ,

I know that I've already voiced my views on the burgers at Shake Shack (see here, for a refresher). But I just found out today that they're upgrading their fries. And that's post-worthy.

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They used to look like this: 

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And they've decided to change them to these:  

And this decision is glorious. They just announced the change today. Why am I writing about this? Well, I find it rare for a company to actually listen to their consumers when there's a valid, popular complaint. Those old fries can eat a dick! They were awful. This place is becoming unstoppable now. I'm kind of afraid almost. Cannot wait to try these. 

Tip of the Day - Easy Deviled Eggs

by Liz Heather in ,

Once the eggs are hard boiled, put the cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal it up, mash them up until they're all broken up. Then add the remainder of your ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing roughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. For an easy clean up, just throw bag away when done.

Read about that tip here. Just a devilishly good idea. (I know, I know. Boooooo!)

Singular Cupcakes

by Liz Heather in ,

Do you ever crave just one cupcake? Of course you do, you maniac! And this site can give you the ingredients for 1-2 servings. My personal favourite is for the carrot cake one found here. 

I can't tell you the amount of times I'll just make a batch of 12 or 24 only because I want one or two. And what do I do with the rest? Force feed them to loved ones. But who needs that? Everyone resents you later. Anyhow, just an idea. God speed.