Sunday, April 18, 2010

Cooking in La Honda

The other night Jeff and I cooked Jeff's famous honey ginger pork burger. It was DAMN good. I didn't really do much of the cooking, except assisting and watching but it was pretty simple putting it all together. It just takes some creativity and good ingredients.

We headed to Robert's Market down by Woodside and got some ground pork, honey, french bread, spinach, coconut, ginger and pear. Jeff sauteed coconut milk, ginger, and garlic in a pan and then used that to marinate the pork. He then added the honey and then started grilling the pork. It smelled good and the honey glazes and chars the outside of the meat really nicely.

I helped chop some things and toast the bread =). Not a big feat, but someone needed to do it! Then we sliced the pears and put them on the toasted bread, along with fresh spinach. I added mayonnaise to mine since I love mayonnaise, but it tastes just fine without it as well! The burger is perfect. Crunchy bun, flavorful meat, crisp spinach and the pear adds a bit of creamy goodness. So does the mayonnaise! You can substitute the bread with normal buns or any other type of your favorite bread. The key to this sandwich/burger is namely in the meat flavors and the pear.


Anyway, finished product is depicted above. YUM. I highly recommend you try this sometime because it's delicious and relatively easy to make.