Chef David Makes a Harvest Burger

Chef David From the Buster Brown Bean Company Cafe and Bistro Makes a Harvest Burger.

Ingredients:

2 - 2.5lbs of Local Grain Fed Ground Beef (Recommended Someday Maybe Farms, Forestville, NY, they use an Irish Dexter Cow)
1 Whole medium yellow onion, cut in half & sliced thin
1/2 Green Apple peeled & sliced thin
Fresh Thyme to taste, chopped
Salt & Pepper to taste
1-2 TBSP Butter
Danish Bleu Cheese (crumbles).
Kaiser Rolls, lightly toasted

Sweet Potato Wedges:

2 - 3 Large Sweet Potatoes peeled and cut to wedges.
Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper to taste

Steps:

1. Add sweet potato wedges, olive oil, salt & pepper to an oven safe baking dish.
2. Toss and put in oven at 375 degrees, bake for 20-30 minutes, checking & tossing occasionally.
3. Cook until tender & slightly browned.
4. In the meantime, heat your sauté pan over medium/medium-low heat and add butter to the pan, and melt.
5. Add sliced onions and salt & pepper to taste.
6. Toss onions through and leave to caramelize.
7. While the potatoes and onions cook, take the beef, using about 4 - 5 oz per person.
8. Add salt & pepper and fresh-chopped thyme to taste, mixing thoroughly through the meat.
9. Form your patties into rounds and create a small well in center of topside, using your thumb. This will help the burger keep it's form.
10. Check on the onions…if the caramelizing process is going slowly- stir them through, add a splash of water and cover.
11. Once browning occurs, add the apple slices to soften.
12. Cook your burger to taste (recommended medium).
13. Top each with the onion & apples and add bleu cheese crumble to top.

Second Helpings: Shepherds Pie

Ingredients:

Sweet Potato Mash –

Remaining Sweet Potatoes peeled and cubed
Leftover Sweet Potato Wedge Fries, chopped
1-2 TBSP Butter
1-2 oz of Cream Cheese, softened

Meat & vegetable filling –

1 Medium Yellow Onion chopped
1-2 Cloves Garlic chopped
2 stalks celery (including leafy ends) chopped
2 Whole Carrots peeled and chopped
½ Cup Frozen Corn
Fresh Parsley chopped (to taste)
Remaining Ground
Leftover Prepared Burger crumbled/chopped
Salt & Pepper to taste
2-3 TBSP Butter

Steps:

1. Chop left over sweet potatoes into cubes and boil until FORK tender, drain.
2. Add salt & pepper to taste, soft butter to taste, any leftover wedge fries chopped up, and 1-2 oz of softened cream cheese.
3. Mash or blend thoroughly.
4. Heat pan on stove top and melt butter.
5. Take chopped onion, garlic, celery, peas, corn, carrots (whatever veggies you like really), salt & pepper to taste and sauté in butter.
6. Add beef and brown; feel free to crumble up any burgers from last night into the mix towards the end.
7. Add chopped fresh parsley.
8. Deglaze the pan with chicken stock and scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.
9. Add a splash of cream.
10. Pushing the contents of the pan to the sides, make a well in the center and add a thickening agent (corn starch flour, Wondra, etc), whisk through with stock & cream to make a gravy.
11. Pour all of this into a baking dish.

Spread the mashed sweet potatoes evenly over the top of the burger and vegetable mixture and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until heated through and slightly browned on the top. Serve with a side salad!

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