Detoxing and Cinco de Mayo

 

 (Pictured: Herbert and Ignacio the Piñata)

Week 18 & Week 19 (May 5 & May 12) 

I was detoxing this week so had a very strict meal plan I needed to follow. So when our cooking night came along (on Cinco de Mayo), I used the turkey burger recipe that the Clean Food Detox Plan suggested. I was so hungry that I downed the burger, so didn't get a chance to take pictures of it. But it was surprisingly a very delicious burger.

The following week a friend was in need of pictures for a recipe book and we decided we'd try one of the recipes for our cooking night. We chose Tobacco Onions, which was a recipe for onion rings. We thought a burger would pair well with the onion rings, so we used the turkey burger recipe again. And it gave us a chance to take pictures this time.

 

The Tobacco onion recipe called for both red and yellow onions.

I made the flour mixture (flour, cayenne, paprika, salt and pepper) and floured the onions.

Then fried the onions. We don't have a fryer, so I used an old school teapot as a make-shift fryer.

The first couple of batches didn't come out as golden as we would have liked. I was also a little concerned that the flour mixture was not sticking to the onions and was thinking about using an egg wash, but found that this was resolved as soon as the oil got hotter.  (I recommend using a thermometer to make sure the oil is hot enough to fry in).

The last batches came out crispier and golden! They reminded me of a birds nest and Geoffrey thought of Hamburger Hamlet's onion strings.

I topped my burger with the tobacco onions.

Geoffrey had his as a side.

We found the recipes to be easy. The burger was tasty and the onions melted in our mouths and complemented the turkey burgers well.

Mmmm, that was a good burger!