Giveaway - Burgers and Sliders Book

This is a seriously good book and I love all the different ideas.  The photography is fantastic and with over 30 gourmet recipes to choose from it's hard to pick which to make first.

  I have a copy of this book to Giveaway to one lucky reader of A Glug of Oil....

  From the Beef Wellington Burger (in a shortcrust pastry bun) to a Cheesy Root Vegetable Burger, then there's the Pork and Antipasti Burger served between Foccacia rolls with Lemon Mayo, or what about Christmas Canape Sliders with Cranberry Sauce and Camembert?

Sometimes just the Classic Beef Burger is does the trick:

   Photograph by Clare Winfield

It doesn't stop there - there's a section on Sauces and Side dishes too.

All in all it's a lovely book and will give you some completely different ideas away from ordinary burgers and sliders.

'Burgers and Sliders' by Miranda Ballard is published by Ryland Peters and Small and is available at £9.99 from www.rylandpeters.com 

Photography by Clare Winfield.

Thank you to Lauren for sending me a copy to review and supplying a copy to giveaway.

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Giveaway - Breakfast for Dinner Book

 I'm sure we've all had Breakfast for Dinner before now, but this book is packed full of amazing recipes and pictures that seriously make you hungry!

There are too many nice recipes to choose from, but I'm loving the Greek Baked Eggs, Beer Braised Short Ribs and Bacon Fried Rice.  

But then again, what about the Sunny-Side-Up Burgers (shown on the front cover) juicy burgers piled high with sweet apricot preserve and crispy shoestring potatoes and an egg.....Oh yes, I'll have one of those please!

 I have a copy of this book to giveaway to one lucky reader of A Glug of Oil....

 I've kindly been a copy to review and permission to post a few pictures from the book so you know what I'm raving about - I think you'll agree this book is a must have for anyone fancying Breakfast for Dinner.

 From Goats Cheese Monte Cristos, Breakfast Pizza, Espresso Baked Beans, Chicken & Biscuit Waffles, Bloody Mary Tomato Soup, Maple- Glazed Pork Meatballs and Mini BLT Biscuits to these mouthwatering delights below.

Don't just take my word for it!  
You can read another review of this book by popping over to see what Janice has to say over at Farmers Girl Kitchen.

 Chocolate Brownie Waffles with Blackberry Sauce

      How about Bacon Jam?

 Or Mint Chocolate Chip Pancakes perhaps?

Cornflake-Crusted Chicken Tenders - a great one for the kids

The recipe for Cornflake-Crusted Chicken Tenders can be found here but for the rest you'll just have to enter the competition and hope you win, or buy the book!

Written by Lindsay Landis and her husband Taylor Hackbarth.

You can visit the authors website Love and Olive Oil

Hardback book, published by Quirk Books

Available to buy now in all good book shops and over at Amazon - also available is the Kindle Edition.

Thank you to Mat at PGUK Publishers Group (UK) for sending a copy of this book to review and supplying a giveaway copy.

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Smoky Pork Sliders with Barbecue Sauce

Gordon Ramsay made these into bite sized mini burgers, I decided to make 4 big burgers instead.  However you choose to make yours is of course up to you.  Smoky from the bacon and paprika and with a sweet and sour hit from the barbecue sauce, these burgers are seriously good.

 The addition of Applewood smoked Cheddar really does the trick but any smoked Cheddar will be fine.

Spicy Burgers with Colston Bassett Stilton Cheese Melt

Nice fat spicy burgers, each topped with a thick slab of Colston Bassett Stilton 

melted in the oven so the cheese runs down the side of the burger.  Add skinny chips to the plate and your all set to tuck in!  

Of course the Stilton cheese doesn't have to be from Colston Bassett, but having recently received some in a Seasonal box courtesy of Knorr supplied by Forman and Field once we'd tried it we have to say it is the best Stilton ever!
We love it - not too strong, nice and creamy, just perfect for cheese and biscuits......and topping burgers of course!

Now I said the word spicy when describing my burgers, but it is of course, up to you how much spice you want - just add less chilli.

Not Quite Jamie Oliver's Elvis Burger

I say not quite Jamie's Elvis Burger for two reasons:

  The first because I thought they sounded way too massive at 250g (9oz) each (and that's coming from a quite a greedy person).  I'm sure I've missed the point of it being called an Elvis burger because mine were smaller.

The second reason for my burgers being 'not quite Elvis' is because having used half the beef that Jamie did to make 4 burgers, I still used the same amount of spices and mustard etc.

    Result - excellent!

They tasted really good and I'll be making these again!
My picture isn't too amazing but you get the gist.

Brie and Bacon Burgers

 Homemade, nice fat juicy burgers topped with bacon and Brie.

Ideal for the nice BBQ weather we've been having!

Jan's Teriyaki Pork Burgers

Quite liking the Chicken Teriyaki skewers I made the other day, got me wondering if I could make a Teriyaki burger.  

Thinking I'd invented something (silly me) I made some.  Oooh and they were very nice!  

Later on after tapping into Google 'Teriyaki burger', I learned I hadn't 'invented' them at all.  Clearly I need to get out more!  

Hey ho whatever, they were nice and juicy and full of flavour and I'll be making them again.  No breadcrumbs to be found in these, just good, fresh ingredients.

Jan's Beef and Red Onion Burgers

Burgers with loads of red onion and a nice heat from the cayenne pepper - served with whatever takes your fancy.  

But the law says you just have to top your burger with cheese if you do nothing else.

Cheese melting on top of the burger with a big dollop of American yellow mustard.....

Top Notch Burger, Served on an English Muffin

Nice fat juicy burgers made with best quality beef, sun dried tomatoes and gherkins.  The cayenne pepper and Tabasco both help to add a really nice flavour and heat to them.

Get yourself the best minced beef you can buy and it will have a low fat content.  Burgers you make yourself will be the best you've ever tasted.

Chicken and Chilli Burgers with Lime Mayonnaise

Juicy and tender chicken burgers with a kick of chilli and the crunch of spring onion, serve with lime mayonnaise and sweet potato chips.

These are similar the the sweet chilli chicken burgers I made a while back.
But I think the addition of birds eye chillies and by serving with lime mayonnaise is even nicer. My reason for making an odd amount of burgers is because even I can only eat one of these when having chips too, so two for Mr Bennett and one for me!



To make 3 burgers - you will need:

400g of skinless chicken breast fillet (that's 2 large or 3 small fillets)
3 spring onions - sliced
a squeeze of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of Shaoxing (Chinese rice wine)
2 tablespoons of cornflour
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon Soy sauce
1/2 a tablespoon of hot and sweet chilli sauce (Maggi)
3 x red birds eye chillies - deseeded and finely chopped
1/2 a teaspoon of sesame oil
a little salt and pepper to season
a little vegetable oil

To Serve:

Burgers buns with sesame seeds on top, baby gem lettuce and tomato slices.

I also made some lime mayonnaise:

About tablespoons of Hellmanns mayonnaise and the zest of half a lime and a squeeze of lime juice - mix together.

How to make the burgers:

Use a knife to chop the chicken as a food processor will make the chicken too mushy. Dice the chicken fillets into quite small pieces and put them into a bowl.
Now add the spring onions, lemon juice, rice wine, cornflour, brown sugar, soy sauce, hot and sweet chilli sauce, sesame oil, chopped (deseeded) chillies and seasoning.
Give it all a good mix and add a little more cornflour if you need to and shape the mixture into three burgers.

First of all I split the burger buns in half and placed them on the griddle to toast them slightly. Once done remove and set aside.

I used an electric griddle but you can use a grill pan over a medium heat. These burgers, I don't think would not stand up to cooking on a BBQ as they are quite gooey before cooked.

Fry the chicken burgers for about 5 or 6 minutes on each side or until they are cooked through.

Now put a chicken burger on each bun half and top with the other half of the bun, lettuce and tomato. Serve with sweet potato chips and lime mayonnaise.

Recipe for home made burgers

Bit of a shame - the picture is more of the chips than the burger......I must try harder with my pictures!

Ingredients

250g Minced Pork - with low fat content

250g Minced Beef - with low fat content

1 Large Onion

Salt and Pepper to Taste

Worcestershire Sauce to Taste

Handful of Freshly Chopped Parsley

Freshly Chopped Chives

Yolk of 1 Egg

Method

Finely chop the onions in a blender, remove and put into a mixing bowl.

Now put the pork and beef in and give it a few seconds - you do not want the meat to be too finely chopped.

Remove and add to the onions.

Finely chop the parsley and chives and add to the same bowl along with the yolk of one egg.

Season with salt and pepper and about 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce and mix well with a fork.

Make into 4 burger shapes using your hands and shallow fry in a little vegetable oil until cooked through.