Teriyaki Burgers!

YUM! I’m in Toronto for an elective right now. My friend and I have been eating out way too much, so I made these turkey burgers for us yesterday! I took a picture, but that will have to wait for when I get back to Edmonton.

This is loosely based on a recipe off of Annies Eats, as well as these delicious teriyaki burgers we had while camping with Steph and Les once. This is my own version! It was super fun because I just made it up as I went along, using what ingredients we did have and not really measuring out anything. Try it out!

Teriyaki Burgers

1. Chop up onion into very small pieces (I used about 1/3 of an onion), as well as some bread crumbs (I shred up one end piece of whole wheat bread). Mix them with your choice of ground meat (I used ground turkey – healthy!) Mix them together thoroughly. Don’t be afraid to get dirty, I used my hands! (well, make sure your hands are clean though )

2. Add in the following ingredients…here are the approximate amounts I used:
- 3-5 tbsp soy sauce
- 1-2 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tbsp ground/diced garlic
- 3-4 tbsp sugar (white or brown – we didn’t have brown, and white was fine)
- 1 tsp vinegar (of your choice, we used a chinese vinegar)
- salt and pepper, dashes of each

3. Mix them all up again, and form your patties! Then cook those suckers up. You can top them with this pineapple/mango salsa recipe:

For the salsa:
1 mango, diced
1-1½ cups diced fresh pineapple
½ of one red bell pepper, diced small
¼ cup red onion, finely diced
1 tbsp. minced fresh cilantro
Juice of one lime
Pinch of coarse salt

Mmmmm…delicious. I also made sweet potato fries as a side. Sweet livin’ =)

No one in the world has SWAGer like us…

Sorry for the absence from posts! Life has been so silly with internal medicine consuming my life. But now I’m almost done psychiatry, so that’s no excuse for no posts!

Here’s a quick and dirty recipe that’s also super yummy and addicting. It’s great for those hot days where you just don’t want to turn the oven on, because it’s a no-bake recipe!

The original recipe is from the Cooking Light website, but I ran out of peanut butter, so i cut back on the recipe and added a more solid layer of chocolate on top (here you’re just supposed to drizzle it).

SWAG BARS
These no-bake bars come together quickly with common pantry ingredients. Make sure the cereal is well crushed (try packing it in a sealed zip-top plastic bag and using a rolling pin) so it incorporates into the peanut butter mixture.

Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup light-colored corn syrup
- 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) chopped lightly salted, dry-roasted peanuts
- 3 1/2 cups (4 ounces) whole-grain flaked cereal (such as Total), finely crushed
- 1/3 cup (2 ounces) chopped dark chocolate
Preparation
1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook 4 minutes or just until mixture begins to boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in peanuts and cereal. Spread mixture evenly into a 13 x 9–inch baking pan coated with cooking spray.
2. Place the dark chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at HIGH 1 minute or until chocolate melts, stirring every 20 seconds. Drizzle chocolate evenly over peanut mixture. Score into 36 bars while warm.

*I made these bars much smaller, bite-sized pieces because they’re very rich…so I probably got 40-50-some bars, and I didn’t even completely fill up the 13×9 inch pan! Make sure you grease the pan really well so that you can get them out. YUM!