Welcome to Questionable Gourmet, a new feature on MattBooker.info where I post about the things I like to cook. Most of it will be original recipes. All of it stuff I find interesting.
For a bit of background (and a warning), I’m self taught when it comes to making food. I grew up with meat and taters, and my mom did the vast majority of the cooking.
It wasn’t ’til I moved out on my own that I started cooking, but even then it was just to get me through those times when fast food wasn’t feeling much like food. Box mixes weren’t too difficult, just mixing the stuff and baking it for how long it suggested. Canned food was even easier. :)
Then I was dating a girl that said she liked to cook. Notice how I worded that? Saying you like to cook and cooking well are different things. Most of it wasn’t bad, even if it wasn’t good, but the last culinary straw came when she tried to make burgers. They looked like hockey pucks!
If hockey pucks were raised in the middle.
So, kind of like a mix of a football and a hockey puck.
That I could not stand for. Meat should be butchered, but not that kind of butchered. Over the course of a few weeks, I started cooking burgers. I hadn’t done it before, and it took a few tries to get the method where I wanted it. There were some that didn’t come out right, but all of them were various kinds of tasty.
And during that, I realized something.
