Hiroshima Soy-Glazed Burger

Just thought I'd share one of my favorite recipes made by ... ME!

Seriously, try it!

INGREDIENTS:
[Soy Mix]
6T sugar
2T water, hot
6T soy sauce [Kikkoman preferred]

1 lb. ground beef [80% lean]
1 lb. ground pork
3/4C crumbled bread [Panko]
8T dry sake
1 medium yellow onion, minced
1 tsp. garlic, minced
1 egg
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
peanut oil

DIRECTIONS:
In a small bowl, mix water and sugar until sugar dissolves.
Add in soy sauce. Set aside.

Mix ground beef, ground pork, crumbled bread, 3T dry sake,
onion, garlic, egg, salt and pepper in a bowl. Prepare meat
in rectangular shapes; dimensions: 4” x 2½” x 1”. Set aside.

Heat pan over high heat until hot. Add oil and, when hot,
add meat. Sear for 1 minute [do not flatten or else you’ll
squeeze out the juices]. Turn over, add remaining sake and
cook over low heat. COVER. Cook for 5-7 minutes [for medium
rare] and 8-11 minutes [for medium well to well-done]. Remove
from pan and set aside. Clean pan.

Heat pan over high heat. Return burgers to pan. Add in soy
mixture and cook until it coats the burgers in a nice velvet
consistency, around 1 minute. Remove burger from pan. Pour
remaining soy mix from pan on burgers. Serve burgers on top
of stir-fried veggies or w/ mashed potatoes. Enjoy.

bitter.weekend

They call him, "The Prodigy." 13 wins - 4 losses ... at least before his complete beating from Georges St. Pierre. And what a beating it was ...

BJ Penn. 13 wins and now 5 losses. It's taken me 3 days to digest that my idol [who was so confident coming into this fight] would not only get beat, but gave up after 4 rounds.

"To the death George", he said. Pfft, whatever. All the hours of training, all that sweat and all that trash talk came down to ... well ... nothing.