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Encouraging a Third Generation of Cooks
My husband and I are both avid cooks so we are thrilled that three of six grandchildren are having fun (and developing real skills) in the kitchen.
The oldest grandson is a senior in high school and bakes bread, experiments with Chinese dumplings and has already fixed on his favorite way to cook burgers. Since about age ten, he'll suggest to his grandpa, "Maybe we could cook a meal together." And so grandpa and grandson plan, shop for and cook a meal, often an elaborate undertaking where the teaching goes both directions. For his birthday, he picks out a cooking class and he and Grandpa go together.
The youngest grandson R, age 10, is always enthusiastic about baking surprise cakes for his parents, mixing up Baked Pumpkin Donuts & Donut Holes – and he just might make the best chocolate chip cookies on the planet. So good!
The second-youngest grandson J, also age 10 (yes, they're twins!) is always thinking up creative new combinations, often engineering feats. For his grandpa's birthday last month, he disappeared into the kitchen, then emerged with chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches. So good! And yes, this is the grandson who thought up his soon-to-be-famous Oil Tanker Burgers.
Do we have budding chefs in our midst? Who knows, who knows ... but it's enough that these kids are learning their ways around the kitchen and building confidence in their results: life skills that will long pay off.
Enter the "Oil Tank Burger": No "Recipe" Required
The name may be inexplicable but Oil Tanker Burgers are no more complicated than good burgers and everyday burger condiments stacked up in a particular order. The result is ... a towering-good burger!
J and his grandpa cooked Oil Tankers for my birthday this month. With a little organizational help from me, we served the burgers buffet style, arranging the condiments one after the other so that people could build their own burgers with the condiments in the right order.
I've been obsessed every since! In fact, I had another recipe ready to share today and nixed it early this morning, just so you'd have the chance to taste an Oil Tanker Burger for yourself ... and sooner than later.
Coming Up? An All-Bacon Dinner.
Heaven help us but this family's third-generation cooks are strategizing for a multi-course bacon dinner. We just need a date ... and a lot of bacon. I shall provide a full report ...
OIL TANKER BURGERS
Time-to-table: about 30 minutes
Makes 1 to many
- Toasted burger buns (toasted buns are essential!)
- Ketchup (try not to squirt it all over the plate)
- Hamburger dill chip pickles (no sweet pickles, please)
- Just-cooked burger patties (cooked how you please)
- A slice of juicy summer tomato (as ripe as can be)
- A thin slice (or a ring) of white or sweet onion (don't skip)
- Yellow ballpark mustard (nothing fancy)
Order is important, stack the ingredients in the order listed, extra points if you squirt the mustard in a way that looks like a "sun". Dig in!
Cook the burgers however you like, we're partial to browning the burgers on cast iron, then finishing in the oven. This is a great way to serve burgers for a crowd, just set up a buffet line with the condiments in the right order. Add a salad or two and a big watermelon: you've got yourself a feast.
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Your grandson is super cute! And we’re going to try his super tanker this weekend, they look excellent.
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