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Posted: 12:00 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012
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Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
I’ve got cheeseburgers on the brain. It’s a culinary obsession of mine, and it also happens to be National Cheeseburger Day on Tuesday. Not that every food holiday triggers a craving in me. A few days ago, it was National TV Dinner day, and that triggered zilch.
But I do heart cheeseburgers. Single cheeseburgers. Double cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers with pickles or onions, or both, or neither. Give me a seared beef patty, plump beneath an ooze of melted cheese, and I’m a happy woman.
What kind of cheese? Cheddar, jack, blue, brie, gouda, smoked provolone – if it’s flavorful and melts, it works for me.
A day like this meaty holiday takes me back to one of the best burgers I’ve tasted, star chef Michael Symon’s Yo! Burger at the 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Topped with provolone, pickled onion and his tangy hot pepper “ShaSha” sauce, this burger’s secret weapon proved to be none of the above. Its winning component was a thin disc of crispy fried salami nestled between the cheese and the bun.
It was brilliant.
To have a burger like that on a day like National Cheeseburger Day would be a very delicious thing.
Then again, I’d settle for a Lola Burger. I came across this burger while leafing through Symon’s 2009 Live to Cook book (Clarkson Potter). At once, it combined so many things I love: the cheeseburger, the chef, and the name. (Lola is the name of my sweet pup.)
Of course, the chef not only uses a mix of brisket, beef cheek and sirloin, he grinds it himself, favoring a 75 to 25 beef-to-fat ratio (that’s what I’m talkin’ about). He serves the cheddar-topped patties atop toasted English muffins and layers in dill pickles, bacon and pickled red onions. That Lola’s a showgirl indeed.
Granted, there are some terrific cheeseburgers out there around town, from Chuck Burger Joint in Palm Beach Gardens (where you can notch up your cheeseburger with bacon and a cage-free fried egg) to BurgerFi in Delray (where you can get the Ultimate Cheeseburger, a double-patty prime brisket burger topped with Swiss and blue cheeses, lettuce, tomato, pickles and secret sauce).
But whether you decide to grab a burger on the town, or celebrate the occasion quietly at home, you’d better get a move on, my cheeseburger-loving kindred souls. Before you know it, it will be Wednesday.
And this week, Wednesday is otherwise known as National Butterscotch Pudding day.
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