Yesterday my husband asked for a dinner with the “spinach” burgers I used to make in Senegal. After searching most of the day, I finally found the recipe card in my Fanny Farmer cookbook that is miraculously here in Stuttgart. Lucky hubby. The recipe card, not in my handwriting, must have be given to me by an acquaintance. I have never written anything on a recipe card in my life! I remembered that the burgers were tasty and so was happy to try them again.
I loved the colors in the mixture; tomato, goat cheese, spinach, ground steak, dill and onion. At this point, I just wanted to mix and stir fry this in a pan and eat it like that, but I responsibly formed it into patties. So far so good.
From the very beginning, I had my doubts about the patties holding up in the frying pan and wanted to add an egg but couldn’t remember if I had done this in Senegal. Still, I should have in Stuttgart. They barely came out in one piece. This experience and my lead photograph reminded me of the food pictures on Plan 59 of “Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine” from the 50s. http://www.plan59.com/galleries/scarykids/scarykids.htm Check out this site it’s entertaining 🙂
The burgers tasted great but next time I’ll add an egg.
Spinach Burgers
1 lb ground steak
1 cup baby spinach, vaguely chopped
1/4 onion, chopped
1 tomato, seeded and chopped
1/2 cup goat cheese, crumbled
1 tsp dried dill
Salt and pepper
1 egg, beaten (optional)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp butter
In a large bowl, mix together the ground steak, spinach, onion, tomato, goat cheese, dill, salt, pepper and egg (if using). Form the mixture into patties and fry in the olive oil and butter.
I’m not generally a burger fan (I’m saving that for my old age when I’ve got no teeth left), but you certainly have some good flavours in there!
Do you suppose those kids were considered cute back in the 50’s?
Of course we thought they were cute, Mad! Companies sold their products with these ads! Our tastes have, pun, changed 🙂
Haha.. that’s quite the website!! Those kids were demonic looking! But not your burgers.. your cooking always turns out.. with or without that egg, I’d tuck into one of those burgers any day:)
Thank you Barbara. I found that website years ago and thought it was hilarious.
Scary kids! I usually use an egg for meatballs as they are small but not for burgers. Sometimes they fall apart a bit.
I thought with the tomato, onion, spinach and feta that it could have used more holding together. I usually don’t put anything in burgers except salt and pepper.
It can be funny, if I make it too moist it sometimes has trouble holding together.
Scary kids indeed! Don’t often make burgers but I think I need to try these – love all the flavours.
They taste very good.
Great mix of flavors. I’m a huge fan of 50s advertising pictures – it was a different world then!
It certainly was!
Cheese in a beef patty, now that is interesting and sound crazy delicious.
Was good 🙂
I made this on Saturday for my family. Although I used egg, I did have trouble keeping some of the patties together. I also substituted feta for the goat cheese.
It was very tasty & flavorful.
I poured marinara over some of the leftovers for lunch. It was also quite good.
It did taste good! I’m going to try the egg next time and maybe the marinara too 🙂