Monday, February 9, 2009

Sushi and Juicy Lucy

We had a houseful of friends this weekend. Chris and Abby were here (who you met in a couple of older posts) along with Chris's brother, Graham (Big Sal) and their friend Chad (Green Bay.) Chris likes to nickname everyone. The Nelson brothers love to eat as much as I do and the weekend revolved around fishing and eating.We had planned to make sushi on Sunday but Big Sal was very adamant that sushi was never going to fill him up and thought we should have more food. As we were standing around a campfire on Saturday night, we started talking about good places to eat and the boys had eaten at a bar called Matt's that had hamburgers called Juicy Lucys. They are basically stuffed hamburgers. Green Bay said he could make them at home so we decided we would also have stuffed hamburgers. We didn't want Big Sal to go home with his tummy rumbling . I put Green Bay in charge of the hamburgers the next day and he did an excellent job. He built them with one thin hamburger patty, a slice of velvetta cheese, creole seasoning and another thin patty. Then he mashed the patties together to form a seal and put them on the grill. By the time people started rolling into the driveway that afternoon, the smell of those burgers were almost enough to get a vegatarian to switch. We actually did have a couple of vegatarians there who said if they were going to switch, those burgers were where they would start.We cooked some onions and mushrooms in aluminum foil on the grill as toppings for the burgers. At one point I saw some flames shooting out of the grill and started to worry but Green Bay was calm, cool and collected and rescued the burgers by putting them on the top grill. He gets high cooking points for the weekend.

The burgers were delicious, with lots of hot, gooey cheese dripping down the sides of the bum when you took your first bite. I will probably never make burgers the same way again.

While Green Bay was busily grilling, Chris and I cooked rice, cut up fish and veggies and got ready to roll sushi. We had three bamboo mats so three people could roll.




We let the rice cool down and it was time to roll. Hannah really got into it.



Big Sal had to admit that he would have gotten filled up on sushi because we kept cranking out the rolls.



May your house be too small for your friends!