Martha Stewart best hamburgers modified

 Best Beef Burger

I've modified this recipe slightly. I use only one pound of ground beef so I use half the ingredients of the original recipe.

I've been making burgers like this for years. They just don't taste right unless I make them this way.  

By Martha Stewart Test Kitchen

Updated on May 16, 2017

Prep Time:

5 mins

Total Time:

25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pounds ground chuck

• 1½ teaspoons yellow mustard

• 1½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

• Coarse salt and pepper or Lawry's seasoned salt 

• 4 hamburger buns

Directions

1. Heat grill to high. In a medium bowl, use a fork to gently combine beef, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce; season with salt and pepper. Gently form mixture into four 1-inch-thick patties.

2. Place patties on hottest part of grill; sear until browned, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Move patties to cooler part of grill; continue grilling until desired doneness, 4 to 8 minutes per side.

3. Split the hamburger buns and toast on the grill if you like; place a burger on each bun and serve with the desired accompaniments.

Variations

Suggested accompaniments: cheese slices, sliced beefsteak tomatoes, red and white onions(raw or grilled), ketchup, mustard, pickles, mayonnaise, Boston lettuce leaves 

Jiffy Texmex Cornbread Casserole

Jiffy Cornbread Tamale Pie

Ingredients

Ground beef mixture

    1 pound ground beef

    4 oz. green chiles

    10 oz. red enchilada sauce

    1 Tbsp. dried minced onion

    1 tsp. chili powder

    1 tsp. garlic salt

    1-1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

    1/2 cup sour cream

Jiffy Cornbread Topping

    2 boxes Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix

    1 egg

    1/3 cup milk

    1/2 cup sour cream

    1/4 cup vegetable oil

    14.75 oz. can cream corn

Instructions

Ground Beef Mixture

    Preheat oven to 350-degrees and grease a 9" x 13" casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray. Be sure to spray the sides and bottom of the pan for easy clean-up.

    Brown the ground beef.

    Drain the grease off of the ground beef.

    Add the ground beef, green chiles, enchilada sauce, minced onion, garlic salt, and chili powder to a large bowl.

    Add the sour cream and shredded cheese and mix well.

    Pour into the greased casserole dish.

Jiffy Cornbread Topping

    In another bowl, add the two boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, egg, milk, vegetable oil, sour cream, and cream corn and mix well.

    Pour over the ground beef mixture and spread it out evenly over the top.

    Bake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven or until the top is golden brown and cake tester or knife comes out clean.

Air Fryer frozen pierogi's

Air Fryer frozen pierogi's 

Toss in oil

Set in the air fryer for 8-10 minutes 400 degrees F, (air fryer setting) after 4 minutes flip the pierogies, and continue the time.

Alternative recipe says 370F for 15 minutes

Air Fryer eggs in the hole

Preheat ninja flip to 350°F

2 eggs

2 slices bread

Butter flavored cooking spray

S&P

Cook 8 minutes

Press down the center of the bread leaving an indentation large enough to accommodate an egg or if you prefer, cut a hole into the center of the bread.

Lay the bread onto a baking tray covered in parchment and sprayed with butter cooking spray 

I happen to have a baking tray that perfectly accomodations 2 slices of bread side by side. 

Crack an egg into the indentation or hole of each slice of bread.

Carefully slide into the oven on the wire rack.

Set timer for 8 minutes.

This cooks my eggs the way I like them, runny inside but white covering the yolk.

Cook a little longer if you want a harder yolk.

I generally salt and pepper my eggs after they are done. I think salt makes the egg whites rubbery if they are salted before cooking, but you do you. 

Remove from oven and enjoy your breakfast. 

The BEST Air Fryer Oven potato wedges

This is my opinion.

I use a Ninja Foodie Flip oven.

Your milage may vary.

Air Fryer or Air Roast setting

400°F

30 minutes total bake time.

Flip and rotate half way through

 Ingredients:

Potatoes, I used a couple larger red potatoes

Extra virgin olive oil

Lowry's seasoned salt

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400°F in Air Fry or Air Roast setting whilst you prepare your spuds. Preheating longer than the 30 seconds it beeps at to signal it's ready makes the oven heat more even and closer to the true temp imo. 

Line the baking tray with parchment.

Cut the washed and dried potatoes into wedges, about 8 wedges per potato. It's important that the potatoes are completely dry. 

I used red potatoes but I'm sure this works on any kind you prefer.

Toss the potatoes in enough oil to coat and season liberally with Lowry's seasons salt or whatever you prefer.

Toss to coat everything.

Lay the wedges out in a single layer on the prepared baking tray leaving some space between the wedges to make sure they bake, not steam.

Place the pan of potatoes in the oven on the wire rack. 

(Note, you can cook some chicken parts along side the potatoes if you so wish.). I season mine the same as the wedges, with oil and Lowry's.

Set the timer for 15 minutes then flip each wedge and chicken and rotate the tray 90 degrees. Set timer for 15 minutes more.

Check the internal temp of the chicken to make sure it's done. Remove from oven.

While my chicken rested a few minutes, I left the wedges in the oven. They were done but it didn't hurt them to bake a while longer. 😋

Microwave omelet

3 eggs

Splash of milk

S&P

Cheese

Butter spray

9 inch pie plate

Plastic wrap

50% power

Spray pie plate

Mix 3 eggs well with a splash of milk and pour in pie plate. Cover and nuke at 50% for 5 minutes until top is glossy.

Add S&P and cheese, fold in half and nuke at 50% for 30 more seconds.

microwave corn on the cob

You don't need to shuck corn before cooking then in the microwave.

Cut the ends off so you can push the ear out when it's done.

Place in microwave on a plate. Cook 4 minutes on high.

Since the corn will be screaming hot, wear silicone pinchers and squeeze that baby out of the husk.

Usually, you won't even have to clean any silk off.

Butter liberally and salt and pepper and enjoy! 🌽

microwave poached eggs

Ingredients

2 eggs

1/2 cup of water

Place water in bowl and carefully crack eggs into the water. Try not to break the yolks.

Cover and vent. Place in the nuker and cook on high for a minute or two, depending on the size of your eggs, thickness of your bowl and wattage of your nuker.

My 1100 watt microwave cooks 2 eggs in about 1:45 minutes.

Place on toast. Enjoy.