Hungarian Entree
HUNGARIAN BURGER WRAP
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 medium onions
1 garlic clove
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1/2 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon parsley
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon thyme
1/3 cup sour cream
1/4 cup beef broth
8 large lettuce leaves
PREPARATION
Mince onion and garlic. In mixing bowl, make hamburger patties with beef, onion, garlic, paprika, parsley, pepper, sea salt, and sour cream. Fry patties in pan on medium-high heat for about 10 minutes. Flip patties over about every 3 minutes. Pour half of the beef broth on the burger each time you flip the burgers. This moistens the patties. (No, no I’m still not ready to use the word . . . moisturize.)
TIDBITS
1) Why does this recipe use lettuce wraps instead of hamburger buns?
2) I didn’t have any hamburger buns. I was just at the store and didn’t want to go back again and the patties were already cooked when I discovered the buns’ absence.
3) It would have been nice if the local supermarket could have catapulted some buns to me.
4) But they don’t have that service and seem positively disinclined to start catapulting anything to customers.
5) Besides what would happen if the catapulted burgers accidentally landed on a diver at a high-school swim meet? It would throw off his dive, give him a bad score and maybe cause his high school to lose.
6) And what if the catapulted hamburger buns triggered the army’s automatic missile defense system? The army’s intercepting missile would hit the buns. The buns would explode. Bun bits would coat houses all over the neighborhood.
7) The army would also assume we were under attack by a vicious unseen enemy. Our armed forces would go to the highest level of readiness possible.
8) Other nuclear nations would see this and believe we were preparing for a nuclear first strike.
9) They’d preempt our imagined nuclear strike with one of their own.
10) We’d retaliate. It’d be the end of the world.
11) All because I wanted buns when I could have made do with lettuce leaves.
12) Lettuce is no threat at all to cause nuclear war. It provides fiber as well!
13) Yay, lettuce.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
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