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Welcome to the new Campervan Chef blog! This started out life as a blog called 'Kylie's Kitchen' and ran out of steam some time ago. Since then life has changed and Kylie's Kitchen as it stood is no more. I started out as an an enthusiastic home cook but now work as a chef and cook for others in all sorts of situations. You'll find out more about this side of me if you keep tabs on my scribbles on here. I blog about food and cooking, life, family, friends and pets. I will also be keeping you up to date with our travels to our second home; the beautiful Greek island of Skiathos and the dog shelter we support there. Join us as our journey through life continues...

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Barbie time!

Well the sun came out again after a brief rainy spell so the barbie went ahead as planned.  Well, I say as planned...as planned about 3 hours ago when we invited Annie (and Jack of course) and The Woo's dad over.  Ben's working so dropped them off, stayed for a bit and then went to earn his daily crust.

Decided to make a few burgers and get some fresh air in the late afternoon sunshine.  It's absolutely belting out there at the moment.


Burgers are easy and everyone has their own favourite way but these are so simple and relatively cheap.

In a bowl I mixed up 800g of steak mince, a finely chopped red onion, a clove of garlic also finely chopped, a sprinkle of dried

oregano, a squeeze of tomato puree and some sea salt and pepper.  This was all mixed together with an egg yolk and then divided into burgers.  I use a small 8cm mould to get them roughly the same size and tightly packed.  This amount made eight large and two small Jack sized burgers.  In the fridge for an hour and then on the hot coals.  We had ours with a salad made by The Woo and a warm potato salad into which was mixed a sliced fried red onion and some green beans from Arthur's garden.  Yummy!

Good job we made enough as Sam came home just as we finished eating and polished off the last couple of burgers.  Sunshine and lovely people.  Great stuff!

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