food comma: part food blog, part family cookbook, I was in a turkey-burger mood last week, which led to this (and two others like it, one for my brother Mike and a tinier one for my mom). I mixed an excessive amount of minced garlic and black pepper with the ground turkey and let the patties rest while I cooked the crimini mushrooms and caramelized the onions.
Given the shape of the patties — I should have made them much flatter and less like “giant turkey bricks,” in Mike’s words — adding avocado and a fried egg to each burger was perhaps a tactical error, since the whole experience got pretty messy. Mike only let me take one picture of him, and he had already managed to wipe some egg yolk off of his face.
Our dinner probably wasn’t pretty, but it was pretty tasty (especially with the shaved grana padano, which I have since been tempted to put on everything I eat).
