America Loves Hamburger: The 101 Top Recipes - Cookbook Review

America Loves Hamburger: The 101 Top Recipes - Cookbook Review

Summary

According to author Linda West Eckhardt, you might like your hamburger with mustard and ketchup. You might like your burger with mayonnaise, lettuce and tomatoes. Almost anyone you know sneaks off for a burger every now and then!

This is a subject about which everyone has an opinion!

It turns out that not only do Americans like ground beef for hamburgers, but also for meatloaves, stir-fries, microwave dishes, chilies, soups and stews. Hamburger even is used in salads and appetizers!

Cooking ground beef is fast, easy and there are not a ton of dishes to wash afterward.

The following are some recipes from this cookbook:

*The All-American Hamburger

The meat is not fancied up with fillings. The bun is a plain hamburger bun.

2 pounds lean ground beef, hamburger buns, yellow ballpark mustard (personally, I think that any mustard is good), mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, onions and pickles!

Don’t forget to fry those French fries that are in your freezer! (Have some available in your freezer for quick grab and go! I personally like to buy a bag or 2 at Dollar Tree for $1.25 per bag.)

*Fried Green Tomato Burger

All that you need for this burger is a big glass of sweet tea! (Offer some “fake” sweet tea too for those that can’t have sugar. Simply prepare some unsweetened iced tea with packets of sugar-free sweetener available)

Lean ground beef, salt and pepper to taste, vegetable oil or lard, green tomatoes, yellow cornmeal, white grocery store bread and lots of Miracle Whip!

*Laurie Howard’s Cabbage Patch Soup

Prepare a batch of cornbread to go with this recipe!

Lean ground beef, chili powder, onion, shredded green cabbage, celery, water, chili beans, Italian-style stewed tomatoes with juice, hot mashed potatoes and salt and pepper to taste.

*Midwestern Hamburger Stew

A one-dish dinner, yet another recipe that goes good with cornbread!

Beef broth, chunks of carrots, onions, lean ground beef, 2 percent milk, all-purpose flour, butter or margarine, small red potatoes, parsley, salt and pepper to taste.

*Hamburger Chowder

Serve with saltines for a delicious mid-winter dinner.

Bacon cut into 1-pieces, butter or margarine, onions, celery in 1/4-inch pieces, sugar, lean ground beef, water, 2 pounds of russett potatoes and fresh or frozen corn kernels and salt to tast

*Eckhardt’s Hopped-Up Hamburger

Especially good on English muffins, with mustard and mayonnaise, frilly lettuce, thick home-grown tomatoes, tons of onion and sweet bread-and-butter pickles!

Lean ground beef, cayenne pepper, black pepper, grated yellow onion, Worcestershire sauce and hot prepared mustard.

Opinion

Out of all of the recipes that I have highlighted, my very favorite is Eckhardt’s Hopped-Up Hamburger! I usually fry my burgers in an air fryer though with lots of Worcestershire sauce. As for mustard, I simply like to use deli mustard from the local Dollar Tree for $1.25! People are always giving myself English muffins. I am always placing the English muffins in the freezer for a rainy day. I never thought to have English muffins with hamburgers!

Not very recipes in this cookbook call for cheese which is very disappointing. I was taught to have cheeseburgers.

When reviewing cookbooks, I look for recipes that have ingredients that are easy to find, ingredients that are cheap, recipes that are easy to prepare and of course, are the dishes delicious!

This cookbook would be a good gift for the “professional” BBQ person in your family. You can find a copy on sale on Amazon for a low cost. However, I think borrowing a copy from the local library would be awesome too.

I give Linda West Eckhardt’s hamburger cookbook a 5-star rating!