{"id":2654,"date":"2012-04-28T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2012-05-26T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:55:37","slug":"not-your-fast-food-burger-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2012\/04\/28\/not-your-fast-food-burger-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT your fast food burger & fries!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cheeseburger<\/a>One of my favorite meals has always been a cheeseburger and french fries, but I don’t eat them much any more, certainly not at a fast food restaurant (or even a chain restaurant), where the fries would almost certainly be cooked in unhealthy vegetable oil, the meat would likely be CAFO, and the condiments would include lots of MSG and high fructose corn syrup.\u00a0 when I decided I\u00a0would really like to have\u00a0a burger and fries, I wanted to try to make\u00a0them as healthy as possible.<\/p>\n

Here’s how I made my burger & fries, along with some<\/em> compromises for convenience.\u00a0 First, the hamburger meat is, of course, local and grassfed (Law Ranch Cattle Company<\/a>),\u00a0cooked medium, still a little pink inside, since I know where it came from and how it was processed.\u00a0 The meat was lightly pattied and turned out tender and juicy.\u00a0 Then I\u00a0double fried\u00a0organic potatoes (not local, but seemed fairly fresh) in goose fat and salted them with a little Celtic Sea Salt.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0\u00a0It was the first time I’d used goose fat to fry potatoes and they were delicious!\u00a0 The condiments included tender lettuce and juicy, red-ripe tomato (both bought at the farmers market this morning from the Winter Family Farm, Santa Fe, TX), a homemade dill pickle spear (made with the\u00a0Nourishing Traditions<\/em> dill pickle recipe), organic prepared mustard, and unsweetened ketchup (unfortunately, not organic).\u00a0 The cheddar cheese slice\u00a0was made with whole\u00a0milk without artificial hormones or rBST, but was not raw milk cheese.\u00a0 I think the biggest compromise was the bun, a white flour, non-organic, non-soaked bun, but it was at least\u00a0freshly-made at a local bakery, not pulled from a grocery store plastic bag.\u00a0 We did improve the buns by grilling them in real butter.\u00a0 We eat bread\u00a0so rarely, that it’s not worth keeping the ingredients and equipment to make it myself.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s what was for dinner this evening and was it oh so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite meals has always been a cheeseburger and french fries, but I don’t eat them much any more, certainly not at a fast food restaurant (or even a chain restaurant), where the fries would almost certainly be …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,13,17,172,18,19,9,177],"tags":[41,35,188,40,32,178],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farmers-markets","category-healthy-fats","category-local-farming","category-nutrition","category-organic-food","category-real-food","category-traditional-food","category-whats-for-dinner","tag-grassfed-beef","tag-healthy-fats-2","tag-meals","tag-organic","tag-recipes-2","tag-whats-for-dinner-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-GO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}