Friday, April 17, 2009

Dad's night IN. N OUT night for Mom

"Why do you always make good things when I go out?" - Erinn

First off, Erinn hasn't had many (any?) nights out since Simon made his entrance almost a year ago, so when she did get an opportunity to go do something, I encouraged it - especially because it usually means I get to wrap bacon around something before I grill it.

Tonight I went for something different. An homage to the tastiest fast food burger in California, the Double-Double Animal Style from In-N-Out. It's almost made as many appearances on the blog as Callie has, so readers of this blog shouldn't be unfamiliar with it.

The official description from In-N-Out's website says:

"Burger of your choice with hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, American cheese, a mustard cooked beef patty; add pickle, extra spread, with grilled onions."

Seemed simple enough.

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Grilled onions: Check

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Hand-leafed lettuce: check
Tomato: check
Two slices of American cheese: check
Pickles: check (I went with the Chic-Fil-A approach of just two pickle slices)
Extra spread: check (I recreated the spread with relish and Thousand Island dressing)

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Two mustard grilled patties: Indeed. (Actually, I had no idea what this meant in the description. So I just grilled the patty over a squeeze of yellow mustard.)

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Oh look, steam! That's how you know it's working.

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The facsimile was a little taller than the original. I ate it anyway.

2 comments:

Flip Flops On 5th said...

Kenneth introduced me to these burgers when we went to Vegas. I applaud your effort to make one!

Kenneth said...

Very Nice.

While looking for official instructions regarding the "mustard cooked patties," I came across this: http://fantasymenu.blogspot.com/

Very funny.

Oh, and I think that your interpretation of a mustard-grilled patty is certainly reasonable and probably correct. I was just seeing if anybody else had written about it.