{"id":1574,"date":"2008-01-07T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2008-01-07T21:04:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:04:34","slug":"cooking-maple-bacon-jalapeno-jack-cheeseburgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1574","title":{"rendered":"Cooking: Maple Bacon Jalape\u00c3\u00b1o Jack Cheeseburgers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the secret to keeping one&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s resolutions is making the right resolutions.  Yesterday Laura and I marched down to Whole Foods and dropped somewhere around $120 in groceries, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that we bought enough stuff to keep us in chow for a week or two.  Tonight I finally got to try out a recipe I&#8217;d had my eye on for months in Jamie Oliver&#8217;s <i><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/JAMIES-DINNERS-ESSENTIAL-FAMILY-COOKBOOK\/dp\/B000YFEDJU\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1199757582&#038;sr=8-1\">Jamie&#8217;s Dinners<\/a><\/i> &#150; his recipe for really good hamburgers.<br \/>\nIn true chef fashion we futzed with it a bit, cutting the coriander and cumin and upping the amount of egg (he calls for one egg for eight burgers, and we used one egg for four), topped it with jalape\u00c3\u00b1o jack cheese and some really amazing maple rub bacon, and served it up on toasted buns with buttered green beans and rosemary-and-olive-oil red potato wedges.  Beer on the side &#150; Killian&#8217;s red for her and Samuel Adams for me.  We just finished dinner and I&#8217;m absolutely stuffed, but if we get the munchies later we still have lemon crumble pie for dessert.<br \/>\nLiving that well <i>can not<\/i> be good for you.  I estimate that meal would&#8217;ve run us $40-$50 <i>easy<\/i> someplace like Applebee&#8217;s&#8230;  And it was <i>so much better.<\/i>  Screw eating out &#150; home cooking is <i>so<\/i> the way to go!<br \/>\nAlso of note: for those of you who read this blog through RSS feeds, I&#8217;ve updated the collection of Flickr selections on the side of this page to get a little green back onto these parts.  Nothing like the brown, dreary days after the holidays to send a man yearning for the next three months to go flying by&#8230;  These pics were all grabbed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winstonflowers.com\/\">Winston Flowers &#038; Garden<\/a> in Newton, Massachusetts the last time my folks were in town, which was back in September.  Someday it&#8217;ll be green around here again, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the secret to keeping one&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s resolutions is making the right resolutions. Yesterday Laura and I marched down to Whole Foods and dropped somewhere around $120 in groceries, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that we bought enough stuff to keep us in chow for a week or two. Tonight I finally got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-po","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}