July 2, 2022 Issue, Page 17 of 20

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FREEDOM |Saturday, July 2, 2022 PG9 Take your Fourth of July burgers up a notch holidays like Easter and Memo- with butter and serve hot in sesa- utes. To serve, roll back foil and rial Day, and the Fourth of July me buns. cut into 12-inch slices. When slic- does not figure to be any different. Outdoor cooking: ing from frozen, warm the knife Fourth of July celebrations often Grill over hot coals for 3 min- under hot water first. After slicing, take place in the backyard by the utes per side for rare, 4 minutes per always tightly rewrap the unused grill, and this year marks a perfect side for medium rare, or 5 minutes flavored butter roll in the foil be- opportunity to expand your cu- per side for well done. Place buns fore returning to refrigerator or linary repertoire. This recipe for cut side down on grill until warm freezer. “Best Burger With Blue Cheese and lightly golden, 1 minute. Best Burger Variations Butter” courtesy of Eric Treuille Indoor cooking: * Herbed Burger: Add 2 tea- and Birgit Erath’s “Grilling” (DK. Preheat a ridged cast-iron grill spoons fresh thyme leaves or | Publishing) offers a new take on a pan over high heat. Cook for 3 teaspoon dried thyme, 1 crushed backyard barbecue staple. minutes per side for rare, 4 min- garlic clove and 1 tablespoon fine- Best Burger With Blue Cheese utes per side for medium rare, or ly chopped onion to the ground Butter 5 minutes per side for well done. steak. Serves 4 Place buns cut side down on grill 1 pound ground chuck steak * Spicy Burger: Add 1/2 teaspoon pan until warm lightly golden, 1 tabasco, 1 tablespoon Worcester- 2 teaspoons salt minute. 1 teaspoon black pepper Blue-Cheese Butter shire sauce and | teaspoon Dijon 4 V2-inch slices blue cheese Makes 15 servings mustard to the ground steak. The year 2020 is one few peo- The sacrifices made in response Think ahead: butter (see below) 16 tablespoons unsalted butter, ple will soon forget. Life changed to COVID-19 are perhaps most 4 sesame hamburger buns, softened Shape burgers up to 1 day in dramatically and perhaps forever noticeable on holidays, when peo- halved 4 ounces (1 cup crumbled) blue advance. Cover with plastic wrap in 2020, when the outbreak of ple accustomed to gathering with Combine ground steak with salt cheese and refrigerate. the novel coronavirus COVID-19 family and friends were unable to and pepper. Divide into 4 equal- 2 teaspoons black pepper Cooks’ Note: Overhandling the forced billions of people across do so, or only able to do so on lim- sized pieces and gently shape into Place ingredients in a food pro- meat when shaping will result in the globe to make sacrifices in an ited terms. 4 burgers about 1-inch-thick. Grill cessor or blender; pulse until well a tough, dry burger. To guarantee effort to prevent the spread of the Despite those restrictions, burgers and warm buns according blended. Wrap in foil. Place in the a juicy burger, handle the meat as potentially deadly virus. people continued to celebrate on to instructions below. Top burgers. freezer until hard, about 45 min- little as possible. One of the largest metal suppliers between OKC and Amarillo HAPPY 2400 Sq. Ft. Showroom Wrenches, sockets, K & T Air Compressor Accessories, zip ties ) DAY__! and more! uM |Structual Stee! - Welding Supplies + Specialty Gases - Trailer Parts - Fabrication 580-225-6554 918 N. Van Buren Elk City, OK 73644 www.janningwelding.com