Memorial Day Easy Entertaining Menu

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Menu: Serving 12:10
Gourmet Hamburger Bar
Hot potato salad with dill
Fruit Salad with Brown Sugar-Lime Dressing
Gran's Black Berry Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream

Gourmet Hamburger Bar
For 12 Hamburger
12 slices of bacon
1 package (12 ounces) sliced mushrooms
Salt
1 large red onion, about 1 / 4 inch thick slices cut
Olive oil for brushing
2 avocados, peeled, cored and sliced
Juice of 1 lemon
4 tomatoes, sliced
12red leaf lettuce leaves, washed and dried
Sliced sweet pickles
12 slices of various cheeses (Cheddar, Swiss, Jack, Pepper Jack)
4 pounds lean beef, roast beef, 7% fat or ground turkey or garden burger
salt 1 1 / 4 teaspoon kosher
2.1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Nonstick cooking spray
12 gourmet hamburger buns
Ketchup
Mustard
Mayonnaise

Fry the bacon in a frying pan, crisp, drain on kitchen paper. Fry mushrooms5 minutes remaining 1 tablespoon of bacon fat, season to taste salt. We recommend a few slices of grilled onions, though. Brush with olive oil and grill for 10-12 minutes, turn this time. Prepare the other side effects (avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and cheese). When cutting the spread avocado with the juice of 1 lemon. This will prevent them from turning black.
Mix the ground meat or enter Turkey with kosher salt and pepper in a large bowl. Form into 12 patties about 4.3 inchesthick. Lighting a fire in a barbecue or preheat a gas grill to medium term. Coat grill with cooking spray and grill hamburgers. Turn once, and not squish down with the spatula as squeeze all the juice. When the desired doneness (4-5 minutes per side) cooked, place a serving plate. If making cheeseburgers, cheese slices and let sit on the burgers on the grill until the cheese is soft and loose a bit ', probably no more than 1 minute. Both reviewersChoose your flooring from the gourmet bar.
Tip: Most grocery stores offer an assortment of gourmet sandwiches burgers, like potato, onion, or seven grain or you can get new bakery, French or ciabatta rolls from your own. For this meal, not cheap to buy the enriched white bread. The idea is gourmet burgers!

Hot potato salad with dill
Makes 10-12 servings
2 1 / 2 pounds potatoes (about 8 medium)
2 tsp salt to boil potatoes
4 eggs
3 stalksChopped celery
cup chopped onions 02:01
1 cup light mayonnaise
02:01 cup light cream
2 teaspoons chopped dill (preferably) or dried dill
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 1 / 4 teaspoon salt
2.1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Peel the potatoes with a potato peeler and cut into 1 inch pieces. Place in a saucepan and cover with water and 2 teaspoons of salt. Bring to boil, cover, adjust heat and cook for 18 to20 minutes, or until just tender when you stick the potatoes with a fork. Do not overcook. drain in a colander.
Meanwhile, the eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Adjust the heat and cover. Boil for 13 minutes. waste basket, the eggs back into the saucepan and cover with cold water. When eggs are cool, drain. Tap each egg on the counter and roll between palms of hands. Pull the eggshells. Discard the shells and chopEggs.
In a bowl, combine celery, onion, mayonnaise, sour cream, dill, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper. Add the potatoes and eggs. Mix well and refrigerate until serving.
Tip: Never leave unrefrigerated potato salad for a very long time. Eggs and mayonnaise to spoil quickly at room temperature and even faster if left in the sun.

Fruit Salad with Brown Sugar-Lime Dressing
Makes 10-12 servings
1 melon, cleaned and cut into 1 inchPiece
1 pint strawberries, cleaned and sliced
Four cups of seedless watermelon cubes (1 inch pieces)
1 cup red seedless grapes
2 cups diced fresh pineapple (1 inch pieces)
Brown Sugar-Lime Dressing
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
04:01 cup brown sugar
1 cup vanilla yogurt
Mixing give the fruits together in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate.
To make the mix of lime juice dressing, such as cane sugar and yogurt together in a small bowl. Add to fruit saladright before serving.

Tip: You can also use a melon baller to hollow balls of melon and watermelon.

Gran's Black Berry Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream
Makes 10-12 servings
04:03 cup unsalted butter (1 1 / 2 sticks), cut into 12 pieces
5 cups blackberries, fresh or thawed frozen
2 1 / 4 cups sugar, divided
2 cups plus 3 tablespoons unbleached flour divided
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups coldWater
2.1 liters of vanilla ice cream, purchased or homemade
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Melt the butter in a pan 9-13-inch oven. Meanwhile in a medium bowl, mix the blackberries, 1 / 4 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour, and pour over melted butter in a pan. In a bowl, combine the remaining 2 cups sugar and 2 cups flour with salt, baking soda and water, stirring with a whisk until the lumps are gone. Put this on your BlackBerryMixture and butter in pan and bake for 35-40 minutes. Warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream.
Variation: To cobbler fishing, leave the blackberries, 1 / 4 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour and add two 16 ounces of canned peaches in light syrup. Drain and pour over the butter. The cheese over top and bake.