Friday Night Hamburgers at Nanny's



Sometimes the best substitute for a food comes in a slightly unlikely form. The above soy porkchop sandwich on flatbread tasted EXACTLY the way that fried hamburgers at my (and Meg's) grandparents house always did. I don't mean it "kind of tasted like it". It was an exact replica. Adding to the flavor, my brother left one of our house-brand-natural-colas in my fridge last week, and I drank it. They smell just like pepsi, but taste more like RC. Friday night hamburgers are one of my favorite memories from childhood. I love that my grandmother always lays out the full trays of toppings for you to choose yourself. I really wish we'd had some cheap hamburger dill slices with this. Not to put on the sandwich, but just to eat along with it, because I always did that as a kid.



The protein (pictured above) comes via the huge freezer full of fake meat we bought at the asian market a while back. They're Black Pepper Pork Chops, and they were delicious. I tossed them in the skillet, browned them up and served them on gyros bread (with different seasonings and soy yogurt sauce, they could easily pass for gyros) with miso mayo, sweet onion and ripe tomato from Cox Farms Market in Duncanville. My friend John at work told me about and I've been meaning to go down there for weeks. While on the south side of the metro today after dropping Cody off in Arlington, we finally made it. It's a very nice, clean, small natural foods store. The prices were reasonable and the produce was beautiful. If you're in the south metro, and you need some bulk nuts, I suggest you give them a try.


- posted by Mason @ 9:04 AM