Adobo Burgers

This last weekend was pretty brutal, Friday night Lisa, Seth, DJ Paul Ortiz and myself went and saw the awesome Austin metal band The Sword at the Launchpad and drank a little. Then Saturday the male Orphic employees went to Santa Fe early in the morning and installed a new network for YSFS all day long, and then Sunday along with the stupid daylight savings change I braved Costco and REI and finished up a site design. But I digress...

So sometime last week I found a Rachel Ray recipe for Adobo Burgers somewhere in the series of tubes that are the internet. Now Rachel Ray knows spicy food about as well as any midwesterner can and this recipe sounded interesting, so Sunday night I made the single handed command decision that I'd make those for dinner. First issue was that the recipe called for Adobo sauce which despite our fairly close proximity to Old Mexico was not available at the Smurr's we shop at. So I cheated and bought a can of chipoltes in adobo instead. I just pureed the chipoltes and adobo in my mini Cuis and added that to the patty mixture. Now the recipe calls for 2 1/2 tsp of adobe, I added 4 Tbsp which added a nice heat and flavor. the recipe amount would probably add a minor hint of heat and flavor if anything.

Everything else was fairly de rigeur but the burgers came out really nice. I gas grilled the patties to medium, toasted up the Smiths brand whole wheat rolls and added shredded lettuce and tomato. The avocados at the store were a little hard so we skipped those. The corn in the spread mixture might seem a little odd but it adds a nice crunch and some body to the mayo mixture. Putting the cheese in the mayo mix was a little odd too but not bad. Next time I do these I might put melted cheese on the burger instead and leave it out of the mayo mix. Overall though, not a bad recipe with some tweaking. I manged to forget to take any pictures since I'm new at this. The camera now lives in the kitchen so I'll be forced to remember.