Friday January 17th, 2014

Dinner for 6

Spinach Salad with Blue Cheese
Hamburgers with choice of toppings, grilled peppers, grilled onions, tomatoes, lettuce, pears, mustard, pickles, ketchup, blue cheese, cheddar, havarti, etc.
Bourbon Glazed Peaches with Ice Cream. 

I was feeling like imparting a little summer into this winter. This has been the coldest winter since our return to Canada 4 years ago.  It has been a little hard to take after 6 years of South Australian winters, which we would escape for five weeks each year and return to Canadian summer.  So I was in the mood for a great burger and peaches.  Luckily I froze a baskets of peaches when they were at the peak of their season.

My son's girlfriend does not eat meat so I was working out an alternative burger for her when a friend suggested I pick up a quinoa patty from Paisley Fine Foods.  That is what I decided to do and it got great reviews from my guest.  The rest of us ate beef burgers that I prepared adding egg, garlic power, onion powder, worcestershire, salt and pepper then cooked on my grill pan.  I roasted some whole red peppers in the oven, then placed them in a plastic bag so I could easily peal them.  I grilled the onions in a frying pan and all of the remaining topping were found in the fridge.

The spinach salad was just baby spinach, chopped red onion, crumbled blue cheese and a homemade balsamic vinegrette.

The recipe for the bourbon glaze was found on line here but I didn't have any whole fruit only cut frozen fruit.  My solutuon, make the glaze as directed and add 2 cups of chopped frozen peaches.  Cook until warmed through.  Top over icecream.

This was tasty and loved by those that ate it, but I would change it in the future if I was using frozen peaches again.  I found it too sweet so I feel a little less sugar but more peaches, maybe 4 cups would be better.  Also I believe it could have used a little more bourbon.  The left overs, it made a lot of glaze, were used on waffles the next day. Of course I will also try grilling the peaches when summer finally rolls around again.