Tonight was the night that I finally attempted beef burek, after talking about it for the past week or so. None of the recipes really looked like the thing that I saw on $40 a day that looked so tasty, so I improvised. I fried up a pound of lean hamburger with a diced onion and a little sliced shiitake mushroom (leftover, needed to use them up). I added salt and paprika but it still tasted very flat, so I threw in a splash of marsala and let it cook off. I layered this with phyllo dough, buttering each sheet lightly, and ricotta (dad doesn’t like feta). I baked it at 350 for 30 minutes, until the crust was golden brown. I served it with a little salad and some leftover green beans.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t bad with the beans and salad, as the beans were rather too salty in the first place, but alone it was very blah. We experimented slightly with a horseradish sauce (dad’s idea) and a dilled yogurt sauce (my idea) but neither gave it the ooomph it needed. It wasn’t bad with ranch dressing on it, but everything is better with ranch.<\/p>\n
It served its purpose, I’m not hungry anymore, but that definitely wasn’t a keeper recipe. Next time I’ll just grill out burgers, much tastier.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow night’s dinner will be a tried and true favorite which I can assign dad to cook before I get home – cinci style chili. I’ve got all of the stuff that I like to dress it up with and it’ll be a simple dinner for a couple of nights, since this is looking like it might be another week filled with long days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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