Teaching kids to eat well is a tricky business, especially {ahem}
if you don’t eat that great yourself. So imagine my joy the other day
when my son looked up from a homemade burger, wiped some tomato juice
off his little chin and said: “Mom? The burgers you make are the best
in the world.”
Readers, my little mommy heart sang with joy. I
felt like ringing Jamie Oliver up and saying: “You see? You SEE? I am
not ALL BAD!” But I restrained myself, because I understand the wildly
famous deserve their privacy and because he must be tired, what with
having a new 3-week-old son. But mostly because I don’t have his number
and he’s never heard of me.
Top 10 burger recipes
So in celebration of my small step
on the road to building sons with healthy eating habits, today we bring
you a whole host of delicious, healthy homemade burger recipes. From lamb to lentils, chicken to chickpeas, beef to, er, more beef… we’ve got your patty passions covered.
On the other hand, I don’t know a family that would survive without the 80/20 rule. Recently, my boys and I reviewed the slightly dodgy but incredibly delicious Saul’s burger in Wynberg, which we have pronounced our favourite non-homemade burger.
But we need your recommendations too. Do you have a fabulous homemade burger recipe? Send
it to us, with a pic! And we also want your favourite eat-out burgers –
from gourmet to comforting – from all across the country, so email us the details or search for your favourite burger joint on Food24 and review away.
So
go on, send and recommend! A Food24 apron (worth over R150) will be
winging its way to both the best recipe and best restaurant burger
review.
Speaking of Jamie Oliver, have you seen his TED talk? Or read this spiffy interview in The Guardian? Do.