Posts tagged ‘burgers’

I spent the holiday weekend in the Hudson Valley at the home of a friend who recently planted a lush, beautiful kitchen garden. Every time the breeze blew, the scent of cilantro, basil, and dill would waft through the backyard. Though I consider myself content in the big city, I seriously envy the ability to maintain such a kitchen garden. Oh, to step outside my door and pick fresh mint for lemonade!

Given it was the 4th, our group felt it would be un-American to eat anything but grilled burgers, though we also wanted to take advantage of all the fresh herbs. Rather than go potato salad crazy, I decided to put a large mixture of herbs in the burger meat.
>> Read on for the best herb-flecked burger this side of the Mississippi. >>

Over the past ten days, Dan and I put 1500 miles on a hardy little Ford Fusion rental as we toured a bunch of national parks throughout Arizona and Utah. We started in Phoenix and wound our way up the Colorado and Green rivers, through the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley before scaling a few mountains at Canyonlands and Arches.

Though we managed to down a fair amount of local specialties (incredible green and red chile sauce at 15.Quince in Jerome, AZ, Grand Canyon Sunset Amber Ale brewed in Williams, AZ, and way too much Navajo frybread over two nights in Monument Valley), by the time we pulled into Moab, Utah, we were more than a little weary of the typical soup, salad, and faux steakhouse menus encountered along the way.

Thank God for Milt’s Stop and Eat, a few blocks off Moab’s main drag.

>> Read on to hear about what makes this 1954 throwback perennially popular. >>