Real Food Friday

   So I had this post all ready to go and be posted Friday and then I forgot, oopss! So here is Real Food Friday on Saturday. I will do my best to get one of these up every Friday. I love seeing what other people make to eat, their favorite recipes and new foods to try so hopefully this will inspire you to fix these at your home. All of the recipes I will post will be 100% unprocessed food, all fruits and veggies I use are organic and as local as possible.

   Today's Real Food is a Banh Mi Burger

   This was an adaption of a Pinterest find, it was so tasty and easy to make. I buy my meat from a farmer in Tennessee and they make the best sausage. We aren't huge breakfast people, if we do eat a true pancakes, sausage and eggs breakfast its usually breakfast for dinner, so this was a great way to put some of that delicious sausage to use. For those of you that have never had a Banh Mi sandwich it is a Vietnamese sandwich that can be filled with pork belly, sausage or grilled pork and then topped with pickled carrots and diakon, cucumbers, cilantro, sliced chilies and a spicy sauce. We have an excellent food truck here that serves them for lunch. When I made this burger I served it with hummus and black bean and red quinoa chips and they were the perfect pair.

Ingredients:
1/2 lb of sausage
whole wheat hamburger buns
sliced cucumbers
chopped cilantro
chopped mint
sliced matchstick carrots
jalapenos (opitional)
rice wine vinegar
mayonnaise
fish sauce
lime juice
Sriracha
powdered garlic
toasted sesame oil  

• first pickle your carrots, cucumbers and jalapenos if you are using them. Place them in a dish and cover with rice wine vinegar and let sit. Easy as that!
• now make your sauce, mix mayo, fish sauce, lime juice, garlic and Sriracha together, I didn't give specific amounts because it is really to taste. As a guideline, go lighter on the fish sauce and Sriracha then the other ingredients. I mixed, tasted, added more, mix, tasted and so on until I liked what I had. Don't be scared of the Sriracha, I have a fairly low spicy threshold and was able to eat this no problem, it really mixes well with the other flavors and what you get is more flavor then heat.
  
  
  
• let's cook some burgers! make sausage into patties and either grill or cook in a pan until cooked through all the way.
  
  
  
• mix chopped cilantro and mint
• lightly brush inside of buns with toasted sesame oil and toast
• assemble: bottom bun, sauce, patty, herbs, pickled veggies and top bun.

I also want to leave you with a sneak peak of our latest house project.....

 I cant wait to reveal the final project this week!

xoxo
Ashlea