One of the things that most people don’t know about Jay is that he loves to cook and create his own dinners. His best creation to date is “Jay-gers,” which are awesomely delicious stuffed hamburgers. He also makes superb chicken-dish creations too if you prefer chicken to beef. Last night, Jay made his newest burger creation for me and Clif, which he dubbed the “Anti-Edward.” It has something to do with the crazy amount of garlic that the burger involves, I guess.
Anyway, after the Jay-ger, this is the second best burger Jay makes. I figured I’d document the cooking process from start to finish. There’s a very big reason I rarely ever eat dessert and it has nothing to do with diet purposes. It has everything to do with reasons like I ate two of the Anti-Edward last night and was too full to eat anything else. I wish we had a big enough place for Jay to cook for everyone reading this right now (that’s right! All 6 of you 
lol). So here’s in layman’s terms the basic way to make the Anti-Edward:
Shape the ground beef into patties (duh). Note the Lysol wipes in the background indicating that you should start on a clean surface.
Olive oil.
Add garlic salt. Lots of garlic salt.
Flip!
Jay really likes using olive oil…
Great Value Texas Toast. Trust me, it may be from Wal-Mart the best brand.
Add cheese. This is cheddar but I tend to prefer American or Monterey (or Pepper) Jack.
Put ‘em together and whadda ya get?
The Anti-Edward.
Add some of the necessary dinner accessories.
And finally, an evening with Chef Jay is never complete until he makes you play a board game. My favorite is Blokus or Sorry! but last night’s choice was Jumanji.
He cooks for you and then plays board games? You are one lucky girl!
man, that looks yummy!
I never thought of using olive oil and texas toast, yummy. Beats the boring turkey burger I had for lunch. Why is the burger called anti-edward?
Colleen- my daughter around your age just got engaged. Any tips for me on how to be involved without interfering. I want to help but I don’t want to take over (like my mom did with my wedding) I think the wedding will be in a couple of years. You remind me a lot of her. (except she isnt’ a Lost fan, gasp!) I am much to young to have a daughter getting married, lol but I’ll deal with it. Unlike Jack, I don’t think I am close to death yet, lol.
Carol – Congratulations!! I’d say set the rules for the guest list first. After all of the family were taken care of and it was Jay & my’s turn for our list, we unfortunately only have “room” for a very small number of friends. This is a great source of distress for me, as we have a lot of friends who we would want to be there and unless we win the lottery or have some unlikely big financial break in the next few months, there will be some very, very difficult and heartbreaking choices to make. That’s really the only thing that I wish were different. Another thing to be aware of is that your help is valuable and appreciated but when it comes to having a vision, it has to be hers first. So I’d say just really watch out for what she has in mind – ask her, “What do you think about doing this?” or “How do you want this done?” instead of “So I was thinking about how we have to get this done & did some research and we can do it like this.” You’re the one who’s done it before so you’re the one she’ll look to the most for advice…
Thanks for the great advice. I appreciate it. Great idea about wording everything.Already have our first snag. She is Catholic, he isn’t. I understand if she can’t get married in a Catholic church but her grandparents and relatives are not going to be very understanding about it. Her grandparents won’t belive it is a real marriage if it isn’t in a church. Ugh, no idea of how to handle this one. He really isn’t any religion, and don’t want to force one upon him. Oh well, the relatives will have to get over themselves.
My friend wasn’t Catholic when she got married & they did some extra marriage prep (Pre-Cana), spoke with a priest and they were allowed to be married in the Church. I think things are very different now.
Those burgers look great! I’ve never thought about using Texas Toast…and I’m in Texas!! I’ll have to try that sometime!
Carol: you can totally get married in a Catholic church even if your spouse isn’t Catholic. Have them speak to the priest. One of them will probably need to be registered in the parish.