{"id":482,"date":"2016-01-04T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2016-01-04T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T11:48:29","slug":"the-gourmet-muscle-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/the-gourmet-muscle-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gourmet Muscle Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all had a fun packed festive period&#8230;I know i did. There&#8217;s something about just indulging and enjoying yourself in the final weeks of December, I believe it actually is necessary for you to get the best start possible in January because you grow increasingly unsettled at sitting in a food coma day in day out!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s been 4 days since we hit 2016 and I wanted to give you a few reasons I believe people struggle to stay on track with their New Years resolutions after the first 2-3 weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They Go it Alone<\/li>\n<li>Unrealistic Expectations<\/li>\n<li>No Plan<\/li>\n<li>No Mentor<\/li>\n<li>Lack of Honesty<\/li>\n<li>Lack of Commitment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You see,\u00a0building muscle and dropping bodyfat is HARD!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way to avoid hard work and when it comes to the early morning workouts, the workouts after a day at your job, juggling your kids to fit your meals in&#8230;it is so easy to give in to temptation and become lazy.<\/p>\n<p>This is where I want you to give yourself a shake and remember WHY you want what you want.<\/p>\n<p>One other reason I believe people find it tough to eat for purpose is LACK OF VARIETY.<\/p>\n<p>ENTER &#8211; THE GOURMET MUSCLE BURGER<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_K-3pfVoxJg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I developed this recipe to satisfy those tastebuds and also the textures that come along with enjoying one of our nations go-to cheat meals.<\/p>\n<p>Give this a try and you won&#8217;t be disappointed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recipe:<\/p>\n<p>Serves 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300g lean ground beef<\/li>\n<li>1 clove of minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>2 spring onions, chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 a red onion chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp Paprika<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Sea Salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Black Pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Worcester Sauce<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp Rosemary, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>100g Greek Yogurt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Mustard<\/li>\n<li>2 Sandwich thin buns<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 a tomato<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 a lemon, juiced<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tbsp olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 handfuls of Rocket<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a bowl add your powders, meat, egg and worcester sauce then mix throughly with your hands.<\/li>\n<li>Mould into two patties then place onto a non stick griddle pan with some pam spray for 4 minutes on each side.<\/li>\n<li>Place into an oven at 210c or 410f for 4-5 minutes or until cooked to your liking.<\/li>\n<li>In a small bowl, add your yogurt, mustard and paprika then mix.<\/li>\n<li>Toast your sandwich thins, place your rocket on (mixed with some lemon juice and a little olive oil), place a meat patty on, your tomato and then finish with your yogurt dressing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Enjoy :)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fun packed festive period&#8230;I know i did. There&#8217;s something about just indulging and enjoying yourself in the final weeks of December, I believe it actually is necessary for you to get the best start possible in January because you grow increasingly unsettled at sitting in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\" [&hellip;]\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/the-gourmet-muscle-burger\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,45,48,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusclecook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}