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TimesLIVE
7 days ago
- Business
- TimesLIVE
Chicken or beef: tasty recipes to try for International Burger Day
The history of the first burger has always been shrouded in mystery. Whether you sink your teeth into an offering from a favoured franchise or lie awake some nights pondering the ingredients of Sponge Bob's Krabby Patty, the love for meat on a bun is appreciated the world over. Coinciding with burger month in the US, International Burger Day is set aside to celebrate every bite. Taking part this year is Sibiya Casino, with its specials for some of SA's most beloved hot spots for a good burger: Beira Alta Restaurant - A Portuguese burger with a house-made beef patty topped with chouriço slices for R155. Nando's - A tender chicken burger prepared with Nando's' unique peri-peri recipe served with a single side of your choice for R92. Steers - Big Bacon King Steer Burger with chips for R129.90. Spur - From Sibaya Spur, the original Spur burger – your choice of beef, soya or chicken - served with a side of your choice (single 160g) for R114.90. The burger combo is your choice of a beef, soya or chicken patty topped with cheese, and a 350ml Coke, for R164.90. The Rib burger – succulent pork rib patties grilled with Spur Basting topped with cheese served with a side of your choice – for R 129.80. The famous Cheddamelt burger - your choice of a beef, soya or chicken patty topped with melted cheese and creamy mushroom or pepper sauce, with a side of your choice - for R142.90. Don't have a chance to catch the special this week? Here's a recipe from Sibaya Casino's Salon Privé chef Prudence Ntombela that's sure to bust the cravings. Cajun chicken burger Ingredients: 1 burger bun 20g soft butter 30g oil, plus extra for frying 250g chicken breast 25g Cajun spice 40g mayonnaise 2g paprika 30g fresh tomato 15g red onion 30g fresh lettuce 200g potatoes Seasoning Method: Cut the chicken breast horizontally to open into a butterfly. Add Cajun spice, oil and seasoning and set aside for 10 minutes in the fridge. Cut the burger bun and butter on both sides. Place on a pan until golden brown. Set aside. Grill the chicken breast over a medium-high heat for 4 minutes on each side until fully cooked through. Slice the onion and tomato into rings and set aside. Mix the mayonnaise and paprika together, then spread the mixture on both sides of the bun. To assemble the burger, layer the lettuce, tomato and red onion on the bottom half of the bun. Place the chicken on top, drizzle with additional paprika mayo and finish with the top half of the bun. In a medium-sized pot, heat the oil and fry the potatoes in your preferred cut for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Season with salt, pepper and Cajun spice, then serve on a plate alongside the burger. BBQ lamb burger Ingredients: 150g lamb mince 30g oil 1 burger bun 20g soft butter 40g mayonnaise 2g paprika 30g fresh tomato 15g red onion 30g fresh lettuce 200g potatoes 40g BBQ sauce Seasoning Method: Roll the mince into a ball and flatten. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Cook patties on each side for 4 minutes. Set aside. Cut the burger bun and butter on both sides and toast in the pan. Slice the onion and tomato into rings and set aside. Mix the mayonnaise and paprika together, then spread the mixture on both sides of the bun. To assemble the burger, layer the lettuce, tomato and red onion on the bottom half of the bun. Place the lamb patty on top, drizzle with BBQ sauce, and finish with the top half of the bun. In a medium-sized pot, heat the oil and fry the potatoes in your preferred cut for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Season with salt, pepper and Cajun spice, then serve on a plate alongside the burger.
NDTV
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
"He Lowkey Cooked": Internet Is In Awe Of Functional Grill Inside Sneakers For On-The-Go Burgers
There's no direct connection between sneakers and cooking, isn't it? But recently, Russian designer Alexander Osipov, who goes by the pseudonym Canyaon, made an unexpected collaboration with the popular American restaurant brand Frank by Basta. It features a pair of sneakers that can be used to grill meat. No, we are not kidding. In a video shared on Instagram, Canyaon presented viewers with this unbelievable feat: preparing a burger on the sneakers. The shoes, equipped with a built-in mini-grill platform, allow customers to cook food on the go. The clip shows a person switching on the built-in stove, positioned on the sneaker's toe cap. Once the gas is lit, he places a mini pan on top. A sufficient quantity of oil is poured into it. Next, on a small wooden chopping board, the man slices tomatoes, pickles and cabbage. He slathers a fresh bun into the oil-laden pan and sautes onions in the cookware. In the final step, the man garnishes the onions with a pinch of salt. And voila! A tasty burger is ready to be savoured. The side note read, 'cooking sneakers'. How cool is that? Watch the full video below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by саня каньон (@canyaon) The internet was quick to react to the post. 'Did your toes feel toasty?' wondered a user jokingly. 'This is the most unnecessary gig I have ever seen on this app lmaoooo,' confessed another. 'He lowkey cooked,' noted one person. An individual wanted to know whether 'the board and knife come with' the pair of sneakers. A flabbergasted remark read, 'Did I just watch this dude cooking a Krabby Patty with his sneakers?' Here's what this user had to say: 'Wow, I need to up my sneaker game.' So far, the video has garnered more than 7.8 million views.
Axios
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
I tried PopUp Bagels in Boston so you don't have to
PopUp Bagels, the chain that wants you to rip apart pieces of your bagel like a caveman and dump it into a vat of cream cheese, is taking on the Boston breakfast scene. Against my better judgment, I tried it. The intrigue: What began as a pandemic experiment in a man's Westport, Connecticut, home has expanded across that state, New York and now Boston. PopUp appeared in Wellesley and the Seaport and recently secured a lease to set up shop in Harvard Square. Catch up quick: The concept of ripping a bagel chunk and dipping it into a cream cheese container feels wrong. But I volunteered as tribute. Actually, my editors asked me to go. Maybe they were entertained by the shudder I let out when the topic came up. Who am I to deprive them and the readers of some fun at my expense? Anyway, that's what I told myself as I pulled apart a chunk of everything bagel and dunked it into a container of Parmesan-garlic cream cheese. (Yes, I spilled seeds and spices all over my table.) My seven-word review: I wanted to hate it. I couldn't. Zoom in: The bagel was almost as chewy as a New York bagel, with a crispy crunch around the edges. The Parmesan and garlic were tasty, but not overpowering. Between the lines: If you or your kids ever watched SpongeBob SquarePants, you might remember that Squidward, the grumpy squid Krabby Patty employee, insisted he hated the burgers. Then he bit into a morsel of a patty, and — to his dismay — it changed his tastebuds forever. I'm not saying this is Krabby Patty good. It's just better than I'd like to admit.
The Guardian
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Plankton: The Movie review – Netflix's Spongebob spin-off movie is for fans only
Honestly, a title like Plankton: The Movie is about as difficult to evaluate as any movie that comes down the Hollywood pike or, in this case, washes up on its shores. Not because it's a spin-off of SpongeBob Squarepants – or at least, not because there is anything inherently wrong with a spin-off movie of such a durably silly and enjoyable kids' franchise – but because it often feels somewhere to the side of genuine feature-film status. In executive terms, it is more like content. Lengthwise, Plankton does qualify as a feature, though its official runtime of nearly 90 minutes doesn't really do justice to the fact that it runs closer to 75 when you take out the extensive end credits. Anyway, that's not a problem; there's a rich tradition of animated movies aimed at kids not overstaying their welcome, and Plankton himself is such a little guy. For a tiny, amorphous blob, he's quite accomplished, having parlayed a bit role on the long-running Nickelodeon series to a fixture as the self-appointed nemesis of SpongeBob and his beloved employer, the Krusty Krab. Like Pinky and the Brain before him, Plankton (voiced by an animator and voice actor known as Mr Lawrence) has attempted to overcome his diminutive status with somewhat obtuse world-conquering schemes, which he's convinced can and should begin with stealing the recipe for the Krusty Krab's Krabby Patty. One of the best jokes of Plankton's spin-off movie (presumably long-awaited by, at very least, Plankton himself) is that his longtime spouse Karen (Jill Talley), a sentient computer, is far better-suited to carrying out cartoonish evil plans than he is. Weary of his lack of gratitude and generally boorish manner, Karen takes matters into her own hands, becomes a multi-screened supercomputer and sets about actually dominating the world Plankton has long yearned to subjugate. This leaves Plankton, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny), and a group of gal pals led by the underwater-dwelling squirrel Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence) to stop her – which makes Plankton: The Movie the rare children's film to focus on the reconciliation of a childless marriage. The loopiness of this premise is charming. Its suitability to fill out a feature film, less so. (It was originally conceived as a special before it was developed into the second tier of SpongeBob movies; the main line generally gets theatrical releases, while these spin-offs focused on the supporting cast are licensed to Netflix.) To distinguish the movies from the long-running cartoon series, the characters are rendered in choppy modern computer animation, which is to say these days, the SpongeBob movies generally look worse than the show. (That's one way to tell them apart, I guess!) Plankton is most enjoyable when it toys with other art styles, like a 2D psychedelic sequence after Karen's discarded love chip is shoved into her husband's brain, or a black-and-white musical flashback drawn in the style of 1930s shorts. All of this potentially extraneous stuff – extensive flashbacks, musical numbers, animated experiments – are what make Plankton fun while simultaneously creating the impression that the story at hand is on the static side. Much of it consists of Plankton talking to his frenemies about his marriage. As such, it often feels more like a three-episodes-and-change filibuster than a real movie. On one hand, this is a Netflix movie, so it's not as if families are having $100 in ticket sales pried away from them; on the other, a streaming release makes it even more difficult to discern from TV, despite the shinier/crappier animation style. None of this can or should concern the kid audience that's barely old enough to tell the difference anyway. But it's hard not to wonder if sorta-movies like Plankton are training that younger audience to start thinking in terms of content, early and often. Plankton: The Movie is available now on Netflix
