Hawaiian Loco Moco

 I hadn't heard of Hawaiian Loco Moco until recently. I'm not sure why that is and I'm not sure why I waited over 50 years to taste it, but this recipe will be going into our regular rotation. There are 4 components: the base of steamed rice, the burger patty, the gravy and the sunny side egg that goes on the top. It's delicious! It's economical. It's very filling and, the best part is that you only need 1/2 pound of ground beef for 2 servings.

I did serve this with Hawaiian Mac Salad.

 Very quickly, the the ingredients for this salad are:
Salad macaroni
Grated carrot
Minced onion
Finely diced red bell pepper
Cubed cheddar cheese

The dressing is:
Mayonnaise
Milk
Apple Cider Vinegar
Sugar
Salt & pepper, to taste

It's very simple. I can't give you measurements because I don't measure.

Now, back to the scheduled program of Loco Moco.

This is absolutely delicious! You have to put a crispy edged sunny side up egg on the top. The yolk mixes with the gravy on the ground beef patty and makes this delectable, silky sauce.

Hawaiian Loco Moco
2 servings

Prepare 1 cup of rice. You can use jasmine, basmati or just regular white rice. It's up to you. Rice is cooked using a 2:1 ratio. That means for every 1 cup of rice, use 2 cups of water. You don't even need a measuring cup. You can use whatever vessel you have on hand. Just use 2 water to every 1 rice. Rice cooks, covered for 20 minutes.

1/2 pound 93% lean ground beef
2 or 3 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder


Mix together in a bowl and form into 2 patties. Cook in a heavy bottomed skillet (we used cast iron) until desired internal temperature is reached. I prefer my burgers to have no pink. Remove from the skillet, tent with foil to keep warm, and set aside.
In the meantime, make the gravy.

For the gravy:

1 tablespoon butter
1/2 medium onion, diced
1-2 mushrooms, sliced (I diced mine as my husband has difficulties eating some food unless it's finely diced)
3/4 cup beef broth
2 teaspoons shoyu soy sauce (use regular if you don't have shoyu, it's perfectly fine)
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ketchup
2-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with a bit of water to make a slurry

Cook the onions and mushrooms, in the butter,  in the same skillet that you cooked the burgers in, making sure to scrape up the browned bits off the bottom of the pan. Once everything is cooked down, about 5 minutes or so over medium heat, add the rest of the ingredients except the cornstarch. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, simmer 3-5 minutes. Add the cornstarch slurry, bring back to a boil, whisking continually, until thickened. Remove from heat, cover and let set for a few minutes while you make 2 sunny side up eggs.

You will also want to slice up a green onion to use as garnish.

On a plate, add a mound of steamed rice, top with a burger patty, top that with gravy, top all with a sunny side up egg and garnish with green onions.

Enjoy!

Is Walmart Being Shady With Their Customers?

 I wanted to get a small Walmart order since Bob said he was low on milk. I'm not a milk drinker, so he has to tell me when it's time to buy some. I figured I would take advantage of their lower prices and get a bunch of yogurts as we've been eating those at night to appease our cravings for something sweet. Walmart also tends to offer the lowest cost eggs in town, so I added a dozen to the cart.
I set pickup for the next morning and went off to bed.
I got a text from them the next morning stating that one of the things that I ordered was not in stock and did I want a substitution for it? I didn't, so I clicked that option and sent it back to them. We headed over that way to pick up our order.

This is what I looked at when I ordered eggs.

I went with the $2.28 dozen, of course.

Where I take issue is when the clerk put our groceries into the car, she informed us that the eggs were not available. I took note that she did not say in stock. I asked her, specifically, if I went into the store, would I be able to buy them. She said yes. She then went on with some weird explanation that the cheaper eggs were in a styrofoam container and styrofoam wouldn't scan into their system with grocery pickup. That's odd to me because all 3 of those options are in styrofoam. So, going off of what that clerk told me, none of these options would be available to me for grocery pickup even though they specifically state that they are.
The other odd thing is that I've purchased these exact eggs in the past with absolutely zero issues as evident with what I circled in orange. 

So, going through all the options, Walmart has these that, according to the clerk, will scan in their system.

I don't know about you all, but I'm not going to be forced into either #1: having to trek through Walmart in order to get a dozen eggs at a reasonable price or #2: have to purchase an option at double or more the cost.
This is a deal breaker for me with Walmart. I will be buying eggs at a bit of a higher cost from another store from here on out.
I realize that it's a small amount of money, but if you multiply that by every single other person that is getting this exact same song and dance, it adds up to a lot of money.
In my opinion, it's a scam.
I left feedback for them and I don't know what will come of that, but don't state that something is available for pickup on your website and then tell customers that it's actually not available unless you're willing to wade through their very crowded store. I'm not into it.