Search I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die from this surprise Now that I've gotten accustomed to the fact that I can actually make food (wow!) I've become slightly less obsessed with photographing it and posting it online all the time.  But this past weekend extended to Monday because of a national holiday (respect for the elderly day) and to celebrate the long weekend, I decided to try to make a "fancy" meal... hanbagu.  Oh yes, so fancy, I know.  But since my meals are usually "throw vegetables, meat, sauce, and seasoning together into a pan and eat it over some starch" I thought making proper yoshoku on a plate would be nice, or something.  At any rate, I thought it looked nice!  I made hamburger patties out of ground beef (for some reason, the only ground beef S could find across three grocery stores was ground beef combined with pork, but we couldn't taste the pork, so it worked out fine) mixed with granulated garlic and pepper, then fried mixed vegetables in the pan with the hamburger drippings so that they were deliciously fatty.  We also made "demiglace sauce" of a variety that comes in a can in Japan (partner to the generic "white cream sauce" which also comes in similar packaging... I still haven't tried it, but I have a can sitting around, so we'll see...!) to put over the hamburgers, and voila, hanbagu! It was actually fairly tasty, so perhaps next time there's