Mattazuma's Revenge

My Hamburguesa con Chorizo

So, I was on the Twitter last month and I saw the following message pop up:

 

Hmm... chorizo in a hamburger, I've gotta try that! Well, today was that day, and here are a few pictures from a successful meal.

I first cooked up some chorizo, I really like Paulina's chorizo but as long as its Mexican chorizo, it should be ok.

 

Let it drain & cool down & then mix it up with the ground beef.  I also coated the patty with ancho chili powder & some salt.

 

I threw them on the grill and them served them up on buns with guacamole, tomato, jalapenos and some chipotle salsa.  Yeah, I used yellow cheddar instead of a Mexican cheese because that's all I had :)

 

Here's a close-up:

  

The burger came out great.  It had multiple layers of spice between the chorizo, the ancho powder and the jalapenos and the guacamole was an excellent counterpoint.  The potato salad is a very good Bobby Flay recipe off the Food Network site.

Some More Amazon Praise

Had an interesting Amazon experience this week I wanted to share.  I have Amazon Prime, which is an awesome service that gives you (and 4 friends) free 2 day shipping^* for everything Amazon sells.  Worth every penny of the $75 a year it costs.

I am also using Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program to buy some grocery items.  It gives you a 15% additional discount and automatically ships more to you on a schedule of your choosing.  I.e. Resend every month, every 2 months, etc.

So I saw the shipping notice on Tuesday that they had shipped my reorder, but they used regular shipping instead of the 2 day.  For a couple boxes of cereal it didn't really matter when it was going to show up, but I shot Amazon an e-mail asking why they didn't use the free 2 day shipping.

I got an e-mail the next morning stating they had made a mistake and they gave me a $3.99 promo code to use on a future order.  $3.99 is the cost to upgrade an Amazon Prime shipment to next day delivery.

Here's the kicker, even with the regular 'slow' shipping, the box showed up on Wednesday.

* The 2 day shipping is normally UPS ground.  I think it's called 'premium ground' on the shipping labels. It always arrives within 2 days, with around 30% of the packages arriving the next day.