Happy Birthday Burger Wisconsin
20 years of serving the best burgers!

We are celebrating our 20th birthday with a competition and prizes for you our valued customers.

Our first store opened in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down, and we in NZ got a 3rd TV channel.

We have loved serving the best gourmet burgers to you ever since, and look forward to another 20 years.

Last month we introduced some new menu items, Steak burgers, Onion rings & Desserts, have you tried them yet?

Tell us what you think by clicking the 'Contact us' button below, we would love your feedback and ideas on how to improve.

All stores are now in full competition mode, come down and enter our Birthday Competition and be in to win a 'Build Your Own' Holiday, iPods, beautiful cookbooks from our 'live life' cook Adie, and weekly draws for free burgers.

The 'Build Your own' holiday is unique. The winner will receive a $5,000 Flight Centre voucher to holiday with as they wish.

If you wish to go by train to Queenstown, business class flights to Italy, or a family cruise to Samoa you choose. Just like building your own burger with us - you choose how you like it.

See you in your local store soon, you can't win if you're not in!

Kind regards
The team at Burger Wisconsin

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Adie has just published her first cookbook, "Black Dog Cottage Cookbook".

A sun kissed Greek Island, an old wooden bach on the East coast of New Zealand's North Island and a vibrant family kitchen are the inspirations behind The Black Dog Cottage Cook Book. Adie gives us uncomplicated food, with a real edge - stylish yet very straightforward - Asian and Mediterranean-inspired recipes, designed to be easily prepared, served without ceremony and to be eaten with joy and good company.

The Black Dog Cottage Cook Book will provide inspiration to anyone who seeks simple, fresh, tasty home-cooked food. The book is a celebration of family, food, holidays and the iconic Kiwi bach.

The book is at all good bookstores or order from Adie direct, she will personally inscribe your copy. Email her at adie@adiemcclelland.co.nz

In our Birthday Competition we have 24 books by Adie to be won. You can't win if you're not in.

Sauces, Dressings, Vinaigrettes, Salsa

Sauces, Dressings, Vinaigrettes, Salsa's are all wonderful additions to enhance the flavour of our food. It is said that all sauces & dressings come from the five 'mother sauces' developed by the French chefs, Antonin Carême & Auguste Escoffier.

The original 'mother sauces' are;

• Béchamel - White sauce made by stirring milk into a butter & flour roux. We would use this for a cheesy sauce for a lasagne.
• Espagnole - Brown sauce made by meat stock, herbs, mirepoix, thickened with a brown roux. We would use this sauce for a gravy with the weekend roast.
• Veloute - Light sauce made from light meat stock and roux. A light velvety sauce used on seafood or chicken.
• Mayonnaise & Hollandaise - emulsion sauces made using egg yolk to bind together oil & lemon juice or vinegar. We know mayo from our burgers and hollandaise from eggs benedict.
• Vinaigrette - The simplest oil & vinegar (usually 3 parts oil to1 part vinegar) with salt & pepper. There are many variations on this theme by adding garlic, mustard, spices, shallots. This is the typical salad dressing used on a summer salad.

Sauces, Dressings, Vinaigrettes, Salsa's are the finishing touches that can liven up any meal, and essential to good cooking.

It is for this reason that I always have one or two pottles of different accompaniments in my fridge at the same time, not to mention a jar of aioli, which I am never without.

Here are a few of my favourite dressings to liven up any meal.

At Burger Wisconsin we make a number of our sauces and dressings fresh in store, to in-house recipes, using garden fresh vegetables and herbs, to give that extra taste.

Other sauces are made especially for us, to our own recipes, by specialist suppliers.

In fact one of our sauces has proven to be so popular at Burger Wisconsin that it is now made and sold throughout New Zealand.

Rocket Fuel sauce was first made in 1993 , and was served in a Burger Wisconsin burger, called the 'Rocket Burger'. Customers loved its spicy sweet taste, which combined well with the beef burger patty to give a taste sensation. Rocket fuel had a much better flavour than standard barbecue sauce.

"Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting."
Geoffrey Chaucer - English author & poet

"In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist."
Fernand Point - French Chef