I Need To Stop Watching Man v. Food

Seriously, Adam Richman and his show are going to turn me into a fat ass without even trying! I was flipping channel the other day and realized when I stopped at Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, it was a new episode and he was in Hawaii in a restaurant called the Loco Moco.

The restaurant's owner is a family member, a grandson, I believe, of the woman that opened the restaurant originally. Their signature dish, that Adam was getting ready to try, was called the Loco Moco, just like the restaurant's name.

The story behind the dish is pretty much the same no matter where you look it up online, but here's Wikipedia's version (so take it for what it's worth): "James Kelly, a University of Hawaii-Hilo professor, wrote that the dish was created in 1949 by the Inouye family, who owned the Lincoln Grill in Hilo, Hawaii. A group of boys from the Lincoln Wreckers sports club contributed to the creation of the name 'loco moco'. The actual dish had likely been served in various forms in many restaurants, but the name loco moco was created at the Lincoln Grill. The boys did not have a lot of spending money, so they asked Nancy Inouye to put some rice in a saimin bowl, a hamburger patty atop the rice and brown gravy over both. She charged twenty-five cents for this, much less than a hamburger steak entree. The egg was added later. One of the boys, George Okimoto, was nicknamed "Crazy" because of the wild way he played football. Several of the Wreckers were enrolled in a Spanish class at the local high school and knew that "crazy" in Spanish language is loco, so the boys named the dish loco moco. Moco had no special meaning except it rhymed with loco. In fact, moco in Spanish means mucus, or more commonly, "snot", which may actually have been a reference to the fried egg, when served "runny". It is possible that the boys intended to call the dish "crazy snot"."

So Adam is helping the chef make this monstrosity up to try.

My God, it sounded wonderful! I knew I just had to try it for supper one night. And my husband, being my willing culinary guinea pig as he always is, was up for it.

• 16 ounces ground beef and 2 eggs, turned into 4-5 hamburger patties (I can't form decent patties without the egg added in)
• Minced onion
• Garlic powder
• Black pepper
• Soy sauce
• 1 cup cooked rice (Don't do Minute rice here. Go get a bag of good white rice from the international food aisle at your local grocery store.)
• 4-5 eggs, cooked, fried (keep them slightly runny)
• Brown beef gravy

Season the patties with the minced onion, garlic powder, pepper, and some soy sauce. (Shane asked me to season two of the patties with taco seasoning instead, so to those I didn't add the soy sauce.) Grill or broil patties to desired doneness, about 5 minutes on each side. Divide rice between 4 plates and top each with a patty, gravy, 1 or 2 eggs, and more gravy.

Oh Lord, it was sooooooooooo good! It sounds like an odd combination of stuff but it was GOOD! The gravy and the runny egg yolk mix together really tastily (is that even a word?), and brown gravy on white rice is also really good (which is something I hadn't tried before). I made a large batch of this so we had it for supper the next night as well.