Thinkin' 'Bout 'Burgers.

So I was thinking about burgers.

Burgers are delicious. One time when I was in Hamburg, I got confused because everywhere I looked there were signs like “Hamburger bank” and “Hamburger school” and I kept getting confused because it’s totally the name of a town and the name of a food. There’s no real point to that story except to play the Eurotrash card. I went to Europe once! Anyway, I may have kind of sort of been offered a job at an upscale burger joint attached to a steakhouse. And I’ve been thinking about burgers. There was a great entry on Not Always Right about how crazy people over burgers. There are over 6.8 million results for “The Best Hamburger” if you bother to google it, and all the related wikipedia articles are … well, exhaustive to say the least. When people think of American Cuisine people think “Hamburger.” blah blah blah blah blah. People eat a lot of them. I think that’s my point. One particular variant is the Patty Melt. I made one the other day. It seemed to go over well.

So anyway, since I might get a job practically flipping burgers, I might as well post the recipe I came up with.

Ingredients:
2 Slices Whole Grain Bread
2 TBSP Butter, Melted
2 TSP Yellow Mustard
2 TSP Ketchup
1 TBSP Diced Onion
0.5 OZ. Sliced Cheddar Cheese
2 Strips Bacon, Cooked.
4 Oz. Hamburger
Salt & Pepper - To Taste.

The Process:
Cook the Bacon in a Skillet.
Remove the Bacon from the Skillet, Set Aside.
Cook the Hamburger in the rendered Bacon Fat.
Butter the Bread using a pastry brush.
Place the Ketchup, Mustard, Onions, Cheese, Bacon, and Hamburger between the 2 slices of Bread. (Butter side facing out)
Toast until the Cheese melts, and the Sandwich turns Golden Brown
Slice, Serve.