Josie and I watched this one episode of Man vs. Food via Netflix streaming and were bombarded with images of hamburgers that didn't have cheese on them, but cheese in them. We decided that this would be a simple recipe to try and complete. I decided to use my standard hamburger mixture for this little experiment.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- 1 pound grass fed beef
- 1 slice of 4-year old aged cheddar from Seattle
- 1 slick of pepper jack
- A tomato
- Romaine lettuce
- Salt and pepper to taste
Putting It All Together
0. Prepare the hamburger by adding the egg, bread crumbs and mixing it all around until your hands are cold. Add salt and pepper to taste... but don't taste it with your finger. That's e. coli country. Just use your best judgment.
1. Split the pound of beef into four equal sized patties. This makes four quarter pounder patties.
2. Split each quarter pounder in half (making eight 1/8 pounders).
3. Flatten each of these halves into patty shapes. The thinner the better as thick burgers, as we found out, have a hard time cooking all the way through evenly.
4. Break one of the cheese into small pieces so it fits in the center of one of the small 1/8 pound patties.
5. Take another of the 1/8 pound patties and put it on top. It should look like you're hiding a tiny mound of cheese under a hamburger patty.
6. Pinch the sides of this new quarter pounder with cheese ON THE INSIDE.
7. Do the same for the three (3) remaining quarter pounders.
8. Grease up a pan and start frying up the burgers. This should work just as well on a grill.
9. While the burgers are cooking, cut the tomatoes into slices of your liking as well as the romaine lettuce.
10. After the burgers are cooked all the way through (check by cutting closer to the outside so cheese doesn't spill out yet), remove them and place them on a plate.
11. Place vegetables as needed. Add salt and pepper on top of tomatoes for a nice kick in your face.
12. Eat heartily and don't forget to turn off the stove.
Man! Look at that cheese! Using toasted buns is also an option, but we found ourselves completely full without. In hindsight, there's not really too much different between this and a standard cheeseburger... except that the beef juices cook into that delicious cheese and all over your stomach. I mean mouth.
Hmmmm sounds sooo good man I want some Juicy Gooseies right now!
ReplyDeleteYum, you know you can get a burger like that with chili in the middle at Harvey's in the Castro...right? You should go, like now, and then tell me how wonderful it is.
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