Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
CAUTION: Your heart may well stop beating halfway through your first burger. We're talkin' bacon grease here.
Serves four, if everyone eats one.
Ingredients:
1 pound hamburger or ground round.
4 high-quality beef franks (around here, that means Vollwerth's)
6-12 strips of bacon
1 packet onion/mushroom soup mix (I use Lipton)
8 slices of pepper-jack cheese
1 can of mushrooms
1/2 onion
1 jalapeno pepper
Tartar sauce
Thousand Island salad dressing
Sandwich-style pickles
Start with the hamburger. Add 1 egg and 1 packet of onion/mushroom soup mix, and diced onion (I use red, about 3 tbsp). Mix well in bowl, and set aside.
Mix tartar sauce and thousand-island dressing in a 50/50 mix, then add one or the other to taste. This is McDonald's "secret" Big Mac sauce. 65/35 to the favor of thousand island seems about right to me.
In a separate pan, saute some mushrooms. Keep them warm, you'll be needing them.
Fire up the skillet and if you have excess like I do, get about 3/4" of bacon grease to temp. If not, fry enough bacon so that you've got at least 1/8" bacon grease in the bottom of the skillet. You're going to need (at least) six slices of bacon anyhow, so get to it. Cut bacon in half across the middle and set bacon aside.
Cut beef franks in half, then split the halves down the middle. Fry those bad boys in the bacon grease, when done set aside.
Form hamburgers into 1/4-pound patties. Drop 'em in the bacon grease at high heat to sear, then flip and sear the other side. Lower heat and cook to desired taste, flipping once more. Apply 1 slice of pepper-jack cheese and 3 half-strips of bacon, then another slice of cheese. Once the cheese begins to melt, add 3 more half-strips of bacon (if you've cooked 12 strips) and quartered hot dogs, three quarters (strips) to each burger. Leave in pan until cheese is melted.
Remove burgers, serve on good buns (not the cheap crap) and garnish with pickles, onion, sliced jalapenos and sauteed mushrooms and your home-made "Mac" sauce.
Eat.
Die.
I made these suckers on Sunday, and had I died I would have been happy... I'm still here, but my arteries are like brake lines for the experience. Yet, I'm making a couple more as I type this.
Serves four, if everyone eats one.
Ingredients:
1 pound hamburger or ground round.
4 high-quality beef franks (around here, that means Vollwerth's)
6-12 strips of bacon
1 packet onion/mushroom soup mix (I use Lipton)
8 slices of pepper-jack cheese
1 can of mushrooms
1/2 onion
1 jalapeno pepper
Tartar sauce
Thousand Island salad dressing
Sandwich-style pickles
Start with the hamburger. Add 1 egg and 1 packet of onion/mushroom soup mix, and diced onion (I use red, about 3 tbsp). Mix well in bowl, and set aside.
Mix tartar sauce and thousand-island dressing in a 50/50 mix, then add one or the other to taste. This is McDonald's "secret" Big Mac sauce. 65/35 to the favor of thousand island seems about right to me.
In a separate pan, saute some mushrooms. Keep them warm, you'll be needing them.
Fire up the skillet and if you have excess like I do, get about 3/4" of bacon grease to temp. If not, fry enough bacon so that you've got at least 1/8" bacon grease in the bottom of the skillet. You're going to need (at least) six slices of bacon anyhow, so get to it. Cut bacon in half across the middle and set bacon aside.
Cut beef franks in half, then split the halves down the middle. Fry those bad boys in the bacon grease, when done set aside.
Form hamburgers into 1/4-pound patties. Drop 'em in the bacon grease at high heat to sear, then flip and sear the other side. Lower heat and cook to desired taste, flipping once more. Apply 1 slice of pepper-jack cheese and 3 half-strips of bacon, then another slice of cheese. Once the cheese begins to melt, add 3 more half-strips of bacon (if you've cooked 12 strips) and quartered hot dogs, three quarters (strips) to each burger. Leave in pan until cheese is melted.
Remove burgers, serve on good buns (not the cheap crap) and garnish with pickles, onion, sliced jalapenos and sauteed mushrooms and your home-made "Mac" sauce.
Eat.
Die.
I made these suckers on Sunday, and had I died I would have been happy... I'm still here, but my arteries are like brake lines for the experience. Yet, I'm making a couple more as I type this.
physical today so I have a clean bill til next year..... 
:bwuhaha:
