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The cheese is on the inside. I like 2 kinds of burgers: one is a cheeseburger with fried onions, pickles, ketchup, and mustard and the other is a burger topped with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, aka a California burger. Substitutions or different combinations are not allowed. Of course that assumes I can eat the one of my choice on a proper hamburger bun….. which I can’t because we don’t have them here. (Yes, I know, there are close approximations, and if you live in a city you can probably get the real thing. I don’t.) So we forget about the bun and I make big, stuffed burgers that we cut and serve. That takes care of my cheeseburger craving. For the California burger I just skip the beef and have tomato sandwiches. Click here to Pin Giant Stuffed Cheeseburger Print Giant Stuffed Cheeseburger A grill basket works best for this, making it easy to turn and take off when ready. Author: Katie Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes Yield: 2 servings 1x Category: Beef Method: Grilling Scale
1x2x3x Ingredients 12oz (350gr) ground beef 1 medium onion, chopped 3oz (90gr) mushrooms, trimmed, chopped 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp cumin 1 1/2oz (45gr) shredded Cheddar cheese wire grill-basket or grill pan Instructions Sauté onion in olive oil over medium heat 5 minutes. Add mushrooms, paprika, cumin and sauté 5 minutes longer. Remove from heat and set aside. Oil grill basket or grill pan. Divide beef in half. On plates or waxed paper pat each half into a thin patty, 6 – 7 inches in diameter. Put the ‘bottom’ patty in the grill basket, or on the grill pan. Spread cheese over patty to within 1/2 inch of edge. Spread onion / mushroom mixture on top of cheese. Flatten the second patty a bit more and carefully put it on top Work the edges together with your fingers to seal. Cook on barbecue grill for 6 – 8 minutes over medium-high heat, carefully turn and grill another 6 – 8 minutes or until done. Hint: when cheese starts oozing out the edge it’s done. Remove to platter and let rest a few minutes Cut into wedges and serve. Notes It’s fine if a bit of cheese starts oozing out but take it off quickly if it happens – it’s done. You could also bake it in the oven on a baking sheet for 30 – 35 minutes, 400F (200C) Keywords: stuffed burger, mushrooms, onions, hamburger I’ve been working on two problems all weekend. The are both the kind of problems that require a methodical, ‘process of elimination’ approach. I hate that approach…. it takes so much time. I’m always in a hurry to get stuff done and this slow, deliberate, necessary process drives me crazy. The first problem was why streaming shows to the TV from my laptop was only working intermittently. The possible culprits were the laptop (6 years old), the wifi extender which is necessary in an old farmhouse with thick stone walls (4 years old), or the router (less than 1 year old). The method involved a lot of plugging and unplugging of stuff. Without boring you with details, I concluded it was the extender and a new one is on its way. Everything in our house gets dirty because of dogs, fires in the winter, and farmers in the summer. I regularly take our computers out to the barn, take the cases off and blow out the dust with an air compressor. Dust could have caused the extender to degrade. I’ll know in a few days if I’m right. The second problem involves this blog. The Yum button is not longer working properly. Is that a blank stare that I detect? For those who are unfamiliar, Yummly is a site that allows you to save recipes to a ‘recipe box’. It does all sorts of other stuff, of course, and, like Pinterest, as a food blogger I need it. In this case I spent the morning disabling and enabling all sorts of stuff and haven’t been able to figure anything out. I still haven’t a clue, although I now know a whole lot more about the inner workings of some of the things I took for granted. I miss the old days….. life was simpler when it was all 1’s and 0’s. Pinterest Facebook Twitter Yummly Linkedin email
