Monday, January 9, 2012

Cheeseburger Fries

So... in the last few years of my dad's life, he was on a partially restricted diet and was forced to eat *gasp* healthy, low-fat foods. Bacon cheeseburgers were one of the things we always teased him about (because turkey burgers with turkey bacon are just not the same)


A couple of nights before he passed away, my stepmom snuck (sneaked?) him out of the hospital and took him for a burger and a milkshake. When my sister and I flew out to be with her after he died, we had burgers in his honor. Pretty much every time I have a bacon cheeseburger (more often than I am willing to admit), I think about my dad.


It was a year ago today that we lost him so I planned on making bacon cheeseburgers, but realized a bit too late that the ground beef I bought was 80% 20%, which meant it was going to fall apart while I was cooking it.


It's January, so I figured I could make a cheeseburger soup... of course, this is Southern California, so it's 70 degrees today and who wants soup when it's 70?


I decided to make my grossly American version of local specialty, asada fries.


1 pound-ish of ground beef
a couple tablespoons of diced onion
1 bag of frozen fries
shredded cheese
chopped iceberg lettuce
chopped tomato
diced/crumbled bacon
ketchup
mustard
salt and pepper

While you're cooking the fries, brown up the ground beef. About halfway through the cooking process, add the onions, some salt and pepper and a couple of squeezes of ketchup and mustard.

On a comfy little bed of fries, put a scoop of the ground beef, a handful of lettuce and tomato, sprinkle it with cheese and bacon and top it with a drizzle of ketchup.

It's not a pretty meal, but it's a nice little twist on the bacon cheeseburger portion of your food pyramid.

(not pictured: a mess on a plate. A delicious mess on a plate)