...Burger Bonanza

I was watching a burger special on the Food Network with my roommate Josh on Saturday evening waiting on some of the basketball games to start.  We were salivating over the awesome creations that were featured on the show, with a wide variety of ingredients and condiments.  So we knew we had to try to make our own.

We got the fattest meat we could find (80/20 chuck) and all of these items to add to it:
- Tempura batter (to use when frying the sweet onion rings and sweet potato fries)
- Pepper-jack cheese

- Bella mushrooms

- Tomatoes

- Avocado
- Wasabi mix (to make wasabi mayonnaise)

- Sweet onion

- Sweet potatoes












- Kaiser rolls

We made two very large hamburgers (almost a pound each) and had some chicken for our Indian roommate so he could partake.

Then we started to make our onion rings and dipped them in ice cold tempura batter.

Then we sauted the mushrooms in lots of butter.  Paula Dean eat your heart out.

 And we finally grilled all of the meet to perfection.












With a little pepper-jack on top melted of course.

This first one is Josh's creation.












The next is Neil's chicken sandwich.












And finally I broke my sandwich down into the steps so you can see all of the ingredients.

And yes, that sandwich did end up being 5 inches tall!