Thursday, 9/30/2010

I planned to make meatloaf for dinner tonight.  Unfortunately, I didn't look at the recipe close enough to see that I needed one and a half pounds of hamburger.  I only had one pound.  So, Katie and I did a mad dash to the grocery store to get more hamburger at the last minute.  We got the ground beef and then decided to make hamburgers instead.  The meatloaf would have taken an hour to prepare and bake.  I knew we would be too hungry to wait for another hour, plus the five minutes to drive home.  

It was a good decision to go with the burgers.  They were fantastic!!!  We grilled them with a little butter in the center of each patty.  YUM!  Topped with cheddar cheese and crispy bacon, these burgers were probably our best yet.  I seasoned the ground beef with A-1 steak sauce, Lawry's seasoning salt, black pepper, and a touch of cayenne pepper.  We used sandwich thins for buns and had raspberry, banana, and grape fruit salads on the side.  Katie loved the raspberries and grapes.  She said she wanted "burger", but in the end, it seemed like she just wanted ketchup.  Incidentally, she likes grapes dipped in ketchup.