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Serves 4


A jar of homemade pickles


Why wait until summer to eat hamburgers? The ingredients, pictured above from left to right, are: a bag of lettuce/salad greens, fingerling potatoes, 2 red onions, and large rolls or really really small hamburger buns.

Ingredients:
1-1/2 lbs. fingerling potatoes
1 lb. ground beef
2 t salt
2 t pepper
2 red onions
1/3 lb. delicious cheese, like Muenster
1 head of lettuce or 1 bag of salad greens
Pickles of your choice
Mayonnaise

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. Put the fingerling potatoes in a baking pan. Once the oven comes up to temperature, roast the potatoes for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden brown and delicious.


3. Combine the ground beef with the salt, pepper, and egg. Do mix it too much, or the burgers won't be as delicious.

4. Preheat a large skillet or grill pan over medium high heat. Gently form the meat into patties that are slightly larger than the buns you're using. Press a small indent into the center, so that each patty looks like a hockey puck. This will keep the burgers flat while they cook. Put 1 T of vegetable oil in the pan, and cook the burgers for about 3 minutes per side, flipping once. Don't press down on the patties with a spatula while they're cooking: it makes a nice sizzling sound, but that's just the juice running out of the patties. And if the juice is in the pan, it's not in the patties.

5. As you flip the burger, put a piece of the cheese on each patty.

3. Meanwhile, slice the red onions. Saute them in a medium skillet over medium high heat for about 4 minutes.


4. Once the patties are done, toast the buns. The patties should rest for 2 to 3 minutes before you assemble the burgers, so it's a perfect time for bun warming.

5. Assemble the burgers as follows: Bottom bun, lettuce, burger patty, a small bit of red onion, a pickle slice, mayonnaice, top bun. EAT.