Burgers for Dinner

Dinner tonight is from a Pin that I saved 17 weeks ago. Not too bad. I am making Whole 30 garlic bacon avocado burgers. Mmmmm! I hope they turn out as delicious as they sound!

I make burgers almost once a week, so starting off our Pinterest adventure with a nice burger is not surprising.

You can find this pin on my Paleo board or just follow the link.

Lets get cooking! I first had to go to the store and buy most of these ingredients. I thought to myself, should I really buy pink Himalayan salt for these burgers? The answer, Yes, Nicole! Do it! Buuut, Shoprite had other plans for me. They didn't have pink Himalayan salt so I ended up going with Morton's Sea Salt in the grinder.



All ingredients in order: check! Time to grind that bacon! I do have a large food processor but I decided to use the small one instead. (Again, does it make a difference?) I put 7 slices of bacon in the processor, locked the lid, and starting pulsing. My tiny food processor started making the sound of a sick cat as the bacon strips literally tangled and twirled around the blade. Oh geeze! Is this going to work the way I thought it was going to?



After a few more attempts, I unwrapped the bacon from the blade, laid it on my cutting board, and started cutting chunks of half ground bacon. I put the pieces back in the food processor and tried again. This time it worked!! Thank goodness!

I emptied all the bacon into a bowl, added my crushed/chopped garlic, my ground beef, salt, pepper and started mixing! I really could smell each ingredient as I was mixing it all together. This is going to be delicious! 

I was pretty proud of myself because I was able to make 7 patties with the mixture. Usually, I make monster burgers and only get about 4. They are a little on the small side and they will probably get smaller after I cook them but my goal is to have left over for lunch tomorrow.



Alrighty. Time to cook these bad boys!  My appliance of choice: my electric griddle. First, I love my griddle! This was the first appliance hubs and I bought together when he was still boyfriend!  And second, I do not own a big enough pan to comfortably cook these. I need to invest in one!



Four and a half minutes on each side and they were perfect. I knew they were going to be so good just how the aroma of bacon danced around our apartment! Mmmmm.
I paired these burgers with fries sprinkled with Old Bay. We were ready for dinner and it was a success!!



I loved them, hubs loved them, AND we had two left over for lunch tomorrow! A win, win, win in my book! On to the next. #thankspinterest #becausepinteresttoldmeso