Hellz Writer's Bacon Cheeseburger

For those of you that watch shows like Diners, Drive ins and Dives.  You may have seen those juicy burgers that can take 2-people to eat.  Maybe you have gone to that great hamburger joint that makes their burgers so big and juicy.  Yet, when you go home to make your burger, it tends to be this tiny little patty.  Hardly any flavor and it's dry. Yes, I know.  I have made those tiny little patties.  Which made me seek new ways to make food better.  Before I started to watch the Food Network, I was always experimenting with food.  Call me a self taught Chef.  I love food and if you really enjoy cooking....you will always find ways to cook it better.

Ingredients

• 3 lbs of hamburger meat
• 1 lb Italian sausage {{Optional}}
• 1 package of bacon
• 1/4 tsp onion powder
• 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tsp ground cilantro {{One cube}}
• 1 tbsp Garlic salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp caldo de pollo with tomato
• Buns {{I prefer the wheat kind}}
• Tomatoes
• Cheese {{Optional}}
•  Avocados {{Optional}}
• Onions

Utensils 

• Cutting board
• Measuring spoons
• Knife
• Plate
• Frying pan
• Bowl
• Spatula

Part 1: Prep

• In the bowl put the hamburger meat, onion powder, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic salt, caldo de pollo, black pepper and ground cilnatro.  {{Optional: Italian sausage}}
• Mixed all the stuff together and let it marinate
• Grab your cutting board and knife onto a clean surface.  Cut your onions, avocados and tomatoes.  Place those on a clean plate

Part 2: Combination

• Wipe off your cutting board and take a handful of marinated hamburger meat
• Place the marinated hamburger meat on the cutting board.
• Form in a circular motion a patty.  Slowly pressing down. Smooth out any cracks, but keep forming it.
• Open your package of bacon
• Grab a strip of bacon. Stretch out the bacon.  Wrap the bacon around the hamburger patty.  Use a secondary bacon strip.  
• Grab 2-more strips of bacon and stretch it.  But go in the opposite direction.
• Repeat this for the remainder of your marinated meat.

Part 3: Cooking

• Cook until bacon is cooked your way.  Either crispy or soft.
• Add your choice of cheese until melted.
• Dress up your burger the way you want.  With tomatoes, avocados and onions or onion rings and whatever else you want.   

Serve with your choice of onion rings, french fries or whatever else you want.
I know I have cooked this hamburger in several different ways.  With cheese and with out.   Using the Italian sausage in it and using jalepenos in it.  So many different ways to make it.  But of course the basic recipe of it allows the hamburger to have so much flavor to it.  I know I have sauteed mushrooms in the grease of hamburgers allowing the flavor to soak into it.  My suggestion is to share with someone because this cheeseburger/hamburger can feed two people.  You will be full.  So either be starving or share.

Happy cooking

~Irenia Guajardo~