Not your typical hamburger story...

Tuesday night, Jamie and I ate hamburgers. I was inspired by the Lodge grill pan that I recently acquired, and it turned out to be a wonderful meal! I scoured websites for hamburger recipes, and was once again inspired by PW. See her Favorite Burger to see the recipe that inspired mine!

No pictures exist of the hamburgers for two reasons: 1. the lighting is terrible in my apartment at night, and 2. the grill pan started smoking, causing the fire alarm to continuously go off, causing lots of stress and craziness in our apartment. The pictures actually would have been quite fun to see - Jamie fanning the alarm with a pillow and frantically trying to get a fan out from under our bed, and me continuing on with my burger adventure...

Anyways, here is what I did, in words, not pictures, and I highly recommend making these burgers! 

Ingredients:

• 1 Red onion
• 2 T butter
• 2 T brown sugar
• 1 lb. 85/15 ground beef
• garlic powder
• pepper
• salt
• Tabasco sauce
• 4 Sourdough Rolls (I used Trader Joe's bake-at-home rolls... yum!)
• butter (for spreading on rolls)
• a couple spoonfulls of mayonnaise
• about 2 oz. goat cheese
• Arugula

Instructions:

Heat up grill pan on medium high heat.

Heat 2 T butter in a skillet. Slice red onion onion, and add to melted butter. Add 2 T brown sugar, and stir. Cook on low for about 20 minutes.

Mix beef with some garlic powder, salt, pepper, and Tabasco sauce. No need to measure! Split into four evenly sized patties, and put them on the hot grill pan!

Slice rolls in half, and spread with butter. Place these on the grill pan as well. Flip the burgers after about 5 minutes or so, whenever you feel that they are about halfway done, according to how you like your burgers cooked! Take the rolls off as soon as they are lightly toasted.

In the mean-time, mix the mayonnaise with a little tabasco to make a spicy mayo. When the burgers are done, spread a little spicy mayo on the rolls, and place the burgers topped with onions, goat cheese, and arugula in between the two ends of the rolls... they will be absolutely delicious, and I will make them again sometime and post a picture :)

Also, We made them alongside Trader Joe's garlic fries, which were very tasty with this burger! They have a LOT of garlic, and are very strong, so if you don't like garlic, they are not for you, but if you do like garlic, you'll love 'em!