cambridge cowgirl: Hamburgers... again!

Last month, we made some amazing hamburgers, but because of the insanity that occured during the making of them, I wasn't able to take any pictures. We made the same hamburgers again last night, and this time I was prepared by 1. Jamie's invention of placing a shower cap over the smoke detector so it wouldn't go off and 2. reading about smoke and flash points of different oils - I learned that olive oil was the wrong oil to spray onto the griddle before using! This time, I used canola and there was MUCH LESS smoking.

Anyways, here is the recipe again, I made a slight change, as the onions turned out too sweet, so I decreased the amount of butter and brown sugar by 1 T each. Following the ingredient list are some step by step pictures of the process as well!

Ingredients:

1 Red onion
1 T butter
1 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 1 T butter in a skillet.

Slice red onion onion, and add to melted butter. Add 1 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,