We’re taking that Italian flavor and combining it with a burger. Delizioso!

For this Caprese burger, I combined the core mozzarella, tomato, and basil flavors with some olive oil, salt, and pepper, and toasted the bun for a little more crunch like you’d get in bruschetta.

I’ve seen some people also add balsamic vinegar to the top of these, so you could also give that a shot. This burger is pretty light and refreshing. If you want more punch, I think some Italian-type peppers or even a touch of cayenne might work on the burger.

Another quick tip: I’ve been using this burger press to quickly make perfect burgers. It’s especially helpful when you want to make a bunch of burgers.

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Caprese Burger

A fresh Italian flavored caprese burger with mozarella, tomato and basil.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword burger, cheeseburger

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4 burgers

Ingredients

• 4 Hamburger Buns
• 1 lb Ground Beef 80% lean / 20% fat
• 1 Tomato
• 1 ball Mozzarella fresh – usually in with fancier cheeses
• 1 bunch Basil Leaves
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive Oil

Instructions

• Slice tomato, mozzarella, and basil leaves
• Flatten meat into patties that are about 1/2 inch larger than the buns. Flavor with salt & pepper.
• Cook burger on grill or in cast iron pan with oil.
• Flip burger after seeing moisture build on top.
• Add mozzarella to melt & optionally toast buns on grill. Cook burger to 140 for medium, 150 for medium-well.
• Place burger on bun topped with tomato slice & basil. Add a drizzle of olive oil and some salt & pepper. Enjoy!

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I knew the Chili Cheese Burger would be good, but I had no idea it’d be one of my favorites. The tomato, chili spices, and cheese all go together amazingly well as a burger. It’s really simple to make too, so you’ve gotta give this burger a try.

Making The Chili

To make this a true chili cheese burger, we’re going to make a chili topping. This helps incorporate the chili spices & tomato into the burger. It’s a really simple version of chili that only takes a few minutes to make.

All it takes is frying up some onions and then adding a bit of extra ground beef, spices, and tomato. This chili adds extra flavor and texture to the burger.

Creating the Chili Cheese Burger

To make the burger we’ll follow the normal procedure, but spice the meat up just a bit with some chili powder & garlic powder. After cooking on one side and flipping we’ll add in our chili & cover in cheese.

It’s helpful to have a lid or another pan to set on top at this point to get the cheese to melt faster. Once it does you’ll see how amazing this burger is looking!

Topping It Off

Slide that burger on a bun and you’re just about ready to go. I like to add some extra spice to my chili so I recommend adding some sliced jalapeños to the top. I’m also adding some green onions for a bit more flavor. Plus it just makes this amazing burger look even better.

Enjoy this incredible burger!

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Chili Cheese Burger

The Chili Cheese Burger is one of my favorites. The tomato, chili spices, and cheese all go together amazingly well as a burger. Make one today!

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

Burger

• 1.5 Lbs Ground Beef (2lbs total for recipe) 80% lean / 20% fat
• 1 Tbsp Chili Powder
• 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
• Salt & Pepper
• 1 Bag Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Chili

• 1/2 Lb Ground Beef
• 1/2 Onion diced
• 1 Tbsp Chili Powder
• 1 Tbsp Cumin
• 1 Tbsp Paprika
• 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
• 15 oz Canned Tomatoes
• 8 oz Canned Tomato Sauce
• Green Onions diced to top
• Vegetable Oil

Instructions

• Dice up onion & green onion. Set aside green onion for final topping.

Chili Topping

• Heat some oil in a pan & cook onion until softened.
• Add 1/2 Lb of ground beef & cook until browned.
• Add chili powder, cumin, paprika, garlic powder, tomatoes & tomato sauce. Stir to combine and warm. Set aside.

Burger

• Add chili powder & garlic powder to remaining hamburger and mix. Make 4 patties.
• Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and cook burgers for 1.5 min on first side.
• Flip burgers & top with chili and then cheese. Cook until done (about another minute or 2). Top with a lid to melt cheese.
• Add burger to bun & top with jalapeños & green onions. Enjoy!

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If you’re not familiar with In-N-Out, it’s a fast-food burger joint that started on the West Coast. It’s been around a long time (1948) but has stayed small because they never allowed franchises to keep control of the quality. Just like when McDonalds started, In-N-Out focuses on only serving great burgers (and also soda, fries & shakes).

In-N-Out only offers a few varieties of their burger: hamburger, cheeseburger, and double-double (2 patties and 2 slices of cheese). There are a few “secret menu” variations that you can order including increasing the patty count (3×3 or 4×4), protein style (wrapped with lettuce instead of a bun), or Animal Style. For our In-N-Out burger recipe, we’ll build a double-double animal style.

An Animal Style burger is slightly different from the standard burger because it has grilled onions, pickles, and extra special sauce. It’s also cooked with some yellow mustard.

In-N-Out Burger Sauce Recipe

In-N-Out has their own burger sauce that is unique to the chain. You can pretty closely replicate it by combing 2 parts mayo, 1 part ketchup and some sweet relish. The sauce really enhances the burger to make this guy taste authentic.

Building the In-N-Out Burger Recipe

The rest of the burger is pretty simple. Just high quality ingredients. One trick for the animal style burger is to top your burger with some yellow mustard before flipping it. This cooks some extra flavor into the meat.

The standard burger has regular onions on it, but the animal style has them diced and grilled. It’s up to you what you’d prefer. Finally, the bottom of the burger has 4 pickle chips added.

If you’ve got a chance to try out an In-N-Out go for it, they’re great! But if not, give this In-N-Out burger recipe a try to see why it’s so good!

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In-N-Out Burger

Not much beats In-N-Out when it comes to fast food burgers. Try this out to make a similar burger at home!

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Ingredients

• 1 Lb Ground Beef 80% lean / 20% fat
• 1 Onion diced
• 1 Tomato
• Yellow Mustard
• 4 Slices American Cheese
• Lettuce
• Pickles Hamburger Chips / Slices
• 2 Hamburger Buns
• Vegetable Oil

Sauce

• 1 Tbsp Ketchup
• 1 Tbsp Mayo
• 2 Tsp Sweet Relish

Instructions

• Make sauce by combining ketchup, mayo & relish. Set aside.
• Dice onion & slice tomato. Prep lettuce.
• Flatten meat into patties that are about 1/2 inch larger than the buns. Optionally flavor with salt & pepper.
• If you'd like grilled onions. Put in a pan over med-low heat with 1 tsp of oil. Stir often until browned. If oil dries out add 1 tbsp of water to prevent burning. Once done set aside.
• Optionally, toast the hamburger buns face down in the onion pan.
• Add a tablespoon of oil to cast-iron pan. Place on stove on med-high heat until hot (just beginning to smoke). You may want to turn on a vent fan. (You can grill these as well for a slightly different flavor)
• Add meat to pan & cook for about 1.5 min. Add mustard to the top of the burger and then flip.
• Place a piece of cheese on top of each patty & finish cooking for about 30 secs to 1 min for medium.
• Place sauce on bottom bun, then pickles, tomato & lettuce. Then add a burger, some onions, the second burger and some more onions. Enjoy!

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If you’ve been to an Applebee’s restaurant, you may have had a quesadilla burger before. This is going to be pretty similar without being an exact copycat.

Quesadilla Burger Toppings

There are all kinds of awesome toppings you can choose from for this burger. Some options include:

• salsa / pico de gallo
• bell peppers
• corn
• black or pinto beans
• avocado / guacamole
• cilantro
• lettuce
• tomatoes
• jalapeño or chipotle peppers
• sour cream
• bacon

Feel free to pick out your favorites, or follow along with the choices I made. For my version I’m adding some pico de gallo, sliced avocado, diced jalapeños, and shredded lettuce.

Finally, I’m topping it off with a mixture of 50/50 ranch and taco sauce. You can’t go wrong!

Making The Quesadilla Burger

To make this a quesadilla burger, we’ll take two small tortillas and top with shredded Mexican cheese. Cooking them is simple. Just grease a pan and put it over med-low heat for a few minutes. Then toast the tortillas until the cheese on top melts.

To add some extra flavor to the burger meat, we’re adding in some cumin and chili powder. Then shape your burger to match the size of the tortillas. It’ll be a little bigger than a normal burger. Keep in mind that the burger will shrink up a bit as its cooked.

Once you’ve cooked up the burger, drop it on one of the tortillas and then stack up your ingredients. This burger is awesome – but slightly messy. To make it easier you could try and eat it with a fork/knife… or get a good knife and slice it right in half.

Enjoy your amazing quesadilla burger!

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Quesadilla Burger

The quesadilla burger is easy to make and delicious! It has 2 cheesy tortilla halves, pico de gallo, sliced avocado, lettuce, jalapeños and taco-ranch sauce.

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

Burger

• 1 Lb Ground Beef 80% lean / 20% fat
• 1/2 Tsp Cumin
• 1/4 Tsp Chili Powder
• Cooking Oil

Toppings

• 8 Small Tortillas
• Shredded Mexican Cheese
• Shredded Lettuce
• 2 Avocados sliced
• 1 Jalapeño optional
• 1 Cup Pico de gallo or salsa

Sauce

• 1/2 Cup Ranch Dressing
• 1/4 Cup Taco Sauce

Instructions

• Prep toppings by dicing jalapeño and removing avocado seed & slicing
• Set out 8 tortillas (2 for each burger) and top each with shredded cheese.
• Mix burger meat with cumin & chili powder. Divide into 4 patties that are about the size of the tortillas.
• Cook on grill or in pan on the stove turning once half way through. Cook until done (140F for medium) about 1.5 min per side or 2x that on the grill.
• Lightly coat 2nd pan with cooking oil and heat to med/low heat. Place tortillas (as many as will fit at a time) with cheese up on the pan and wait for cheese to just melt. Remove & add additional tortillas.
• Place burger on tortilla, top with your ingredients. Finish off with the ranch-taco sauce and the other tortilla. Cut in half and enjoy!

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There are a lot of good ingredients that could be used to make up an Irish burger. I’ve taken a few favorites to make this burger irresistible. Think of it as burger meets corned beef sandwich.

Corned Beef Topped Irish Burger

Corned beef is salt-cured beef, treated with large-grain ‘corns’ of salt. This was originally done to preserve the meat. Today corned beef has has become an Irish-American favorite. In the US, St. Patrick’s Day food often consists of corned beef sandwiches or corned beef and cabbage.

The best corned beef comes fresh from the deli and will make this burger awesome. Pile it as high as you want!

Guinness Mustard

Next up for Irish Burger ingredients is Guinness. The classic Irish beer is the #1 alcoholic drink in Ireland and popular world-wide. It’s crazy to think that this dry stout was first brewed in 1759.

You can drink a Guinness along with your Irish burger, but let’s also cook with it! Instead of using the standard mustard we’ll make Guinness mustard.

This doesn’t change the mustard too much, but it gives it a little bit of sweetness and richness. Simply add Guinness & brown sugar to coarse dijon mustard.

Finishing off the Irish Burger

A few finishing touches and our delicious burger ready to eat. First off we’ll add some Swiss cheese & thinly sliced onions to the burger.

Then we’ll toast up some marbled rye bread to put it on. You can do this by putting some butter in a pan or using a toaster. When making your burger, make sure to shape it to the size of your bread.

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Irish Burger

Get lucky with the Irish Burger. Topped with Corned Beef, Guinness mustard, Swiss cheese, and onions. Totally awesome!

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 25 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

Guinness Mustard

• 1/2 Cup Coarse Dijon Mustard aka country dijon
• 2 Tbsp Guinness
• 1 Tsp Brown Sugar

Burger

• 1 Lb Ground Beef
• 1 Sweet Onion thinly sliced
• 1 Lb Corned Beef
• 4 Slices Swiss Cheese
• 8 Slices Marbled Rye

Instructions

• Mix mustard ingredients into a small bowl. Optionally, add additional sugar or Guinness to flavor. Cover & set in fridge. You can do this up to a day ahead of time.
• Cut onion in half and thinly slice.
• Form four 1/4 pound burgers in the shape of the bread you're using.
• Toast bread in toaster or with butter in a pan. Spread mustard on each piece of toast (so both top/bottom of the insides are coated).
• Salt & pepper both sides of the patties and then cook on pan or grill. Flip & add cheese. Cook until done (140F for medium) - usually about 3-5 min a side on a grill or 1.5 min on a pan.
• Place burger on a slice of bread. Top with sliced onions & corned beef. Enjoy!

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First off, forget the cheese dust packet. It’s not tough to make mac and cheese with real cheese, and it’s so much better. All you need is some milk, flour, butter, and cheese. We’re looking to step up our game with this buffalo chicken mac and cheese, so we’ll switch that up a bit.

Buffalo Chicken

The first ingredient we need for our buffalo chicken mac and cheese is some chicken. You can cook a chicken breast in the oven and shred it, or cook some ground chicken in a pan. If you don’t want any chicken, I’m sure this is as great without it.

Making the Sauce

Mac and cheese should be creamy & delicious. To accomplish that, we’re going to mix in some ground mustard, eggs, cornmeal, evaporated milk and buffalo sauce. Stir that all up so it’s blended.

Pile on the Cheese

We’ve got a ton of flavor going into this buffalo mac and cheese recipe, so we’re going to use some basic cheddar and American cheeses. Then to add a little more killer flavor we’ll top it off with some blue cheese.

If you’re not doing the buffalo mac, you can follow this same recipe and switch up the cheese. You’ll want to use a cheese that melts well such as:

• Gouda
• Swiss
• American
• Muenster
• Gruyere
• Monterey Jack
• Fontina
• Cheddar

Also some of these come aged but you’ll want to avoid that and use a ‘young’ version of the cheese.

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Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese

Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese is the most amazing comfort food! Try it as a side or a main dish. And add some punch by topping it with blue cheese.

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Ingredients

• 1 Lb Elbow Macaroni
• 2 Cups Shredded Chicken about 2 small chicken breasts
• 12 Oz Evaporated Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 3/4 Cup Buffalo Sauce Franks Red Hot
• 1 Tsp Ground Mustard
• 1 Tbsp Corn Starch
• 1 Lb Sharp Cheddar grated
• 8 Oz American Cheese
• 1 Stick Butter
• Blue Cheese to top

Instructions

• First cook & then shred your chicken (you can do this in a pan or in the oven for about 15-20 min).
• Set a pan of water to boil and add some salt.
• Add noodles & cook until just beginning to soften (about 8 min).
• While noodles are cooking, mix eggs, buffalo sauce, mustard, corn starch, & evaporated milk in a med/large sized bowl. Stir until blended.
• Grate cheddar cheese and cut American cheese into smaller cubes and set aside.
• Strain pasta. Add butter and pasta to hot pan over low heat. Stir until butter is melted and then add sauce, cheese, and chicken.
• Continue stirring until cheese is melted. Remove from heat, serve & top with blue cheese. Enjoy!

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But first, one little secret… did you know the chipotle pepper is actually a jalapeño?

The Making of a Chipotle

When you get a jalapeño pepper you’re usually buying the unripe green peppers. A jalapeño actually turns red when it’s ripe at the end of the season (you can buy them this way too).

To make a chipotle pepper, farmers let jalapeños ripen until they turn red and begin to dry out. Then they pick them and put them in a smoker for several days until they dry out and shrivel up.

The Chipotle Burger Recipe

So how are we going to turn this delicious, smokey pepper into a burger?

First, we’re going to get a can of chipotles in adobo sauce. Adobo sauce is made with tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, salt, and spices such as cumin and oregano. It pairs great with the peppers and will add flavor to our burgers.

The peppers have seeds in them that can be removed by slicing length-wise and pulling them out.

Next, we’ll dice up the peppers and put them in the burger meat & make an aioli to top it all off.

Choose Your Spice Level

We’ll use the peppers in an aioli for the top of the burger as well as mixing them in with the meat. This burger wasn’t outrageously spicy, but it had some heat to it. If you want to cut back on the spice: mix only adobo sauce in the meat (instead of the peppers) or use less of the diced pepper.

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Chipotle Burger

This chipotle burger recipe features the spicy, smokey chipotle pepper. Yes that's a pepper, not just a giant burrito. Topped with chipotle aioli!

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

Burger

• 1 Lb Ground Beef 80% lean / 20% fat
• 1 Tbsp Minced Chipotle Pepper from chipotles in adobo sauce
• 1 Tbsp Garlic Minced
• Salt & Pepper to flavor
• 4 Slices Pepper Jack Cheese

Chipotle Aioli

• 3/4 Cup Mayo
• 1 Tbsp Lime Juice
• 2 Tbsp Minced Chipotle Pepper from chipotles in adobo sauce
• 1 Tbsp Garlic Minced
• 1/4 Tsp Salt

Instructions

• Open can of chipotles in adobo sauce. Remove 3-4 peppers and slice length-wise to open & remove seeds.
• Mince chipotles & mix with other ingredients to make aioli. Set aside or in the refrigerator. 
• Gently mix chipotle & garlic into ground beef. Optionally add some adobo sauce to the mix. Form into patties.
• Salt & pepper both sides of the patties and then cook on pan or grill. Flip & add cheese. Cook until done (140F for medium) - usually about 3-5 min a side on a grill or 1.5 min on a pan.
• Top burgers with aioli and enjoy!

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Buffalo chicken dip is a combination of:

• chicken
• cream cheese
• buffalo sauce
• ranch dressing
• cheddar cheese

You’ll want the chicken to be cooked evenly and moist enough to shred easily. I wouldn’t normally boil chicken, but in this case it works best. After that’s done you can decide how you’re going to prepare the dip.

Variations on Buffalo Chicken Dip & Spice

If you want to experiment, there are a couple tweaks to the recipe you can try out. First, you can swap out the ranch dressing for blue cheese or top with blue cheese crumbles. This is a great option, but not everyone loves blue cheese, so know your audience.

Another option is varying the spice. This is by no means spicy for my taste, but some people are more sensitive to spice. To tame it down a bit just add less buffalo sauce or sometimes you can find a mild sauce.

Choose Your Cooking Method

The recipe I’m suggesting involves using a crockpot on low for a couple hours to cook the dip. This is an easy set it and forget it way to make the dip. Then you can transport it somewhere and just plug it back in to stay warm. If you don’t have the time to let the crockpot do it’s thing you can try baking it. Put the ingredients in a baking dish and cook for about 20-25 min at 350 degrees.

Buffalo Chicken Dip Side Options

There are tons of things that go great with buffalo chicken dip. It’s got a lot of flavor so I’d stick to things that have simple flavors. Some of my favorites are:

• tortilla chips
• celery sticks
• carrots
• cauliflower
• baguettes / bread

This dip is definitely not healthy but it’s a nice way to get some veggies in the mix when eating apps. It makes anything taste incredible. If you have any other great ideas to scoop up this dip with feel free to leave them in the comments.

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Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo chicken dip is always a hit with a group. Imagine turning buffalo wings into a creamy, cheesy dip that you can put on anything. Serious Yum!

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 2 hours hours 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 2 hours hours 25 minutes minutes

Servings 10

Ingredients

• 1 Chicken Breast
• 1 Block Cream Cheese 8oz
• 1 Cup Ranch Dressing
• 1 Cup Buffalo Sauce less to decrease spice
• 1/4 Cup Sharp Cheddar Cheese shredded
• Food for dipping tortilla chips, celery, etc (see list above)

Instructions

• Bring a pot of water to a boil.
• Cut chicken breast in half and boil in water until cooked (about 15min).
• Let chicken breast cool & then shred using hands or 2 forks.
• Cook in crockpot (or see alternative oven directions in article) by adding all ingredients & then top with shredded cheese. 
• Set crockpot to low heat for 2 hours.
• Stir before serving with your choice of dipper (chips, veggies, etc).

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Jalapeño poppers are a classic app to eat while watching your favorite team. As I write this the Super Bowl is coming up soon so I was looking for some burger inspiration.

Unfortunately, my Vikings don’t make it to the big game very often so I’m usually more focused just enjoying the event. That revolves around good food and I couldn’t think of a much better combo than a jalapeño popper burger.

And boy was I right!

Jalapeño Popper Burger Stuffing

I tried making these burgers a couple different ways: bacon stuffed & bacon wrapped. I think you could go either way with it. The stuffed version was a little more blended flavor and the topped version was more bacon flavor.

To make the filling I diced up two jalapeños. Then I added those to a half package (40z) of cream cheese in a bowl. Finally, take a fork and mix it all up so the peppers are evenly distributed.

Getting the Burgers Prepped

I made 6 sliders out of a pound of ground beef. So I cut the beef in half, and then split each half into thirds. You’ll end up with 6 balls of meat.

For each burger, split the ball in half and press it out thinly to make a bottom & top. These will be pretty thin, but don’t go so thin that they fall apart. If you do this on some wax paper it’ll be easier to lift up and avoid the thin patty sticking to the plate.

Add a scoop of filling to every other burger half and spread it out. Top it off with crumbled bacon. Then just put one half on top and carefully press the corners together to seal it up.

Cooking It Up

You can choose to grill these guys up or cook them on the stove. It’s cold here at the moment so I put some oil in a hot cast iron pan and cooked them that way. They’re pretty thin so they won’t take long (about 1.5min per side). On a grill they’ll take just a little bit longer, but not much.

Feel free to try this out out either in slider form or as a full burger. The process is exactly the same, just with a longer cook time.

There you have it! The jalapeño popper burger in slider form… now go enjoy the game!

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Jalapeño Popper Burger

The Jalapeño Popper Burger is what you get when an awesome app meets a delicious burger. Sure to please & stuffed with cream cheese, jalapeños & bacon.

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 6 Sliders

Ingredients

• 4 Slices Bacon
• 2 Jalapeños Diced
• 4 Oz Cream Cheese
• 1 Lb Ground Beef 80% lean / 20% fat
• Salt
• Pepper
• 6 Slider Buns
• Wax Paper optional

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325. Put bacon on a cooking sheet & cook for about 20 min flipping half way through. (or cook on stovetop)
• Slice stems off jalapeños, cut out the cores to remove seeds. Then dice.
• Add cream cheese & diced jalapeños to a bowl. Mix with fork until blended.
• Divide burger meat in half and then divide each half into 3 to end up with 6 balls of the same size. 
• Take each ball and divide in half for the top & bottom of a burger. Shape into two thin patties that are about the size of the buns. If you have wax paper to work on it'll help prevent sticking.
• Take a spoonful of cream cheese & jalapeño and spread onto half the patties. Crumble bacon and put on top.
• Take the other half of the patty and set it on top of the filled patty. Squeeze the edges together to form a single burger.
• Cook on grill or in pan on the stove turning once half way through. Note times will be shorter if making sliders (about 1.5min per side on the stove & maybe a few minutes per side).

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Fries come in all shapes and sizes; from thin shoe-string fries to thick cut wedges. The easiest solution is to just buy some frozen fries from the grocery store and put them in the oven. The down-side of those fries are they just aren’t as fresh tasting and don’t have the same awesome crust. You end up with a ‘just ok’ mushy substitute.

If you want to up your french fry game you can either get frying or make these oven baked potato wedges. These use fresh potatoes so they’re fluffy when you bite into them. Creating your own batter also means they have a great texture and crispness. They do take a little extra work, but sometimes it’s just worth it!

Tips for Baked Potato Wedges

I found some tweaks for this recipe in J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s The Food Lab. If you don’t have that book I’d recommend checking it out. He goes through the science behind making awesome food and it’s got a ton of recipes.

The tricks he mentions for making these fries:

• pre-cooking the potatoes
• mixing the flour with cornstarch to improve the texture

The process is pretty simple. First wash & cut the potatoes before boiling them. Then soak them in buttermilk so the dredge has something to attach itself to. Finally coat them in the flour & cornstarch and put them in the oven.

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Baked Potato Wedges

Oven Baked Potato Wedges are awesome if you want fresh homemade fries without the mess of frying. Hot, fluffy, and delicious with any meal.

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

• 3 Russet Potatoes large
• 1 1/2 Tbsp White Vinegar
• 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
• 1 1/2 Cups Buttermilk
• 3/4 Cup Flour
• 1/2 Cup Cornstarch
• 1 Tsp Baking Powder
• 2 Tsp Garlic Powder
• 2 Tsp Paprika
• 1/2 Tsp Cayenne Pepper
• Pepper
• Salt

Instructions

• Wash & cut potatoes in half the long way. Then cut into wedges about 1/2 inch thick.
• Add potatoes to pan with vinegar and water. Bring up to a boil and cook until just tender. Check with a fork (about 10 min).
• Preheat oven to 400F.
• While potatoes are cooking mix seasonings, flour, cornstarch & baking powder into a medium bowl.
• Strain cooked potatoes & put back in pan or a large bowl. Add buttermilk and gently toss to soak for 5 min.
• Add vegetable oil to a rimmed baking pan and put in oven to get hot.
• Drain potatoes & then dredge them in powder mixture to coat evenly.
• Put the potatoes in a fine strainer to shake off the extra powder. You don't want any areas to be too thickly clumped on or you may have some powdery bites.
• Place potatoes on baking pan. The hot oil will help them get a fried texture.
• Bake for 10 minutes then flip and bake until crust is golden brown (about 10-15 more minutes).
• Remove from oven & salt potatoes. Optionally you can add other spices like rosemary & oregano. Or try seasoned salt for extra flavor.

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