I thought the other day that I haven't had a great bacon bleu burger in a while and I decided to improve upon my previous design. What I did was just use some ingredients that were more fresh. I used organic bleu cheese, beef, tomatoes, homemade pickle chips, whole grain mustard made with Guinness, and fire roasted red pepper. The flavors that came out of this behemoth were monstrous and although not that incredibly easy to make, the effort far outweighed the amount of work involved. First off, I made a bleu cheese dressing using bleu crumbles, mayo, and Greek yogurt. I then made stuffed burger patties with fire roasted red pepper and bleu crumbles stuffed inside. I crusted the outside with my blackened spice rub which was sugar, salt, red pepper flake, Cajun seasoning, paprika, and cracked black pepper. Popped the patties into the skillet on medium high heat and cooked to a solid medium temp. The meat was seasoned with the same spices that I crusted them with except I used bread crumbs as a binder and onion flakes. I used roasted egg buns fresh from the bakery and first put the stout mustard on the bottom bun with fresh tomato on that, placed the burger on, topped with the homemade pickles, bacon, and bleu cheese dressing that I made earlier and voila...the masterpiece was born. They were sweet from the mustard, creamy from the dressing, smoky from the bacon, spicy from the spice crust. Definitely made the tastebuds pull off backflips. If you need any advice on how to make these, don't hesitate to shoot me a message on Facebook. Just remember to make food with love. And if you have any ideas to shoot my way, I will definitely try them.
