I did a little experiment tonight and it came out really well, even the kid loved it, so I thought I'd share it.

Ingredients

8-16oz ground beef (enough for 2 burgers, however you size it)
1/2 lb (half a package) regular bacon, sliced into 1" pieces
1 medium white onion, diced
1 package fresh mushrooms, rinsed, de-stem'd and sliced
4 oz (half a philly bar) cream cheese
1/4 cup - 1/2 cup (your choice) sour cream
fresh garlic, minced (as much as you like)
spices like salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder

Directions

Toss all the bacon pieces in a large frying pan (I use a 12" All-Clad grille pan; a big cast-iron skillet would work well for this) and cook until about 1/2 done. Add the onions and cook until well softened. Then add the mushrooms and cook until soft. Cook the whole mess until it's starting to get brown/black crispy in places. Dump it out on a plate temporarily.

Form your burger into two patties, add your seasonings (I used salt and pepper), and grill each of those in the same pan (with the bacon grease etc.) for 5-7 minutes per side (depending on size). Remove from pan and put on a serving plate.

Dump the other stuff back into the original pan, turn the heat on low, and add the cream cheese chopped into cubes and the sour cream. Stir slowly until it's all melted, and mix all the bacon-onion-mushroom well into it.

Dump that mix over each of the burger patties. Eat.

Calories: About a bazillion and will depend on exact portions of everything.

Carbs: Probably somewhere between 6 and 10, depending on your bacon and how big your mushroom/onion portion was.

Your 11 year old saying, "I want this every day when I come home from school!" -- priceless. :-) And to think, she used to beg for Ramen or hot pockets or mac&cheese. :-)

PS for people who don't do dairy, you could just leave out the sour cream and cream cheese, because even the bacon-mushroom-onion mix was really really good. :-)

PJ

This sounds delish..gonna try it this week.

Lisa

PJ...wow, this sounds wonderful. and perfect for my high-fatting regimen. Now *you* are the Kitchen Goddess. I think this would be good with those little mock-tender steaks (chuck steaks)...or something more expensive, of course!

I know this is an old post, but I needed a meatball recipes and OMG this looks delicious.
Thanks for posting Carol

BP, thanks for bumping this up! I'm going to give it a try!

I'm going to add Italian sausage to my next batch to spice them up a bit.
Baking instead of frying is a great idea!

I found this recipe online today after having them at a few restaurants...absolutely AWESOME

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives...icy_loosey.html

minus the bun of course

Can you post the link to the original recipe, please?

Rosebud

well, that is the original recipe, but I got it from here...

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives...icy_loosey.html

Thank you. If you have a look through our kitchen forum rules (stickied in each of the recipe forums), you'll see that we ask you to always post a link to recipes from the net, to avoid copyright problems.

Rosebud

No problem. Hope you try them out they're sooo awesome!

I will definitely be trying these on "ground beef" night!! I think I have found something to do with this pepperjack cheese I have laying around!!! thanks!

Why not cheddar or swiss? I did not see any "note above"....

Maybe it is due to the cheddar "separating"? Cheddar never melts as good as some of the others. Not sure if that is it or not. I tried these and they are very yummy!!!