Bacon Bit Burgers with Smoked Gouda and Steak House Smothered Onions and Baby Spinach Salad

Name: Bacon Bit Burgers with Smoked Gouda and Steak House Smothered Onions and Baby Spinach Salad
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 6 smoky bacon slices, chopped into 1/2 inch pieces; 6 tablespoons EVOO (extra-virgin olive oil) plus more for drizzling; 2 yellow onions, 1/4 finely chopped, 1 3/4 thinly sliced; 1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin; 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, eyeball it; 1 teaspoon hot sauce, eyeball it; 1 heaping tablespoon grill seasoning, such as McCormick’s Montreal Steak Seasoning (a rounded palmful); 4 crusty Kaiser rolls, poppy seed or plain, split; 4 slices smoked Gouda; 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon steak sauce, such as A-1 or Lea and Perrins; 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar; 1 sack washed baby spinach leaves; Salt and black pepper

December 9, 2011

Bacon—what’s not to like? It’s smoky flavored salt and fat! Yum-o! In fact, the only way to improve on bacon is to wrap it up with beef and top it with cheese, then open wide! You gotta be more hungry than tired for this one!