Bacon Cheddar Stuffed Burger

Sundays' are saved for lazy days.  We laid around all day and decided to have a last minute cookout.  I had been craving a big juicy burger for some time now.  Especially a stuffed burger.  Last minute, our friends Jon, Linn and Scott came over.  As I prepared the pasta salad, Jon and Linn picked up the ground beef for the burgers and Scott picked up a variety of sausages from HEB...which are amazing by the way.  

While they were on their way over, I cooked down some bacon and put together a quick potato salad.  I also had some Italian sausage in the freezer I had bought at the local farmer's market and took that out to mix in with the ground beef.  I always love onions on my burgers so I decided to caramelize some onion with jalapenos. 

By the time the ground beef got there, I threw together the patties real quick.  I must have been hungry because I grabbed a round Tupperware lid to form the patties and did not realize how big the lid was.  Between the ground beef and Italian sausage, it was about 4 pounds of meat mixture and only got 5 hamburger patties out it!  The meat was simply seasoned with salt and pepper wince I was counting on most of the flavor to come from the Italian sausage.  

To form the patties, all I did was put a layer of meat in the lid, topped it with bacon and cheddar cheese and then another layer of meat.  

The Menu for the day:

Bacon Cheddar stuffed Burgers

Potato Salad

Bacon wrapped jalapeno with cream cheese

Grilled corn

And a variety of sausages

Now I do not know if the pictures do the burger any justice, but compare the thickness of the patty to the bun, or the fact that it almost took up the entire plate!

The end result was a very large juicy burger!  I was very thankful for the perfect amount of heat.  If the heat would have been any hotter, I do not think the burgers would have been fully cooked through without burning.