Day--364 Basil Avocado Cheeseburger recipe

Preface:

Yes yes, we're at the beginning of bikini season and we all want flat abs and killer legs, but hey, let's indulge ourselves one more weekend and start those weight-loss resolutions on June 1st, eh?  Excellent!

There aren't that many things in this world as perfectly consistent and yummy as a cheeseburger. Cheeseburgers are pretty hard to fuck up, and you have so many options of toppings that burgers are in many ways always custom made.  But that doesn't mean that all cheeseburgers are fantastic.  Very few, in fact, wow you.  Well my friends, heat up that little smoky and prepare for the best damn burger you've ever had. 

Basil Avocado Cheeseburgers

Ingredients:

2 pounds hamburger meat 80% lean

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

4 leaves of fresh basil

salt and pepper

6 slices of American cheese

6 hamburger buns (good quality)

optional toppings

avocados

onions

tomatoes

ketchup

mustard

Directions:

1.) Heat up your coals in your little grill.  Follow the coal instructions, but mine usually recommend heating the grill about 15 minutes before cook time.

2.) While that heat up, get out a large bowl.  Mix together your hamburger meat, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and torn up basil leaves together.  After mixing together, form the meat into 6 large patties.  Hamburger meat shrinks when it cooks so don't be shy about making your meat patties extra wide. 

3.) Personally I like cooked onions and cooked tomatoes on my burgers so I would slice up the onion into thin rings (likewise with the tomato) and put in separate frying pans on the stove.  No need for oil or anything, just cook on medium until the onions are translucent with a slight singe and the tomatoes slices are a little toasted.

4.) Get your condiments and toppings ready.  Once the patties go on the grill they cook pretty fast. 

5.) Start grilling your patties. Grill for about 4 minutes and only flip once.  You should start toasting your buns about now. Right before taking the patties off the grill add a slice of cheese on them until the cheese is partially melted.

6.) My style of basil avocado cheeseburger: bottom bun > half of an avocado sliced up > a bit of ketchup > the cheeseburger patty > grilled onions > grilled tomatoes >top bun.  Done!  

Review:

Fucking amazing Memorial Day lunch.  There is truly something to be said about grilling your own cheeseburgers and adding just amount of exactly what you want, exactly how you like it to be cooked.  My boyfriend and I ate ours with greedy little fingers and happy mouths next to our smoking grill on the porch.  Excellent.