The Food Thread - comments and recommendations

[Wheelie]

Now this... is a Cheeseburger pizza...


Homemade?

Looks great!!

[griffin]

Homemade?

Looks great!!

Yes, homemade... during a phase of creative uses for cheeseburgers.
I made a cheeseburger pizza, cheeseburger pies, battered deep-fried cheeseburgers, and cheeseburger lasagne.



I also made mini cheeseburgers... but why stop at small cheeseburgers?

[Sinnertwin]

:eek

Ho
Ly
Crap

Did that deep fried cheesburger gush oil everywhere when you bit into it?

[Mythirax]

I so want to bite into that, just a bite. Or maybe... the whole thing. Why does good have to be so bad

[griffin]

:eek

Ho
Ly
Crap

Did that deep fried cheesburger gush oil everywhere when you bit into it?

Nah. It was only in the deep fryer long enough to colour the batter.

The pies were the best though. A pie wrapped in pastry, with a big squirt of ketchup inside to keep it from drying out too much in the oven.... yum!

[Sinnertwin]

I really want a cheeseburger pie right now. Although I'd probably need a double bypass done if i just saw those bad boys in the flesh

[griffin]

I never uploaded the photos from my cheeseburger lasagne.... so here are a couple of them.

I made this three years ago, in May 2011, and took most of it to work (I certainly wasn't going to eat all that saturated fat).

Starting with a box of 31 cheeseburgers (yes, they gave them to me in a box) and assorted other ingredients, there is no lasagne pasta - the bread fills that role.



I only ended up using 20 of the cheeseburgers, so had to throw out 11 of them... okay, maybe not.

In a custom made deep foil tray, I just built up layers like a real lasagne.

The layers starting from the bottom, up to the top...
- 6 cheeseburgers
- cooked bacon
- grilled onion
- mustard
- cooked mince meat in Romana pasta sauce
- grated mozzarella cheese
- 7 cheeseburgers
- cooked mince meat in tomato pesto
- salami slices
- bechamel sauce (the white sauce in lasagne)
- grilled onion
- grated mozzarella cheese
- 7 cheeseburgers
- cooked mince meat in smokey BBQ sauce
- cooked bacon
- onion rings
- grated mozzarella cheese
(everything had to be pre-cooked, as it only goes in the oven to melt the cheese... otherwise it would take hours to cook through)









The finished beast...



And after it was cooked and cut open...


(the softdrink bottle is there for scale, because it looks smaller in photos than it did in person)

Anyone's arteries hardening just at the sight of all that?

[Paulbot]

Why do I always read these gourmet posts? Always makes me feel a little ill. Brave stomach!

[Sinnertwin]

I love the fact that you have a Diet Coke pictured next to that cardiac arrest on a plate
Awesome looking meal, though

[Trent]

Where's the pasta sheets?