Spicy Hot Hamburgers

How hot can you eat it? Last week watching a marathon of Man v. Food, my husband decided he wanted to try one of the contests that the show's host Adam tried. The contest had Adam eating a really hot hamburger. The burger had a couple of different chilis on it, plus some hot sauces.

I couldn't find the exact recipe or even the name of the burger, but we tried to find all the ingredients we thought they put on it. Unfortunately we couldn't find the hottest chili, the ghost chili, so we didn't get a fair test. Here is the recipe anyway.

Ingredients:
2 jalepeno chili peppers
1 ghost chili pepper
Cayenne pepper sauce (to desired taste)
Habanero pepper sauce (to desired taste)
4 hamburger patties
4 slices of cheese (your choice of cheese)
4 hamburger buns
10 button mushrooms

Directions:
Grill or fry hamburgers to taste. In the meantime, saute jalepeno and ghost chillis in a frying pan until lightly browned. Place hamburger on bun top with cheese, chilis. Dash on Cayenne and Habanero pepper sauces. Place mushrooms on top and then top with bun.

In the contest Adam had to eat the whole hamburger in 15 minutes and not drink anything until 5 minutes after he was done with the food. The ghost chilis are what really makes it hot. I'll be watching to see if I can find them anywhere and try this again.

The Elvis Sandwich

Last week my husband found a blog that listed a peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich which they referred to as The Elvis sandwich. I have no idea wether Elvis really liked this sandwich at all or if some cafe just thought it was a good idea to name a sandwich after the King of Rock and Roll.

I found several references to the sandwich online. Generally this is how the recipe goes.

Ingredients:
Butter or margarine
White bread, 2 slices sandwich
Peanut butter
1/2 large, ripe banana, sliced per sandwich
Honey
3 slices of crispy cooked bacon, per sandwich

Directions:
Spread the butter/margarine on 1 side of each slice of bread. Turn over each slice and spread peanut butter. Place banana slices on top of peanut butter. Drizzle honey over bananas. Place the 3 bacon slices on top of the banana. Cover with remaining bread slices, butter-side-out.

Place sandwiches on a preheated frying pan. Flip them over when they become golden brown. This makes one sandwich, but you can make as many as you like.

Juicy Lucy or is Jucy Lucy

This past weekend watching a marathon on Man v. Food, the host Adam visited Minneapolis, Minnesota and took the Jucy Lucy/Juicy Lucy challenge. In the South area of Minneapolis there are two restaurants competing for the best specially made Jucy Lucy/Juicy Lucy cheeseburger. The two restaurants are Matt's Bar and just down the street is The 5-8 Club. The difference in the burgers is the way the two establishments spell the name and one offers more of a variety of cheese.

The burgers looked great, so we decided to try our own version of the cheese stuffed burgers.

Ingredients:
8 pre-made packaged hamburger patties
2 T. olive oil
8 slices of cheese—cut in fours (we used Monterey Pepper Jack cheese)
1/2 chopped onion
Mrs. Dash to taste (or salt and pepper your choice)
4 Hamburger buns

Directions:
Place 8 of the quarter slices of cheese and place it into the middle of 2 of the hamburger patties. Press the edges of the patties tightly together to keep the cheese inside. Do the same for three more patties to make a total of four hamburger.

Add olive oil to frying pan and heat. Add chopped onions. Place all four hamburgers into pan and cook to taste. I covered the pan to make sure that it cooked all the way through. Important to cook until the cheese melts.

Place patties in hamburger buns, top with cooked onions and add your favorite dressing i.e. catsup, mustard, mayo, pickles, etc.

Mother-In-Law Sandwich

My husband saw this blog that had some sandwiches from famous restaurants from around the country, but they didn't have any recipes so we thought we'd try to figure it out and make our own.

The Mother-In-Law Sandwich was apparently from this famous restaurant in Chicago. Here's what we came up with, but it you have another idea of what goes inside let me know.

Ingredients:
4 prepackaged frozen tamales
1 14 oz can of chili
diced onion (if desired)
shredded Mexican cheese (as desired)
4 hot dog buns

Direction:
Cook tamales as instructed on package. Meanwhile heat chili on stove. Set hot dog buns on a plate and fill with tamales, top with chili, onion and cheese. Enjoy.

My Meatball Sub Recipe

This weekend we watch a marathon of the Man v. Food television show and decided to try and make up our own versions of the food items that the host Adam got to taste test.

Here is an old fashioned meatball sub sandwich.
We cheated a little so that we wouldn't have to make a lot of food ahead of time.

Ingredients:
1 pound of ground chuck or beef (lowfat content of course)

1/2 chopped onion
1 T Italian seasoning
1 T Mrs. Dash (or salt and pepper if you prefer)
2 T olive oil
1 jar of pre-prepared tomato sauce (Classico was the kind we used)
4 large sandwich buns (we used Italian subs style)
Shredded Mozzarella cheese as desired

Directions:
In a large bowl combine ground meat, onions and seasoning. Roll meat into 1-2 inch balls. Heat olive oil in a skillet carefully add meatballs into skillet, cover and let cook for 3 to 5 minutes over medium heat. Then turn over meatballs. This time varies depending on how you like your ground beef cooked.

When meat is done add tomato sauce over top and cook for 3 more minutes.

Place opened breads on individual plates and spoon in meatballs. Top with Mozzarella cheese.