Bull's-Eye Onion Burgers

I’m constantly scouring the internet for recipes to add to my collection. Yesterday was no different, with my wife going grocery shopping for the week before I got home from work I quickly did a search for “cheap healthy meals.” After some sifting through various sites I came across www.hearthealthyonline.com and a list of 20 Cheap Heart-Healthy Dinners Under $3. Included in that list was a recipe for Bull’s-Eye Onion Burgers and I thought I would give it a go.

There is nearly always a story to triumph over adversity when I cook and last night was no different. It was a very good thing that the recipe was simple and I had read over it enough times to remember it. My wife, who had just returned from the grocery store a few minutes before I got home was attempting to make a bottle to feed our 4-month-old baby girl when she asked me to help her and apologized for my recipes. I didn’t think anything of it grabbed the bottle, tightened up the bottom of the bottle to stop the water from spilling out … then I went back to my recipe. It was then it occurred to me why she apologized. With all the groceries still on the counter, the only space available to make the bottle was the small space I had cleared to set my recipe down. Since the bottle leaked (which was totally not her fault) all the ink on the page had turned to a nice blur with about a dozen sporadic words that could be made out.

I kept plugging along and soon it was time to eat. What I made was slightly modified because I chose not to use the Kale leaves, we used slices of French bread rather than the Texas toast, and we also used ground turkey instead of ground beef. Served with a side of Chipotle Sweet Potato Fries that we got in the freezer section at Walmart, we had ourselves a pretty nice meal.

The meat was a little dry and that could be caused by several different factors. I think I will use the beef next time and see if that is any better.

The best part, aside from having dinner at home with my wife and daughter rather than going out to eat, was the fact that there was some left over to take for lunch. Basically for less than $12, we got dinner and lunch for my wife and me.