So I'm not very good at keeping up with this blog :-/ But a very blog worthy post, I think, is that last night I made dinner with NO RECIPE and it was super delicious. So, naturally, I want to brag...and share!
We had company this past weekend and we intended on grilling hamburgers (gotta love that its still warm enough to grill here!) one day. We also were going to have bacon for breakfast one day. Neither happened so I had these items in my fridge. I was trying to think of a way to use them in a casserole or soup of some kind. I wasn't sure exactly how to...and of course we could have had bacon cheeseburgers but it is getting a tad chilly out (50's is chilly to me lol), so I wanted some soup! So...I started throwing stuff together and made what I will call Cheesy Bacon Cheeseburger Soup. Again. Great reviews from the hubs, which is always a good sign!
Cheesy Bacon Cheeseburger Soup
1 lb hamburger meat, fully cooked
7-8 strips bacon, cooked and chopped up into small pieces (I used hickory smoked)
1 small onion, or half a large onion
1 medium tomato
1 cup cheddar cheese
1 (10z) cheddar cheese soup mix + one can milk
3 additional cups milk (I used 1% because that's what we had on hand)
2T flour (for thickening)
salt and pepper to taste
pinch garlic
1.) Cook hamburger meat and add onions until meat is fully cooked. Set aside.
2.) In a large pot, dump can of cheddar cheese soup mix + one can of milk + 3 additional cups of milk. Turn heat on medium/low.
3.) When mixture starts to heat up, add salt and pepper, and flour
4.) Keep stirring (don't let the milk burn!!) the mixture until it starts to bubble at sides
5.) Dump in hamburger, bacon, pinch garlic, and cut up tomato
6.) Stir in cheddar cheese until melted
7.) Enjoy!
You could add less meat if you wanted. I have a carnivore at home so I added the full lb of hamburger meat. You could also use ground turkey to be a little healthier! There are a lot of ways to tweak this recipe...but it was really good :-)
