A Perfect Burger

The perfect Paleo burger...We are a grilling family, like a year round grilling family. We have graciously been given our last two grills by my parents for gifts, but we haven't always taken the best care of them and a few weeks ago our last one finally bit the dust. So, when I was at work the hubby was charged with the task of going to "look" at grills. Apparently in our man vs. woman communicating styles what I thought meant just looking at a grill actually meant buying one and putting it together before I got home. Now, he wasn't completely on his own...I did get multiple pictures of two adorable kids in front of various grills with varying price points at lots of different places. But when I did get home the next morning the grill was shining in all it's glory on our newly remodeled and stained deck and I have to admit I couldn't wait to fire it up!!! Even the kids wanted him to fix their eggs on the little side burner thing for breakfast!!

All of this new grill talk leads me to one of my most favoritest meals....a burger, that's right...grass fed beef with a little shake of homemade onion soup mix and grilled to medium-rare, juicy perfection! This night I decided to fancy things up a bit!! I cooked some bacon and then sauteed the mushrooms and onions in the left over bacon grease...whew, that was magical all by itself. I couldn't stop eating those little morsels of goodness!! I sliced up what was left of the fresh bright red tomatoes, dropped a glob of guacamole on top and then wrapped it all in lettuce. In all honesty, I think the lettuce is just and extra messy way to eat it. I don't think it's that amazing and I'll probably just cut it up and eat it with a fork next time. We threw on some adobo spiced sweet potato chips and called it good.

As a side note, I'm four days into my October Whole30 so I'll be throwing some Whole30 approved meals out there over the next few weeks too!