Bacon Turtle Burger

Ingredients:

Very lean beef and/or buffalo meat or any ground meat of choice (4 oz would be enough. Make
meatballs with the extra).

Andouille sausage or good ole franks (3 sausages or 5 hot dogs)

Packet of bacon or more

Cheddar cheese

Garlic cheddar cheese

1 egg white

Spices (salt, pepper, bbq sauce etc)

Ginger, cilantro, chili powder can also be great additions

Start making the bacon weave. Cut some of the fat off the outside of the bacon to make it straight.
Weave the bacon into a large square

Mix the ground meat, spices and egg white. The egg white is used to help hold things together. Make a
meat patty, put it on the weave. Cut some of the fat off the outside of the bacon to make it straight.
Place some garlic cheddar cheese on the patty. Make another meat patty and place on the cheese. And
add more Cheese ((I told you this was insane) Fold the bacon weave over it.

Cut sausages in half both length wise and cross wise. If using hot dog it may not have to be split as the
sausages are fatter than hot dogs - but way tastier. Make 3 cuts in the "feet" sausages and one cross
wise cut in the "head" sausage (so it will look like a mouth opening). Carve out a conical tail as well.
Make holes in the bacon weave, poke sausages into the body embedding them into meat by about 1".
Use extra bacon to cover the gap and bring stray ends of bacon into the weave.

Use a spatula to get it onto the pan. Put toothpicks (that have been soaking in water) into the body to
secure the sausages and keep the bacon ends secure. Use an oven thermometer and get that dial up to
beef - well! About 45 minutes at 400. Cooking time depends from oven to oven so poke the turtle and
when the juices aren't red anymore it is well done

Chef's Tip: * Cutting the excess edge fat off the bacon so it has a more regular shape helps a lot.

* Do not eat all at once. This could last you a long time.