Sourcream Onion Burgers and Corn on the Cob (Recipes 17 and 18)

As soon as I said I would get better at posting pictures I immediately got worse about posting in general. Oops. However, regardless of my two week hiatus, I am back with recipes to share! This one I made the day after National Corn on the Cob day. I have never made corn on the cob, even though it is probably one of the easiest foods to cook. Simply place the cob of corn in a pot of water and boil it until perfection. (Easy, right?)

I knew I wanted to make corn, but I had to have a meal to go with the corn. And that is when I remembered a recipe I had seen on Pinterest. Sour Cream and Onion Burgers. Yum. I have been on a sour cream kick lately (just ask any of my friends). Sour cream and nutella makes a good strawberry dip. Sour cream in brownies makes them moister with a hint of cheesecakes. Sour cream makes anything taste richer. So, how could I resist making Sour Cream and Onion burgers? The answer: I couldn't.

The Recipe:

• 2 pounds Ground Beef
• 1 cup Sour Cream
• 1 (1 ounce) envelope Dry Onion Soup Mix
• 1/2 cup Bread Crumbs
• 1 Egg
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Mix it all up to perfection. And add spices you want. I tweeked this recipe a bit by adding breadcrumbs from a leftover doughnut instead of real bread crumbs. It gave the burgers a little bit of a sweet flavour as well. 

Then comes the grilling. We do not own a grill, but we do own a George Foreman grill. (Fun fact: George Foreman was a boxer... I had thought, until about a year ago, that he had only invented this handy grill. Oh, the things you learn!) 

The lovely thing about burgers is the colours that come out. There's the soft sea green of lettuce, the rich fire engine red of tomatoes, the yellow of mustard, all on a canvas of a rich dark burger. It's like looking at art. I'm so glad God didn't create food as dull and colourless. 

I served up the burgers with a side of corn on the cob (which I would post a recipe for, but literally all it is is boiling it in a pot of water) and some ranch potatoes. 

The eaters for this meal were: Megan, Faith, Greg, Janessa, Sonya, and Austin. Our air conditioning hasn't been working and our house was probably around 90ºF plus humidity. So, amidst the sweat and stickiness we enjoyed our meal. Nobody complained and it was a great Summertime meal!