Cooking is easier if everyone helps with a part of the meal. When Blake joined us at the cabin last weekend, I put him to work making tot-size burger patties, seasoned with crushed tortilla chips and taco sauce.
We put some tortilla chips in a resealable plastic bag to make crushing easier. What 3-year old doesn’t like to crush, smash and stomp things?
Then we mixed the crushed chips with taco sauce, salt, pepper and ground beef. This recipe for Grilled Taco Burgers makes good-size burgers (six 5-oz burgers) but we cut the recipe in half, using one pound of ground beef to make eight small burgers (or sliders).
Here’s a great tip: To prevent burgers of any size from shrinking too much, it’s a good idea to press your thumb in the center of each patty, to create an indentation.
When the burgers were ready to grill, Papa Jack took over.
Here are our sliders, hot off the grill.
After placing the cheese-topped burgers into small slider buns, they are garnished with shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes.
While Jack and Blake were busy "cooking", I made this Pinto Beans and Bacon side dish to go with our sliders.
