Copycat White Castle Sliders

Harold & Kumar were onto something with the White Castle Sliders, but instead of the journey they took, you can just make them at home!

I have posted a copycat recipe of this particular food before, however, the recipe/method were completely different. This one is based more on how White Castle actually makes their sliders. I have never been to White Castle. The South has Krystals which I've heard isn't as good, but works. I personally don't like Krystals at all. My husband, Nick, on the other hand, loves both of them a lot. I made this recipe for him. I used Andrew Rea's recipe from his show Binging with Babish - if you haven't heard of him, I highly recommend. He is absolutely fabulous. I really enjoyed this recipe, so maybe I'd be a White Castle fan - who knows!? :)

Copycat Maggie's Pizza Burgers

Pizza and burgers together are a great combination - in addition to pizza toppings, this burger has fried mozzarella half moons too!

Occasionally, Nick will request we make a food he has eaten somewhere. It took forever, but we finally got around to making a copycat for a burger he had at a restaurant in upstate New York where we lived for 7 years. I had never been to the restaurant. I want to say he went for someone's retirement or promotion or PCS or something. I'm not sure. The problem is that when he told me how to make it, he didn't tel me the precise order of ingredients. So my pictures don't match what it should be in its final form. Also, my provolone had molded, so no provolone here. Follow the directions below and eventually I will get more accurate pictures of this fantastic burger!

Latin Burgers

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Steak 'n Shake Garlic Double Steakburgers

Garlic it up with these copycat double burgers that you can make at home!

I must admit that I have only had Steak 'n Shake a couple of times. I had never really heard anything good about them. I did try a local one, but then stopped because apparently they had served undercooked chicken tenders and then refused to refund the meal. I rather like making copycat recipes at home. They tend to be way better than what comes at the fast food place and so here I am making a copycat of something I have not tried at the restaurant. And you don't have to ask me twice about making a recipe that has garlic in the title! We were in love with these burgers - so garlicky!

Garlic Burgers

When you love garlic...really really love garlic, you make these very garlicky burgers because they are awesome!

The original Garlic Burgers recipe is actually a copycat recipe. However, I did not make it in the exact same way, so I will not claim it to be a copycat. The original is two quarter pound patties on French bread. I could not tell you why I chose to not make it the same way, but that's how it happened. Still, the garlickness of this recipe was really good. I was a little skeptical of so much garlic powder, but it works. It really works.

Bacon Cheeseburgers with Spicy Mayo

A classic bacon cheeseburger topped with a kicker - spicy sriracha mayonnaise!

We eat cheeseburgers about every other week for the most part. I love burgers and like to make different variations. Honestly, this one is nothing too crazy. It's kind of just your basic bacon cheeseburger but the spicy mayonnaise is key. It's nothing too hard or crazy either, but the mayo, ketchup, and sriracha combined are the perfect condiment for this burger or really any burger.

Taco Burgers

Burgers with green chillies cooked into the beef patties and topped with a creamy taco sauce and avocado!

We've had a lot of burgers with taco toppings lately and have been eating a lot of queso burgers when we go out to eat too. Chili's and Applebee's have good queso burgers. This Taco Burger is fairly simple but has a lot of wonderful flavors that work together so well. The ground beef is mixed with green chillies, taco seasoning, and onions.  There is taco sauce that goes on top and don't forget the avocado!!

Grilled Butter Burgers #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

This month's Fantastical Food Fight theme is BURGERS. It's perfect timing to start sharing all the grilling recipes because summer is upon us! May is National Hamburger Month and I thought burgers were really the best route for a theme for May.

Today I have these fabulous grilled butter burgers to share with y'all. I didn't realize how much difference a pat of garlic herb butter would make in a burger but I can't imagine them any other way now! I am really particular with my burgers nowadays. I don't like multiple meat or crazy seasonings. I just like 80/20 beef and salt and pepper. I let the toppings do the work. These burgers were a huge hit in my household and made the favorite list for everyone (except for Mason who doesn't eat non-beige foods really -_-). 

Argentinean Burgers

These hearty burgers are topped with sharp cheese and fresh, homemade chimichurri sauce!

We are relatively new to chimichurri but it's definitely up there with pesto for sauces we love. Chimichurri is a parsley-based sauce that originated in Argentina and Uruguay. I was definitely drawn to this burger in the Bobby Flay cookbook I have because it's a very simple burger, but the homemade chimichurri is on top and I knew that would make this a killer recipe. I was unable to find Manchego cheese but any sharp white cheese will work well as a substitute.

Copycat Big Mac

Is there anything more iconic than a Big Mac? This recipe is the perfect copycat to the McDonald's staple menu item.

At this point, I'm not sure anyone would be surprised that I have another copycat recipe to share. I adore copycat recipes and will continue to find new ones to make. In fact, I definitely think 2019 needs to be another year for me to create my own and I 100% have quite a few in mind that I would like to recreate. However, I adore finding ones from my blogging friends too and this Copycat Big Mac recipe is definitely a keeper. It's a really easy recipe to make and doesn't really have too many more steps than a regular ole burger. So why not have it instead of a regular burger? The sauce is iconic and this one does taste nearly identical and has all the right elements, in my opinion. I love that the buns are toasted and the burger patties are really thin. All-in-all, it is definitely a winner in my book!

Steak 'n Shake Frisco Patty Melts

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Fried Pickle Burgers

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Cowboy Tumbleweed Burgers

Burgers made from beef and chorizo topped with caramelized onions, bacon, and spicy jalapenos!

I was totally on board when I saw this burger had jalapenos and bacon. I was even more on board when I found out that it was a mix of beef and chorizo. I was literally the board when I found out it had caramelized onions - haha! This burger has all sorts of good toppings to go with an excellent combination of traditional beef and spicy chorizo. I loaded mine up with jalapenos and caramelized onions and it was just plain good. I know that's not a particularly strong descriptive word, but sometimes that's just the best way to say it. Good.

Enchilada Burgers #SundaySupper

The best way to glam up a regular burger is to add enchilada fixings to it!

Today's Sunday Supper event theme is DINNER IDEAS USING GROUND BEEF. I immediately chose to share a burger. Burgers are one of my favorite things to make with ground beef and, in my opinion, one of the easiest and most versatile things to make with ground beef. I do not like to season ground beef with anything except a little salt and pepper for my burgers. As much as I love garlic, the second garlic touches the ground beef for a burger, I'm out. For me, it's all about the toppings to add more flavors to a burger.

These Enchilada Burgers are great because you can basically add any toppings that you would normally add to enchiladas or tacos. You can buy premade toppings (like pico de gallo, guacamole, enchilada sauce) or you can make your favorite recipe. So this burger can be "gourmet" or a quick, easy meal. It's really up to you and how much time you have on your hands.

French Onion Burgers

This gourmet burger has sauteed leeks, crispy fried onions, and a thick slice of Gruyere on top!

I was a little skeptical of this recipe because I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of French onion soup. However, I didn't see anything in the ingredients lists that made me bat an eye. I did have to look up what the heck a cornichon was because I had no idea - it's a French pickle. Thankfully, my grocery store had them in the little international food section (with the German foods).

This burger is seriously such a gourmet recipe. The "fry sauce" with cornichon was great. The sauteed leeks are one of my favorite burger toppings of all time. And the gruyere and crispy onions MAKE. THE. BURGER. All these components together almost pushed this burger into my favorite burger of all-time. Almost. It is my number two favorite burger and that's saying something...because I have made a ton of burgers I really love.

Cheesy Cheeseburgers #SundaySupper

These burgers are not only topped with cheese, but have an ooey gooey cheesy center with a bit of a kick!

It's been a little while since I joined in for Sunday Supper Movement but I'm back today for the CHEESY DINNER IDEAS event. My family isn't too picky when it comes to cheese - as long as it isn't Swiss or Blue cheese, we'll eat it. I'm looking forward to all of the cheesy dinner recipes my fellow food bloggers share today and I am excited to share this recipe with y'all!

I have never been very skilled with making stuffed burgers or really burgers with any kind of ingredients mixed in. I somehow always mess them up. My burgers stick and fall apart. So I was very nervous to make these, even though the filling is just cheese. After testing this recipe, I found that a rectangle of cheese works better than a cube for the patties to cook more evenly and to lose less cheese in the middle. They turned out perfectly and eased my weariness toward stuffed burgers. I am definitely ready to try more recipes out, so if you have a favorite, please leave me a link below!

We loved having a bite of gooey spicy cheese in addition to all the traditional burger fixings. I tend to stick to having simple burgers and the toppings do the talking, so it was a nice twist to finally have a stuffed burger turn out well :)

Italian Pizza Burgers

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2 AM Breakfast Burgers

When you can't choose between breakfast and a burger - have both!

I recently made an copycat burger that has breakfast foods on it, but to be honest, if you don't want to mess with shredded hashbrowns than this is definitely the way to go. I personally like this method better because I am literally the worst at cooking shredded hashbrowns. It's just one of those things I have never been able to master. But you know what? That is totally fine by me when I can bake up some of these hashbrown squares and throw it on the bottom bun, no fuss!

Copycat Applebee's All-In Brunch Burgers #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

November's theme is FAST FOOD COPYCATS and I could not be more ready to see what my fellow food fighters have in store for today's theme. I personally consider a lot of restaurants fast food even though they may not be fast. So my copycat for today is a burger I've always wanted to get at Applebee's, but never do. I am a creature of habit and cannot NOT get my favorite: the quesadilla burger! I need to make a copycat for it soon, but I had to make this All-In Brunch Burger first.

I believe the onion and bacon is cooked into the burger patty, but I don't like that. I find that just means my burgers aren't going to cook as well because they'll be sticking to the pan and then the onions won't be cooked uniformly. So I chose to cook the onions with the hashbrowns and the bacon by itself. I also am unsure if you get a choice in whether your egg yolk is hard or overeasy. No one in my household likes overeasy (except me on the rare occasion), so I just did our eggs cooked all the way through. These were an absolutely magnificent burger. Matthew and Cami both claimed that it had definitely hit top 5 for them and Nick also claimed it was one of the best burgers he had ever eaten. I thought it was pretty freaking fantastic too.

Barnyard Burgers

There's a little bit of everything from the barn on this burger!

I'm so late to posting today and I apologize. I've been participating in a readathon (I'm a huge bookworm) and instead of blogging, I've been reading. A lot. I just finished my 3rd book for the past 5 days. Today's recipe is awesome. This burger takes a little bit of everything on the farm and sticks it on a hamburger bun. You have a little cow, pig, and chicken (egg) in there. I noted how it could also be made to include lamb and goat. At the time, I had no clue we even had lamb at the local grocery store. I love a burger with a fried egg and bacon, so I absolutely loved this one!