Food Adventures #27: The Bacon Cheeseburger Experiment

Kids, the idea was to make Bacon Cheeseburger Wontons.   After all, I tackled Bacon Mac N'Cheese Wontons last month and had plenty of wonton wrappers left, so they had to be used sometime.  When the Missus suggested maybe mixing up some ground beef and creating bacon cheeseburger wontons- the lightbulb was officially lit and we started cooking.   What we ended up with was this:

What's this, you ask?  Well, it's ground beef, plenty of turkey bacon and about half a red onion and some tomatoes we had laying around the place too.   We browned up the beef real good and then threw in the bacon.  Once that got nice and crispy we added the onions and then the tomatoes to get one big pan of goodness going.  But then fun didn't stop there!  The Missus (she gets full credit for this awesomeness.  I was merely her sous chef this time out.) added generous helpings of ketchup, mustard and then in a stroke of genius, Sriracha sauce as well.  We got some cheese ready and prepared for wontons!

Only then we found out that our wonton wrappers had gone bad.  (We've picked up this unfortunate tendency somewhere.  We get an idea and buy way more ingredients than we need and then they end up sitting around until we attempt to do something with the aforementioned ingredients again.  And that's when we found that they've gone bad and/or mouldy.)  Happily, however, we had the perfect improvisational tool at hand and this resulted:

Wa-BAM!  Throw some shredded cheese on top and cut up some kosher dill pickles and you've got a Bacon Cheese Burger Quesadilla.  The perfect lunch (and dinner, it turns out) for anyone craving the burger flavors but who isn't ready to get out the grill just yet.  Overall:  a would-be glorious fusion experiment ultimately changed into an entirely different fusion experiment and worked out fantastically.   Bacon purists might object to the use of the turkey bacon- and I agree, you'd probably get more bacon flavor by using real bacon but the turkey bacon brought a good bacon flavor to the party.  What really pulled it together though was the perfect amount of Sriracha- just enough to give it a kick but not enough to drown you in spice.   I'd totally mix this up again- only maybe next time, I'll put it in egg rolls.