Homemade Burgers and Garlicy-Spicy Fries

Omnomnom. Tonight's dinner was so good. For the french fries I roughly followed this recipe. I used one potato and cut it into long thing strips. Tossed the potato pieces with olive oil, fresh garlic, garlic plus (club house seasoning), salt and pepper, and cayenne pepper. The fries were garlicy and spicy which was good, but I might have gone a little over board on the cayenne. My mouth burned a little at times. I put them in the microwave, like the recipe suggests, for 3 minutes and then cooked them for 30 minutes in the oven. I flipped them at 20 minutes (because I got distracted and forgot to flip them earlier). They ended up being the perfect golden brown though, so I was happy!

I didn't really measure for the burgers. I used about half of a large tray (it was on sale) of ground beef, 2 eggs, half a small onion, 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, a few squirts of Worcestershire sauce and a few squirts of ketchup. In total it made 5 burgers. I cooked it on a portable grill, but probably will do pan fry next time or borrow the neighbours bbq. I topped my burger with caramelized onions and mushrooms, tomato, lettuce, goat's cheese and a spinach/arugula-garlic mayo. The burger was on a toasted a ciabatta bun. My housemate topped her burger with caramelized mushrooms, onions and jalapeño pepper, tomato, lettuce, hotsauce and honey mustard. She quite enjoyed hers as well!