Bite Size Pieces of Amazingness!

Ok, well they are actually a little bigger than just bite size, like 4 bites maybe, but they are absolutely, amazingly wonderful.  We like burgers at our house, but we hardly every make them on the grill, unless we're having a cook out.  Ben only likes to cook with charcoal, and his grill is huge, so to just cook a couple of hamburgers and hotdogs costs too much in charcoal.  I am in search of his father's day gift that will help fix that problem.

(Photo from Pioneer Woman)

Anyways, so when I saw this recipe on Pioneer Woman, I fell in love with the easy simple deliciousness that she called Big Fat Bacon Sliders.  Who couldn't love bacon wrapped mini hamburgers?  Ok, for those of you that just raised your hand, you have NO idea what you are missing! 

I had to make a trip to Sam's last week and while I was there, I grabbed a humungo bag of wheat dinner rolls to use for our sliders.  I also got the hamburger meat, six pounds of spaghetti noodles (we like our pasta), two jars of sauce, 222 Pampers size 3 diapers (Easton Wayne you better not grow out of size 3 dipaers until every last one is gone!), 2 dresses, 2 three piece outfits, strawberries, grapes, and a partridge in a pear tree...just kidding about the partridge and pear tree.  I love Sam's.  It's a store full of amazingness.  Where else can you go to buy a box of 6 pounds of spaghetti and at the end of the aisle find the cutest Carter clothes for your kids?  I get in trouble when I go to Sam's.  I buy entirely too much stuff and then, when we get home, have absolutely no where to put it.  Wonder if I could sneak it into Ben's closet without him knowing?  Hum....

Anyways, back to the recipe.  I got everything I needed at Sam's except for the bacon.  I figured I'd have to make a trip to our local hometown grocery store before I cooked the sliders, so I'd get it then.  Well, I didn't go, so mine were baconless.

Oh, tear, this made me sad.  Oh well, they were still yummy with the sauteed onions and mushrooms I added.  I did it a little different than her recipe, but for Ree's version you can go here.  I put my hamburger meat in a bowl, added my seasoning, made small round balls and flattened them slightly.  I used a broiler pan and baked them in the oven for 25-30 minutes.  We put BBQ sauce on some and left the others plain.  I used provolone cheese and the mini wheat dinner rolls.  It was pretty quick from start to finish getting them ready.

We're going to be grilling out tonight and having a small bonfire to make smores with some friends.  Kinnley is having a hard time waiting until it gets dark to start the fire.  Ben and a couple of his friends went and took down the pool at my parent's house to move to our house today, so we should be ready to swim by next weekend.  We hope!  I have cleaned 3/4 of the house from floor to ceiling today, so now I have to finish the rest and then start laundry.  I've got to get it all done today so I can sit on my toosh all day tomorrow, guilt-free.

Hope everybody is having a great weekend!
Caramie