Burger night: fried eggs, aioli

I was craving a burger today, and since we had a laid-back night, we decided to draw inspiration from a few of the fancier burger places in the city. (Notably, at J. Wellington's, we really enjoy a burger with a fried egg and blue-cheese-aioli sauce. It's so good that Oscar loves it, even though he hates blue cheese.)

Oscar's burger awaits its fate.

We seasoned ground beef and patted out burgers and tossed them on my cast-iron grill pan. I cracked eggs into a separate pan and fried them with butter. Oscar sliced some onion into rings, and I wedged the onions into the spaces between the burgers on the grill pan. We had leftover aioli from when I made tapas a few weeks ago.

The partially-eaten burger.

When the burgers were almost cooked, I put cheddar on top of them, then took the whole cast-iron grill pan and stuck it under the broiler to melt the cheese. (This is one more reason why cast iron is great--don't ever try this with teflon.) We tossed the buns under the broiler for about a minute to toast them, too. Then we topped each burger with a fried egg, grilled onion, and aioli sauce.

This is aioli suace--it's basically mayonnaise with garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Very tasty!

These burgers were absolutely great. We're definitely going to have more fancy burger nights in the future.