The squashburglar!

We got home from the gym around 7:30 and I was absolutely starving. There was no way I was cooking anything extravagant so this is what it ended up being:

Ingredients: 

4 oz 20% fat ground beef

1 tomato

1 yellow summer squash

4 pieces dinosaur kale 

A little less than 1 oz crumbled blue cheese 

1 cheddar hamburger bun

Franks red hot sauce 

Heinz ketchup 

1 teaspoon coconut oil 

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce 

Garlic salt

Ground red pepper 

How to get it done: so the ingredients are for one burger, we made 4 originally, but I'll explain it for one serving. First, take the raw meat and mix it with the worcestershire sauce, hot sauce and garlic salt to taste. Form patties. Slice the squash into two slices and sauté with coconut oil, garlic salt and red pepper over a medium-high heat. When it is just about done (soft inside but crisp outside), put the buns in the toaster oven on medium and put the meat on the same pan. Cook burgers 3-5 minutes each side depending on your preference (OR based on your primal instincts, according to josh). Add the kale (separated from the stalks) to the pan to sauté it about 2 mins and add the blue cheese on top of the burger to melt. When the burger is done, layer ingredients on the bun and add some hot sauce and ketchup. Voila, deliciousness! 

Of course this could have been way healthier.  Use ground turkey instead of beef, or use a leaner ground beef.  The meat was left over from a BBQ we had a ways back though, so I took what I could get.  I'm also a big proponent of eating real food, so no low fat cheese or bread for this gal. But according to my estimations, and a little help from MyFitnessPal, this burger was 581 calories. A little out of my typical calorie meal range, but hell, it was delicious and I had a good workout!

PS: We had frozen watermelon for dessert and it was awesome.