Ooohhh Baby...Burgers
Sliders - Bambinos - Burger Shots - Mini Burgers! Call 'em what you will - everyone gobbles 'em up!

2 lbs ground beef
16 oz shredded cheddar cheese
2 tbsp mayonnaise
1 pkg (1 oz envelope) onion soup mix
2 pakages of dinner rolls (total 24 rolls) - split
Serve with Thousand Island dressing**

Preheat oven to 350. Mix beef, cheese, mayo and onion soup mix. I divide the meat in portions, so I can make exactly 24 patties (all the same size). You want the patties to be larger than the buns - because it will shrink. Make them thin hanging over the edges. If the rolls came in a foil pan - put them back in the pan and cover tightly with foil. Otherwise, I use 2 - 13 x 9 pans (12 in each), cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes. It's ok if the burgers (meat) touches each other in the pan if you do this right, they will "shrink to fit." I like to put them on a large plate right away. - it helps them from being too greasy. Mmmm delicious!

**don't have any Thousand? Mix mayonaise, catsup, and pickle relish to the right color - whoola! (shown in picture).

Onion Rings
2 - 3 large onions, sliced in 3/4" slices - push apart to make rings
1 can evaporated milk

(Mix the following 4 ingredients on a plate or pie pan)
1 1/2 cups flour
salt & pepper
1 tbsp paprika
pinch of cayenne pepper

vegetable oil to fry, I use a large skillet (or fryer if you have one) on top of the stove and keep the heat on medium to medium high.

Heat about 2" oil in largeskilled. Dip onion rings in the canned milk, dredge in flour mixture than drop in hot oil. You need enough oil to cover the onion rings, leave them alone (don't flip). They fry about 15 minutes; drain on paper towels .Keep them warm in the oven as you fry the rest in batches - adding more oil as needed.

(Baked Onion Rings recipe coming soon!)

Potato Chip Chicken (shown as baked tenders in photo)

This is the only fried chicken recipe you ever need to know. You can fry it or bake it. This is the recipe the tall man's grandma made - always a whole cut up chicken and always fried in an electric fry pan!

4 lbs of chicken - any kind works (boneless skinless or with skin)
3 beaten eggs in a bowl big enough to dip chicken into
1 to 2 large bags of potato chips

(I put the flour and potato chips on a paper plate if I have them, for ease of clean up)

Crush the potato tips. You can crush them in the bag, the more finely crushed the better. It's even really great to whirl in your food processor - if you want to bother.

Set up an assembly line for dipping of flour, egg, potato chips (in that order).

Place on baking sheet. Bake at 350 for:
Chicken tenders, 45mins-60mins
bone in skin on chicken 60mins-75mins

This makes the best bone in skin on oven fried chicken.

You can also fry on the stove top if you like it that way. I sometimes use boneless chicken breasts, cut in half (at least), fry on top of the stove 7 to 8 minutes per side, then finish off in the oven about 30 minutes. Skin on chicken tastes fried baked, so I only bake that style (no need to fry)!