Goat Cheese Hamburger with Cherry Sauce

Welcome to Tara's Kitchen Adventures blog!  This is my first foodie blog post.  I have blogged before  - about my time living in Ireland http://tarasirishadventure.blogspot.com/ and during my Mom's recovery from a traumatic brain injury http://taniarexroth.blogspot.com/ 

This blog is just for food!  I enjoy creating new recipes, adapting recipes I find and sometimes simply enjoying a tried and true recipe.  In this case I adapted a recipe from FoodNetwork's Michael Chiarello for a 3 pound buger.  Here is a link - click here

I absolutely do not need a 3 pound burger so here is my 1/3 pound version for 1 person:
Ingredients

For the hamburger:
1/3 pound ground beef
1 oz soft goat cheese
Fresh Bread for the bun - I used sourdough from a local bakery

For the cherry sauce:
1/2 cup bing cherries (cut in half with pits removed)
1/2 T butter
1 tsp. dried shallots
1 T. white balsamic
1 tsp. brown sugar

Make 2 flat patties out of the ground beef.  Spread the 1 oz goat cheese in the middle of one patty, add the other patty on top and press together the edges.  Cook the hamburger on the grill to your prefered temperature.

In a saucepan melt the butter, add the dried shallots until they turn golden and then add the white balsamic and brown sugar.  Once it is all combined, add the cherries until they are softened and the sauce is a beautiful cherry color (about 2 min).  Now it is time to build your burger.  Put half the cherry sauce on the bottom of your bun add the burger and then top with the other half of the cherry sauce and the top of your bun.  Enjoy!