theArtisticFarmer: Mock Filet Mignon

Hello, hello! I fully intended to post yesterday; although I was cooking homemade ketchup for canning and canning sweet and hot peppers, which ended up taking up the entire day!

So, today I have a Mock Filet Mignon recipe to share with you! Its actually as easy as making burgers, so enjoy!

Ingredients:

-1 1/2 lbs. ground beef {or other ground meat}

-2 cups oats {you could also use bread crumbs, crushed crackers or chips or cooked rice; I used some brown rice I had leftover from the night before}

-1 cup onion, chopped {you could also use about 1/4 cup dried, minced onion}

-1/2 tsp garlic powder

-1 tbsp worcestershire sauce

-1 1/2 tsp salt

-1/4 tsp pepper

-6 bacon slices {I'm sure you could use turkey bacon too!}

Process:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine all ingredients, except the bacon in a medium-large bowl. Mix well.

2. Flatten meat, to even out the mixed meat in the bowl. Using your hand or a spoon section the meat into 6 equal pieces.

3. Form each section into a patty.

4. Wrap a slice of bacon around each patty. {I only had 5 slices, so I wrapped 4 patties and placed half a slice on the top of the other 2 patties.}

5. Secure each piece of bacon with a toothpick. {I only had the colored toothpicks, so I ended up with tiny colored spots on the bacon; but no one even noticed.}