Ground Chicken

Wow! Is this one a looker!

If you have a mini meatball in your house (or you’re just a kid at heart) this one will feed you well, stomach and soul!

Wade, my good friend and coworker for many years, joined me at a fancy restaurant in Las Vegas in honor of our friend Lucky’s birthday. He saw me cringe as he politely asked our server to request that the chef prepare a “Chicken Caesar” for him. The broad menu of culinary creations just struck him as too complicated for a late-night-following-a-long-workday meal. I rolled my eyes and the server gave a bit of a twitch. In hindsight, I have rarely been so ashamed of my own behavior: me, an Upstate New York blue-collar girl, suddenly acting too haughty to even sit with someone who would request a Chicken Caesar outside of a highway pit stop. Chef Eric Klein at SW at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel made Wade a fabulous free-range roast chicken Caesar salad. Eric was neither shocked nor insulted by the simple request. Instead, he made a humble visit to the table to remind us all of the Golden Rule of food: the customer is always right. Wade, this burger is for you. Viva Chicken Caesar!

Here’s an easy B, L, or D (breakfast, lunch, or dinner) that you won’t find on any take-out or diner menu!

Serve these with olive oil and herb potato chips, available on the snack aisle of the market.

Serve with chopped raw vegetable salad and fancy store-bought chips of choice.

Serve with waffle-cut frozen fries, cooked to package directions, or fancy specialty chips.

If you make a double batch of chimichurri sauce one night you can make these burgers in a flash the next!

Have one of each! Serve with spicy refried beans.