Can I Get Away With Calling This A Deconstructed Burger?
4 potatoes, halved and sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
1 pinch each salt, pepper, paprika, basil
1 lb ground beef
1 shallot, diced
1* clove of garlic, crushed
1 more pinch each salt and pepper
1 tomato, sliced
grated cheese to cover if you're gross and wrong enough to like cheese
In your largest frying pan, heat the olive oil over medium, then add the potatoes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and basil. Mix well, and cook for ten minutes or so, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are at your level of doneness (I like them browned and crispy). Set the whole pan aside.
In a more reasonable frying pan, break up a pound of ground beef and cook over medium heat into crumbles. When it looks like it's almost fully cooked, add the shallot, garlic (can we all agree one crushed clove of garlic isn't enough garlic for a cup of coffee?), salt, and pepper. Mix and let cook for 8 to 10 minutes, but take it off the heat if the beef looks like it's starting to dry out.
Pour the contents of the smaller pan into the larger one. Don't mix them; you want the potato slices to act a little bit like a crust, but hopefully not as dry and crispy as that implies. Cover it with grated cheese if you tolerate lactose, and top the cheese with the tomato slices. Cover the pan and return to the range over low heat for a couple of minutes until the cheese is melted.
Garnish with chives. Serve warm. Since the tomatoes are in slices, obviously you'll need a fork and knife.