Battle Royale... with cheese!

It's been a while since we've gotten the battle crew together, so it was about time so something about that.  We had Nick and Sommer over for our latest showdown:  Battle Royale... with cheese!  Initially this was supposed to be a burger battle with boca or salmon burgers, but in the end it turned into a salmon burger dinner with fun condiments to choose from, a side of fries and cheesecake for dessert.  We don't really select a winner at these battles, so we just made this one especially informal.  

Before getting started we had to take a picture of all things that were cool (besides the 4 of us of course). This included all 4 of our iPhones (it may become a requirement for future battle inductees to posses one of their own, we haven't decided yet...).  Coolness, apparently, also included cold brewskis (ignore the bread that made it into the shot please), but most obviously included the new Blue Box Heat that Nick had only just recently acquired after a shoe trade.  We would have taken a picture of the shoes themselves, but they are too cool for this blog...

Time to get the grillin' goin'!  Salmon burgers with melted pepper jack cheese!

Condiment selection included fresh and thinly sliced organic heirloom tomato, avocado, onion, sriracha sauce, mayo, ranch, amy's secret sauce, ketchup and best of all... fire roasted and skinned poblano peppers!

Delicious burgers were had by all and accompanied by french fries with sea and seasoned salt.  For dessert, Sommer prepared a mascarpone cheesecake with ginger crust, garnished with fresh raspberries - all gluten free and delicious too!

Mmmm, cheesecake!  And so pretty!  It almost made up for the fact that Sommer shouldn't be trusted with knives and dropped our chefs knife on the floor... bad for both the knife and the floor, but thankfully missed Anthony's toe by just enough...  Sommer, you're officially banned from knife use in the Benezra household...

We all enjoyed our meal and had a great time.  Here you can see Nick as evidence to that fact... Anthony took pictures of the rest of us too... but they weren't blog approved (faces full of food, etc.)

Can't wait for next time!  Mmmm, what should we eat... I mean battle with next!!??