When you said tulips...: Homemade Big Mac

I actually love McDonald's. Although I do agree that their food tastes mass-produced and has a weird aftertaste, I love their Big Mac and their regular hamburgers. Since we moved, the nearest McDonald's is about a 15-minute drive away, which is further than we're willing to go for, well, unhealthy food. Still, for the past few days, I've been craaaaaving a Big Mac. So we made some ourselves. Tadaaaa!

First, we made the sauce. We didn't have onion powder and the yellow stuff on the right was the closest thing to sweet pickle relish we could find.

Still, once mixed, it tasted like the Big Mac sauce to us. Only healthier. As healthy as 1 cup + 4 tbsp of mayonnaise can be.

Klaas chopped up some iceberg lettuce...

... and put some onions in the blender. They were mushy and looked more like rice, but whatever!

Then, we MADE our own patties. Which turned out to be no big deal. I always thought it would be a complicated process, but no. All you have to do is make a ball, a bit larger than a golf ball, and then flatten it out.

We made Big Mac buns by slicing two buns in half. The bottom of one bun was then cut in half again. The top half makes the middle part of the first bun. Confused? You shouldn't be. We thought this tutorial was very helpful. We followed the recipe each step of the way.

Then we cooked the patties, put sauce, onions and lettuce on the bottom of the bun, added a pattie topped with some cheese, put the middle part of the bun on that, added another layer of sauce, onions and lettuce and then topped that with the second pattie, some pickles and the top of the bun.

A close-up of all that glorious goodness.

When we were out shopping for Big Mac sauce ingredients, we decided to go all out and have a somewhat fancy dessert as well. Two scoops of vanilla ice cream sprinkled with chocolate drops and some chocolate mousse topped with white chocolate sprinkles did the trick. Of course we used our golden spoons to dig in.