Huh? That picture is too little to see. What is it?

Will you be serving cold? Cook and heat on site? Carry in a hot box...but is that make ahead?

I'm lost...

ETA--Or, did you mean prep ahead and cook on site?

Quick directions: season your beef and press it into a raw flour tortilla, top with cheese or bacon, and roll tight. Slice into 1.5-inch wheels, thread onto skewers, and grill over medium-high heat until the tortilla is crispy and the beef is cooked through.

Oh! Like the cream cheese and smoked turkey pinwheels of the '80's but cheeseburgerr style. Doesn't the cheese leak out? It sounds fun for the 4th, like a burger sparkler.

On some cooking comptition on TV recently, someone squished ground meat onto a tortilla like that, added toppings, cooked in a frying pan, I think, with cheese on the bottom, folded it in half and called it a quesadilla burger or somethng similar. That's three; I guess tortilla burgers are the new "thing"? So, you'll make at home and serve cool? Or grill on stie?

Grilling here at home. Colorado wildfires are blazing! Smoke fills the air...ALL fireworks have been cancelled....but our home has a clean air filtration system...we're fine. Honeysuckle vines are in bloom and smell AMAZING!

I posted the taco version of the tortilla creation. :0) We just made a quick grocery store run and stocked up on tortillas and ground turkey! I have a loaf of home made bread baking for smoked turkey sandwiches later on this weekend.

Ah. I was stuck on the hypothetical potluck. Your taco link was what I was referring to. And then there's the Bundt. ;)

I only have good air filters. I'd be scared to have a full on clean air system, like my friends had, because I'd never be able to leave the house after that! But so glad you have it against the fires and the other things notoriously in CO air!

I hope your holiday is as fun as the food!

How are these ”smashburgers”? I thought smashburgers were smashed very flat and thin so they cooked quickly.

In summer fire season here we have fire bans which means no wood or coal fired grills, no campfires, no machinery which might cause a spark, no farm machinery driven across dry paddocks etc.

I used to clean a skydiving facility which only operated on weekends for the most part. I would go in on Monday and clean, often on my own. One hot day the idiot groundskeeper decided to zoom around the upper paddock on a ride on mower, then left. Shortly afterward I heard a weird, whooshing and crackling sound, which (as it turned out, correctly) I suspected was a grass fire coming. I quickly called our (volunteer) fire brigade, which came out in a hurry as the land the building was on bordered the (very low in summer) river, and once the fire got to the river reserve it would shoot along the dense bush on the banks where it would be very difficult to get to and fight.

Have a great 4th of July everyone!

Great new pictures. Now I get it!

I'd much rather have a good burger.

Well...since we eliminated beef from our diet a "good" burger isn't possible anymore. I need to get creative OR we just keep eating out. 🍔

@colleenoz...It's what they were called on the recipe site....Smashburgers. The raw meat is smashed onto the tortilla....🤩....not a copyright infringement. 🤩I would have called them "Pinwheel burgers".

note: I'm overeating. I need to cut what I'm eating in half. Eating at home I can easily manage a little weight loss. I'm someone who copies OTHER peoples clever ideas.

"...since we eliminated beef from our diet a "good" burger isn't possible anymore. I need to get creative OR we just keep eating out."

I am curious -- why did you eliminate beef? (no judgement, just curiosity)

ETA: But wait a minute -- the recipe has beef in it. So your statement doesn't make sense. ?

They look awkward to eat. Do you have to sit down with a life and fork? I would have thought if you tried to eat them like a burger with your hands they'd fall apart. The same thought occurred to me with the bundt tacos. You couldn't eat it with your hands like a taco.

Beef is a red meat high in saturated fat so eating less of it is not a bad idea. We rarely eat it although we haven't eliminated it completely.

I'm not grasping the appeal, beyond the visual. I would prefer a burrito, baked chimichanga style if tortilla crunch is desired, or a regular grilled cheeseburger. I imagine the interior of the rollups become soggy tortilla, unbrowned ground beef and limp bacon with an overcooked tortilla exterior. And then I'd have to clean the dripped cheese from the grill interior. That is how I imagine it going anyway!

Are you intending to use a beef substitute or ground something else for the recipe? I, too, wondered about your no beef comment.

@Gyr...I was going to use ground turkey with Mexican seasonings instead of beef. Then put a sheet of foil under it when grilling for easy clean up. It's just something different.

It does look interesting, although I'm also wondering how I'd ever get the middle cooked without charring the outside. Never mind, everything I make on the grill is raw in the middle and charred on the outside, so it would be fine, LOL.

I made some "smashed tacos" with corn tortillas and ground sausage, I used chicken sausage that I made with some of our chicken. Smeared on a light layer, flipped it onto the griddle meat side down. When the meat was nearly done I flipped it over to brown the tortilla, folded it in half and filled it with scrambled eggs , some cheese and a dollop of salsa. Voila! A breakfast taco. The grandkids loved them and they were easy to eat on their way to softball practice.

Annie

Anything that looks "different" or has a cute look to it...a pinwheel for instance...seems to go over well at potlucks...everyone wants to try somethng NEW! And...we like trying out new things too...any excuse to use the grill and be outdoors!

NiCOZ5, I agree regarding simple or cute.

Agreed about the potlucks. Things with handles go over well on buffets, too.

Did you get a chance to try the pinwheels?

Not yet...Super busy. The minute the NEW renters moved in....the garbage disposal seal started leaking under the sink......We were at the house for a month everything worked fine. DH ran over, put a whole NEW one in! They have 2 cats instead of the ONE they claimed. 😁 ....a sprinkler head isn't popping up....whole section of lawn looks dead....need to make a 2nd trip to fix that...DH didn't bring any sprinkler parts with him....

Cats fell asleep in the Lazy-Boy club chair upstairs...we left them...so cute....then @ 1:44AM They were yelling and walking ALL over us because they missed their wet dinner and wanted fed...NOW! Then 4:15AM....more yelling and walking on us...more wet food....5:15AM....wanted brushed.....we are sleep deprived.....zombies....😁

All that with the tenants sounds normal. Bad luck, but that's the landlord game. Maybe next time, for your own cats, you do the waking up of them?

Get some sleep!