This is a signature dish in Rochester, NY. It was created by Alex Tahou. Customers go to Alex's restaurant and jokingly ask for "that plate with all the garbage on it. Hence, the name Garbage Plate stuck.

Ingredients

2 cheeseburgers
2 hot dogs
Home fries
Macaroni salad
Rochester hot meat sauce
Yellow mustard
Raw chopped onions
Soft white bread with butter

1. Prepare the Hot Meat Sauce.

Brown 1 lb ground beef until fine and crumbly.
Add:
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup water
Simmer 45 60 minutes until thick and spoonable.

2. Cook your burgers (smash-style, thin, crisp edges) and hot dogs (grill or pan-sear until blistered0.

3. Prepare your sides

Home fries: diced potatoes fried in oil + paprika + salt.
Mac salad: elbow macaroni + mayo + vinegar + celery salt + pepper.

4. Preparing the Dish

a. Place a scoops of home fries and a scoop of mac salad on your plate.
b. Place your burgers and hot dogs on top of the scoops.
c. Add mustard.
d. Add onions.
e. Smother the whole thing in hot meat sauce.
f. Serve with **buttered bread** on the side.

Important!

Do not be neat. A Garbage Plate is meant to **mix**, **melt**, and **collapse** into itself. The magic is in the messy cross-contamination.