Bacon cheeseburgers meets meatballs

One night right before dinner, my then-9-year-old son, Liam, announced that he had invented a recipe. Bacon cheeseburger balls was exactly what it sounded like — his love for meatballs and for bacon cheeseburgers, rolled into one. He had written out the ratios of beef, bacon, cheese and onion so that they added up to