Cheesy Bacon Burger Balls

Tonight's entree... I don't really have a name for it. As usual, it's made from what I had on hand... havarti and parmesan cheeses, ground pork, bacon, and seasoning. Plus? I measured instead of eyeballing the seasoning so I can relate the information. See what I do for you?

I'm cooking just for myself because I have no one, so the recipe is fairly small... made 8 cheesy bacon burger balls... rolls right off the tongue, don't it? Hey, a name! And hey! No carbs!

1/2 lb lean ground pork

4 strips bacon, cut into halves

1 tsp dried parsley

1/8 tsp greek seasoning

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp garlic salt + extra

2 tbs shredded parmesan

2 slices havarti cheese

Preheated the oven to 375. Then I started out by folding each slice of havarti into 4, then each quarter into 4 to approximate cheese cubes. Sounds lame, and it is, but again it's what I had on hand so shaddap.  I ended up with 8 little piles of cheese.

Mixed the pork, parsley, greek seasoning, salt, garlic salt, and  parm in a bowl then divided the meat into 8 equal pieces. Took a piece of meat, flattened it into a mini patty in my hand and plunked a havarti pile in the middle, then folded the meat around it careful to seal the edges, rolled it into a ball, and placed it in a foil lined pan. Repeated the process with the remaining meat.

Sprinkled the balls with garlic salt, then wrapped each ball with a piece of bacon, overlapping the ends.  I used toothpicks to secure the ends in case the bacon shrank, which just seemed to make sense to me and I didn't want the bacon just flopping around in the oven.

Baked them for about 40-45 minutes, and have a few thoughts after taking them out of the oven. First, the cheese in the middle isn't gooey enough. I'm thinking mozzarella would be better presentation-wise... but I'm only feeding myself so no complaints. Second, a sauce or something on the side for dipping would be nice but I'm a carb nazi so options are limited. This was an experiment that went well enough I'd do it again... huzzah!