This meal was not kosher

Tonight we enjoyed hamburgers for dinner. Sometimes when I cook it isn't an epic kitchen fail. Sometimes I make something so delicious I surprise myself.



I even took a pretty decent picture. Shock and awe.

We had some left over preformed beef patties in the freezer that I took out last night to defrost. I chose these beef patties because they were just beef from a source claiming to be local. I grew up on Organic Free Range beef before Organic Free Range beef was anything special. Perhaps it's slightly warped but I knew every steer who fed me because I had fed him at some point in his life. The owner didn't treat his cattle and they roamed free until they didn't. It's important to me to eat beef that tastes fresh and not artificial. I can't say these patties met that criteria, and I won't be buying them again, but I'm still slowly emptying my kitchen of things performed or boxed. So I'm cutting myself some slack.

I didn't do anything especially fancy to the burgers. I'm generally an onion opponent except when it comes to deep frying them in batter or sautéing them in fat and piling them on top a juicy burger. Tonight I felt like sautéd onions. Spread a little mayo (seriously a little because anything more than a little is just nasty) and some ketchup, pile with several nice sprigs of leaf lettuce, smash together, plate, eat. It was about as ungourmet as it can get. Although the Kaiser roll was a nice touch.

The exciting part, however, was the 3YO who requested "salad" on her burger and actually PUT the "salad" on her burger and then actually ATE the "salad" with her burger. That was pretty much the defining moment of the meal. I'll make hamburgers more often if she keeps this up.

That was dinner. Right now I have potatoes baking so I can make hashbrowns and dippy eggs for breakfast to get the day started off on the right foot. Or left foot. Doesn't really matter to me which one.