Moving on. Though I can put on a good show, I've discovered that having a single night of bad sleep can throw me off for the next several days. I slept poorly on Tues, okay on Weds, and well Thursday night, but by the end of work on Friday I was falling asleep on a student who'd come in for a private lesson. Luckily I still managed to help her fix her lace, which she proclaimed 'saved her life'.
On the bus ride home I contemplated dinner. We were supposed to do burgers. I was so tired. Yawning tired. I ran through a list of local restaurants in my head, and argued with myself internally.
Pro: I am tired and won't have to do anything if I let those nice peoples make my dinner.
Con: I will feel like a weak failure and probably won't enjoy the ill-gotten food that much.
The fact that we were eating out all weekend pushed me back into the "no, I will be STRONG!" arena of thinking (though I suffered a setback when I realized I had also planned on making fries). Then a blast of inspiration, what if I topped the burgers with caramelized balsamic onions and brie? Memories of the burger at the Bistro in Independence tantalized me.
I think this is why I get lazy about cooking sometimes, I seem determined to always make more work for myself.
But surprisingly, the fries and the onions were very easy to make and didn't require much more than slicing and putting over heat.
Tech Support came home and I put him in charge of the burgers.
In about a half an hour, we had brie burgers. Not quite as good as the ones in Independence, I think we needed a milder brie, but delicious anyway. Very satisfying after a long day of saving lives.
2 comments:
You know, either way it has "ass" in it. Are those Cook's Illustrated fries? Were they really easy?
Totally are both. I was surprised however, by how fast they cooled down. Our timing was a little off and the burgers weren't ready until 10-15 minutes after the fries came out of the dutch oven and by then they'd cooled completely.
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