Life of Wry

This is a corn, avocado, tomato, red onion (etc) salad I made tonight.

It accompanied Labor Day weekend BBQ burgers, along with another salad I made of watermelon, cucumber, red onion, mint, feta (etc). No pic on that one.. but it was also pretty and colorful.

Both salads were good. But were overshadowed by the worst hamburger I’ve ever made. Ever.

Who messes up a hamburger?! Me. But it wasn’t my fault.

I bought this at the coop….

…. which I thought was a good choice: organic, lean, grass-fed, non-GMO blahty blahty. It was rough. Maybe it was the lack of fat, but it was sinewy, dense, difficult to work with. I seasoned it and then tried to divide it into even-sized balls to form into patties.. and that should have been a sign. I had to use a knife to cut it into sections b/c I couldn’t pull it apart (it wasn’t even easy to cut). The patties were misshapen, but I figured they’d be okay once grilled. Jim BBQ’d them to perfection and they looked okay, if small (way smaller than the buns). Still coulda been good, but one bite into the thing and man… it was nearly inedible. Took forever to chew. Janet said it was like eating beef jerky burgers. She ate her bun but left most of the burger on her plate. I persevered, unhappily. Jim may have worked his down, as well.

With all of that going on, it was hard to appreciate the salads… which I kinda worked hard on. That stupid hamburger tainted the whole dinner.. which was disappointing and not a little embarrassing.

Bummer.

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Postscript: The next night, we had leftover salads for dinner and they were pretty good!