For much of my life, I've been a reluctant eater with little interest in food. Little or no cooking was done in the family home when I was growing up and boiled eggs and porridge were the limits of my gastronomic talents.
When I decamped to the countryside five years ago I couldn't have told you how to cook a lettuce, but since I started growing my own food, I've been attempting to improve my culinary prowess and add cookery to my already extensive list of accomplishments.
I’m a fast learner and after only five years practice I am proud to report that the house menu now contains three choices;
Burger with Panella,
Burger with Roast Potatoes
and
Burger Surprise.
What’s Burger Surprise? Well, that’s burger without Panella or roast potatoes!:)
For dinner tonight it’s Burger Surprise, a burger in a homemade bun with fried onions and a heap of homegrown greens. In summertime, it’s served with lashings of Basil pesto but we’re still waiting for the basil to grow.
I won’t bore you with the recipe for my exquisitely tasty and nutritious burger, but here are the ingredients.
Suffice it to say I dice them, slice them, boil them, fry them, glue them all together with cheese and finally roll them in nutritional yeast. I make 12 at a time and freeze them.
Please refrain from pointing out that there are only six in the photo.
I have fed these burgers to carnivores, friends, enemies, pernickety feckers and ne'er do wells and have received nothing in return but compliments and empty plates. We're a zero-food-waste household. I starve everyone until they're so hungry they eat everything except the plate.
I have 400 onions and 100 garlic in the ground, 25 kg of lentils and 10 kg of nutritional yeast in storage, as well as frozen cheese galore, so I reckon I'll be ok for burgers until at least 2030.
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Posted in response to galenkp's weekend experience prompt asking you to make, buy or draw your favourite pizza or burger and explain why you love it so much.