"Good Intentions" Cheeseburgers

Dinner Menu:

Jericho Romaine Salad with Hard Boiled Eggs & Aged Feta Cheese (Oxbow Farms, River Farms, Glendale Shepherd)
"Good Intentions" Cheeseburger, Pickles & Roasted Beets (Olsen Farms, Appel-Farms, Parker's Pickles, Oxbow Farms)

When our daughter was 14 months old, we went to England for a week as a family.  Will was *finally* doing his graduation ceremony at Oxford for his master's degree, and we had some friends in London we wanted to see.  So we packed up the family and hopped the pond from Boston.

We ate at Gourmet Burger Kitchen at least four times during this week.  This was before my diet got really strict due to health issues and I could still have restaurant food, provided I just asked for a burger without the bun.  (These days, since there's so much soy or vegetable oil or fillers in things, we just eat at home.  I hate restaurants; I hate it when other people make my food.  I'm just terrified they will use an ingredient that will make me sick for days on end.)  And the baby could just munch on pieces of our burger, color with crayons, and eat copious amounts of sweet potato fries and make as much noise as she wanted since it was a family-friendly chain.

We loved it there.

And our favorite burger there?  The kiwiburger, sans bun, of course!  Cheddar cheese, beets, beef, fried egg, pineapple?  Sounds gross?  We loved it.

So I thought for sure I could easily replicate these guys for dinner tonight.  I had the best of intentions.

And then our first family camping trip with a 3 year old and a 11 month old packing frenzy took up too much brain space, and I realized I had used up all of my eggs earlier in the week.  And you really need the egg for the kiwiburger.

So we had what I called my "Good Intentions" Cheeseburger.  It had lovely intentions to be something else, but in the end... it was just a plain and simple cheeseburger, with roasted beets and a salad on the side.  The sharp cheddar cheese, however, was what made the burger.  Will commented how amazing just good meat and good cheese can taste: you don't need anything fancy.  You just need good quality base ingredients for an amazing, simple, nourishing dinner.

But I promised Will I would make the kiwiburger for a burger night soon.  :-)

My Local Table will be taking a break for a few days for our camping hiatus!  See you next week!