Happy Fourth & Hangover Burgers

Dinner Menu:

Hangover Burgers: Grass-Fed Hamburgers, Sunny Side Up Eggs, Bacon Ends (Olsen Farms, Stokesberry Sustainable Farm, Olsen Farms)
Steamed Broccoli (Oxbow Farms)
Roasted Mixed Heirloom Potatoes with Olive Oil, Sea Salt and Paprika (Olsen Farms)

Happy Fourth of July!  I hope you had a lovely day.  We just stayed close to home, riding our bicycles (and pulling the kids in the double trailer) to a playground/beach just a few miles away.  I packed a simple picnic lunch and we ate by the water after about an hour of playing at the playground.

We didn't drive anywhere.  That is what we consider a holiday.  :-)

Burger nights require Will to be home right before dinner: there's a lot of moving parts happening and a lot of different elements that all need to come together at the same time, so I need him to take the kids for that crucial last 30 minutes.  Burger nights are great for the weekends and great for holidays.  And even though we're not hung over, nor will we be tomorrow, these hangover style burgers were amazing.

I didn't make the eggs for the kids (they prefer scrambled to the oooey-gooey sunny side up kind), but they did scarf down the bacon ends and the burgers quite happily.  Only bummer?  Avocado isn't local.  A huge slice of avocado would have really gone well with this burger!

And this is the second night with no local fruit in the house, so once again I went without any dessert or after dinner snack.  (The kids had some store bought fruit and avocado for snack; we don't make them abide by my "only local" rule for snack time if there's nothing left in the house to eat.)  Not that I have anything to complain about; my dinner was amazing!  But I won't be sad when we can load up on some fresh peaches and berries at the farmer's market again this weekend!

Will enjoying his Hangover Burger.