Thursday, May 18, 2006
Loaded Chicken Burger
I'm starting to really struggle with my new, positive attitude. The sun has barely come out at all in a week and I can feel my spirit sinking with every overcast minute. "Why am I here?" I ask myself more and more often. I would love to just move back to South Africa, but Lofty and I are not skilled enough to get a work permit in a country with 40 percent unemployment and definitely not wealthy enough to live without working, so we're pretty much stuck in Europe. And as far as this cold continent goes, Ireland is far from the worst place to live. We tried the Netherlands, but failed to even find an affordable place to live. Prague was great, but with the low wages we would have earned there, we would never have been able to finance our planned trip to India. I could go on, but I won't. I'm determined not to start going all negative again - even though I had to leave my clothes at work today and cycle only in my rain suit and underwear to prevent me from ruining the silk dress I was wearing. Now I understand even less how anyone can wrap their entire body in rubber and have sexual pleasure of any kind. Yuck!But on the positive side, I got to be lazy tonight and still cook a ni
ce dinner. There is cooking that relaxes me despite being hard work, there is cooking that stresses me despite being incredibly easy and then there is simple cooking that is relaxing too. Tonight's dinner was a classic example of that last option: Freshly grilled (albeit shop bought) burgers with all the trimmings. In our case this meant cheddar cheese, sliced tomato, beetroot, sliced shallots (I was out of onions), black forest ham (for lack of bacon), fried mushrooms, potato wedges (made from baby potatoes because I was out of big ones) and guacamole. There are lots of other options, so be inventive. Whatever you do, as long as the basic ingredients are good quality, the result will definitely be better than any burger you can get in a fast food joint. And, as you have seen in this post, it is a great dinner if you have lots of odd bits and pieces.Christine at 9:56 pm
