My husband and I are creatures of habit — well OK, it’s definitely more him than me, but there are sometimes that I’ll willingly go along with with his routine. And one of them is a Friday night bacon cheeseburger. There is just nothing more satisfying than eating a messy burger loaded with all my favorite food groups on the last day of the work week. I mean — what a way to start the weekend!
During “normal” times, we always went to the same local Irish pub on Friday nights — we’d sit at the bar, chat with the bartenders and other friends that we’ve made at the bar over the past 6 years, have some good craft beers, and of course, that gooey burger. I always make sure that mine has cheese, bacon and some kind of spice on it — sriracha, a spicy BBQ sauce, something. And I’ve never understood folks that don’t put cheese and bacon on their burger. It belongs there, people, like peanut butter and jelly (although I’m not a huge jelly fan…), bagels and cream cheese, or pizza and beer — they just all go together!
Now that we are in the middle of this pandemic, my husband and I rotate our Friday night dinner spot. We’re trying to make sure that we support our local businesses. So that means I only get my messy burger every other week. And tonight was burger night!
I was super excited — my burger had pepper jack cheese, avocado slices, spicy salsa, bacon (of course!) and a few French fries were stuffed under the bun. At first I was a tad weirded out by the fries, but it tasted amazing! I enjoyed my Friday night treat. My husband waited until I was done with my burger, and then he told me he was planning on cooking burgers for our Saturday night dinner at home. I guess he didn’t want to be a buzzkill. Thank goodness I like burgers!
Notes from a Self Quarantine 