Day 30 - Chefs!

The text simply said hamburger meat.  Considering we've been together for over two years, I know that was meant to be a reminder.  Shorthand, if you will, for please stop at the grocery store and pick up some hamburger meat for dinner tonight.  You see, after this much time, we skip many of the formalities and cut right to the chase.  While stuck in horrid Cambridge traffic, I responded, Will do.  Heels are messed up so may stop off for sandals first.

I ended up not stopping at home first.  Instead, I decided to skip the grocery store altogether and go to the butcher instead.  Lately I've been on a kick for the best ingredients; I'm starting to realize that if you start with better quality ingredients then you (a)don't need as much and (b)it's better for you.  So, off to the butcher I went.  I ended up finding beef ribs on sale and ground sirloin for less than I'd pay for regular chuck at our local grocery store, so I picked up both.  $10 and we'll get 3-4 meals out of it?  Not bad!

When I got home, The New Husband was being particularly lovey.  "What's wrong with you," I asked.
"Nothing," he exclaimed, with a gleam in his eyes.  "Let's cook!"

"You don't ever cook with me," I said cautiously.

"I know, but I'm so excited about dinner, I want to help you cook."

I eyed him suspiciously.  "Okay then....get the tator tots from the freezer - the Trader Joe ones - and please wash the mushrooms so I can saute them."  We quickly got to work.  I was slicing and sauteeing the mushrooms and frying up the bacon - all for his monstrosity of a burger.  I don't eat mushrooms and I've cut all pork from my diet.

In the end, we made the juiciest burgers and crispy tator tots.  He slathered his with cheese, mushrooms and bacon.  Thankfully we don't eat like this every night or we'd both be dead of heart attacks in a matter of months.  "This," he said with his mouth full of food, "is the best burger.  You could put Fuddruckers out of business."

"Thanks," I said and laughed.  "I'm not quitting my day job."

"But you could.  You could is all I'm saying."

"I liked cooking with you tonight.  We should do that more often."

"Definitely!"

And so began the Era of Couples Cooking.