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Hamburger Dream Etc

Last night I slept for 5 1/2 hours straight before nature called. (TMI) This is probably a record for an old dude.  During that time I had a lot of dreams. I remember two of them.

In the first one I compiled a list of Wordle words.  I remember" paste, savor, blast, chore and a bunch more.  Yes, I have become addicted.  As a former computer programmer I think that I know how the Wordle app was developed and I think that the developer was a gifted technician.

In my second remembered dream, I developed a recipe for frying a hamburger in the kitchen. Here is that recipe.

Ingredients:

1/4 pound of raw red hamburger from a Super Market

1 small Portuguese roll

a lot of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (why virgin?)

a lot of German mustard

a lot of piccalilli

some butter

1 garlic clove

1 table onion

1 slice of a cardboard-tasting tomato

1 leaf of wilted lettuce

Preparation:

Cut the roll and squeeze it into a toaster, cook until toasted.

Cover the toasted roll with lots of butter, and set aside

Heat a small unstrickable frying pan (from Kohl's) on medium heat after covering the bottom of the pan with lots of olive oil.

Run the garlic clove and table onion through the Food Processor until it has a smooth consistency.

Grab the raw hamburger and massage it until it looks like a baseball.  Squeeze the garlic/onion mass into the ball.

Frying Procedure

Squash the baseball-looking hamburger into the heated pan and flatten it out with a plastic spatula (you know, that long-handled thing with a wide flat area at the end that some folks use to swat flies.)

Let it cook for two minutes, turn it over with the spatula and cook for two minutes more. (If the smoke alarm goes off, wave the spatula at it until the alarm stops.)

After Frying Procedure

Remove the cooked hamburger from the pan with the same spatula and place it on a small dinner plate.  (If some of the hamburger still looks red, stick it into the microwave oven for two minutes.)

Place the bottom piece of the toasted/buttered roll on another plate.

Cover the roll with the tomato slice and lettuce piece.

Stick the cooked hamburger on top.

Slaver the hamburger with the mustard and the piccalilli.

Cover it all with the top of the buttered Portuguese roll. 

Nuke it for 15 seconds to make sure it is still warm.

Slice the sandwich in half with a serrated kitchen knife, because if you try to eat it whole you will probably break your dentures.

Enjoy!