Sunday Lunch - Cheeseburgers!

Our Sundays consisted of the same thing, week in and week out. In fact most of my childhood did. No wonder I don't adapt to change well as an adult.

My parents made sure we went to church EVERY Sunday. You had to be on your death bed to get out of going. I think I missed once in high school cause I had a concussion from a major wipe out skiing the day before.

Anyway, we'd go to church and then dad had to stop at his favorite gas station to get the Sunday paper. Then we'd go to Thompson's, a local grocery store that no longer exists. By then I was starving! Why couldn't dad get the newspaper at Thompson's and save the trip to the gas station? Was the paper better at the gas station? And mom wouldn't shop the day before because we had to have "fresh" buns from the bakery for the hamburgers. What difference does a day make!?!?

So we'd get all the stuff at Thompson's go home, and then mom still had to make and cook the cheeseburgers! Meanwhile I'm dying of starvation. So I'd always sneak a bunch of Doritos (they only had cheese flavor Doritos back then) and read the Sunday jokes. (The comics according to my husband)

As with everything else my mom makes, she also makes the best cheeseburgers. She makes them very big and round. Not thick, but big in circumfirence. That's why she uses the nice fancy hamburger buns from the bakery instead of the packaged ones. Her hamburgers would never fit on a regular old packaged bun. Plus the bakery buns make cheeseburgers taste so much better. All mom does is throw some salt and pepper on them, and cook them over the broiler. Again, she has a gas stove so she gets to flame broil her burgers. She cooks them so perfectly. Dad is in charge of the cheese though. She always has all the fixings like sliced tomato, onion, lettuce, relish, mustard, ketchup, and fancy mustard. I only used the ketchup.

So if you want to add a little oomph to your burgers, make them Karene's way. Make them big in circumfirence, yet thin, and put them on a fancy bakery bun with all the fixings. Only use salt and pepper too. You don't need all that fancy hamburger flavoring stuff.

Here's to a Happy Hamburger! (cheeseburger)