Poorly Executed Saturday

After such a foolish night, it made sense that I would have a stupid day as well. I did not sleep in like I expected I would. I was awake and functional at half past nine. By ten the TV was back on and the crusade continued. No food, no drink, just Office. That was how things went into the afternoon. I did manage to do all my daily routine things on my phone, like my French lesson, etc. but otherwise I didn’t do anything of consequence. It was around two in the afternoon by the time I got up and showered and dressed. I packed up all my stuff to go out, I needed to get groceries and at this point was not excited at the prospect of doing my full shop at this hour, with all the hordes of people. I made up the list and went out. I was feeling fairly weak from not eating or drinking anything in around 24 hours at this point but soldiered onwards. Once I got in the store and saw that I’d underestimated the absolute chaos and madness I quickly changed course to get only the items that I absolutely needed for the night’s Family Feast call. It was the Big T’s choice and he had selected the low carb sliders recipe. I had some ground pork but should use beef. I needed lettuce, dill pickle chips, tomato, red onion, onion powder, garlic powder, and the beef. I walked out with lettuce, beef and a bag of chips. The chips of course were supposed to be slices of actual pickles, I chose to interpret that differently and elected for dill pickle flavoured potato chips. I bailed on the onion and garlic seasoning, formulating a different plan, and on the red onion and tomato. I don’t usually put those on burgers anyways. I got home with enough time to take down three more episodes before I had to do dinner since I had severely truncated my shopping plans.

Again the meal turned out phenomenal. For formatting reasons I included a photo of the parties involved over mine, which was properly done in the landscape style while the others choose portrait like fools. The blue and brown stone plate is what my parents made. They also had small buns because they didn’t understand the low carb concept the recipe was aiming at. The plate with five was what my younger sister prepared, she was having some family over for a game night and had these as appetizers. My sister in America had access to proper pickle chips and you can see that in her photo with her “ruffle cut” pickle. Mine was the one with three, I wrapped them up before biting in. I made a few changes. I used the potato chips, I added mustard in the meat and over the top. I used a mixture of half pork and half beef. I put cheese within and underneath the meat. The special sauce I made wasn’t the one in the book but instead I mixed up some of the Heinz garlic aioli, some parmesan cheese and some Cholula and put a dollop under the meat. It was really good, will do again. Air fryer burgers are very good. My younger sister’s phone died at one point and she was off to host her few guests. The rest of us chatted for a bit longer and then I jumped off to get back to the binge. It went on until just before eleven at such time I had to summon way more willpower than should have been required to turn it off and get to bed. The groce would need to happen in the morning and I wanted to get it done before the ridiculous crowds accumulated.