Patty me this

 

The hamburger patties kind of fell apart but I thought they're still pretty good

This posting may be another short one. It's Saturday night and I decided to cook this morning. I've been plagued by this pound and a half of ground beef which I purchased from the dead meat section in the meat department of my local grocery store probably a few years ago doesn't seem that long but it probably was. It was a good deal I can't remember what the price was but it's been in my freezer ever since getting more and more what I would consider is frostburn and after my experience the other day with the ice cubes that were yucky because they had sat too long in the freezer I thought I better get to using my Frozen stuff up before I lose it all through my laxity of cooking. When I got this package of ground beef the beef had already turned brown away from its pretty red color when it's fresh. Of course that's the reason it was in the Dead meat section it was cuz it looked like it was old and yucky. I have learned however many times yucky looking pieces of meat turn out pretty good one has to be patient and use the right seasoning. I however have that problem of getting stuff and never really using it whether it's frozen ground beef or when I would buy something like a watermelon I have a hard time cutting up that same day for some reason I want to let it wait for a day or two invariably when I do cut them melon it's all soft inside and really not good. My goal these days is to use the product within a week after I purchase if the thing is sealed like cheese then maybe I'll let it ride for a longer. I don't buy milk in traditional milk containers you get from the market I buy the milk at the Dollar Store- - I think I've written about this in the past- about the quart  containers of milk I stored in the pantry- - otherwise I would be throwing away copious amounts of milk when it turns sour.

I took the ground beef out of the freezer probably around 1:30 or 2:00. I meant to pull it out earlier but kept forgetting to reach into the freezer to get ground beef. When I did finally go to retrieve the meat product it was so far in the back of the freezer that I could not easily grab it so I finally ended up getting one of my hooks I was able to pull it to the front of the freezer then. I left the meat out on the cupboard to thaw out. It's a Dirty Shame a cold front wandered through this last day or so temperatures came down. It had been so hot recently that no problem of thawing in time but not today it was in the '80s. By the time I was ready to start meal preparation I would say 95% of the ground beef and thawed out but there are still a little pieces that were still frozen pieces about the size of my thumb. I hope the human interaction and Heat would finish the job. I processed the green peppers and the onions and found a couple of pieces of bread that was still viable. Chop chop chop tear up tear up and soon I had the ingredients. I mixed the bread into the hamburger first then I put in the egg with the hopes that with the hand movement and the relative warmth of the egg it would melt the remaining bits of frozen ground beef. I think it kind of work but I sure made a mess. By the time I added the chopped onions and the green pepper I had lost major pieces of the meat product over the side and on the floor. I got rid of most of the eggshell but there's a few left on the countertop. I mixed the meat as best I could with the other ingredients and I came out with some fairly decent mix the next problem was making hamburger patties. I think I finally figured out tonight why I can't make hamburger patties like my mom or other people. My hands won't flatten out they remain sort of cupped up and so I end up getting almost a meatball instead of a flat Patty that kind of worked.. kind of. I do as best as I could to make patties that were flat. The meat itself did not really bind together well even with the egg but I mixed it up as well as I could made a plate full of patties and various other pieces of the concoction that fell to the side eventually throwing everything into a frying pan. I sort of did okay I may have overcooked the patties a little bit but that's how I like him and since I'm the only one eating BFD. I pulled the Patty's out eventually they're pretty well done and a lot of them did fall apart. I don't know if I'm just going to pick up the pile of meat or maybe serve it with a can of mushroom soup without the water so it's a mushroom gravy that might be good have it over potatoes or something- - this is my Saturday night Delight…