…That is the challenge that Brad and I made for ourselves. We’ve been on a little kick lately of getting a meat and a fresh veg once a week, without any preconceived ideas on what we want to do with it, and whipping it into something tasty through only a little forethought.
When I was in 4th grade, my dad was in one of his rare uncoupled phases. He was a cop with two kids who worked the night shift, so my older brother took care of both of us; he did the laundry, made sure I did my homework, and made dinner. And because it was simple to make, my dad often bought those packages of frozen hamburger patties for us to make for dinner. We started to get sick of hamburgers almost every night, until one of us spotted the big twirling spice rack on the counter and decided that it wasn’t just decoration. Since we were kids, the combinations of spices that we doused our patties with were peculiar …but invariably quite good, as long as we restricted ourselves to less than five spices. It really opened my eyes to the possibilities of spices.
In a way, that’s what Brad and I are doing. Except that we actually know what the spices taste like before throwing them together. And we didn’t actually use very many spices in this recipe. But it’s still the same sort of idea!
