Hamburger Hazzards

The best way to question your ability to cook is to invite 8 people over for dinner and the food not turn out! After last week of the Pizza dough not rising and being able to use my tortillas for Frisbees, I should have attempted to make Hamburger buns before I try them out on someone else.

On Tuesday afternoon, Karin and Tim Bodony(our neighbors) and her mom and Dad came over to watch the end of the Iditarod on TV. It was great to have others there to Cheer on Lance Mackey for his 4th consecutive win. I felt privileged to get to meet him. Anyways, Everybody was over here and I had already planned Hamburgers for dinner and I had enough for everyone I just had not made the Hamburger buns. So we invited them to stay for dinner.

Well I guess I should have used my mom's recipe but I figured it was twice as big as I really needed. So I used a DIFFERENT recipe and it flopped. It did not rise at all, if possible it actually shrank!!! WHAT DO I DO NOW! I have 8 people coming for dinner and all I have ready are the Hamburger patties and those were actually pre-bought and pre-frozen so how bad could I mess those up? I guess after my dough didn't rise Keith didn't trust me to cook the burgers because he ended up cooking those patties himself.hahahaha Now I am really feeling good about my ability to cook! Well thankfully Keith was still at work before he started to cook the burgers and I called him and asked him to go to our grocery store to find ANY kind of bread. Our local Grocery store is similar to a Family Dollar just 4X more expensive and you are not guaranteed to have fresh products there. Thankfully they did have hamburger buns though I bet that if my Aunt Robin would have sent me some Fudruckers buns they would have made it here and still be soft.(Oh to have a Fudruckers here in Galena!) Anyways back to my story...Keith used to be a expiration date person but choosing bread here you have to ignore the dates and choose between hard, harder and hardest. Then when you get home you toast the buns so you think that the buns are hard because of the toasting and not because they are actually hard as hockey pucks.
Karin was so sweet saying we could have had flat bread burgers but after 2 months without a burger I WANTED MY BURGER TO LOOK AND TASTE LIKE A BURGER!!!!!! Let me tell you those burgers were the best burgers I have had in a long time! We had a great dinner of Burgers and Fries and a wonderful Berry Crisp that Karin made and wonderful fellowship with friends.

Since my dough didn't rise I figures I could at least make biscuits from the dough so not to waste it. Who would have thought that Hamburger buns that flop would actually make delicious biscuits. Keith even said "They were the best biscuits he has ever had" I am not sure he really meant that and I didn't really believe him but I must say they were gone before I even realized it so there must have been some truth behind his statement.

So my lesson learned this week was to try out recipes BEFORE you invite people over for dinner!