Feeling very Californian, made myself a big lunch salad--shredded romaine lettuce (my latest favorite), tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, a few slivers of hard salami, roasted red peppers with a chipotle Russian dressing. Maybe it's the almost crispy romaine which reminds me of ice-berg that is urging me to pass up my traditional vinaigrette for a dressing I must have loved as a child. Maybe this turning to child-hood favorites is a sign of advancing years. I do not know.
There is still one more hamburger waiting to be eaten. I boiled two potatoes at lunch, thinking they might be part of my salad, but it looks like they'll go into a dinner concoction. And indeed they did. With bacon in the fridge, how can I not begin with it? My hand was forced.
Cooked up one very thick strip of bacon cut into lardon sizes (my bacon is a package of
ends and pieces from Trader Joe's). When the lardons were nicely crisped I removed them from the pan, leaving quite a bit of bacon fat (the piece I used was indeed mostly fat).
I'd cut the two boiled potatoes into large dice and began browning them in the bacon fat--as they began to darken, added one small onion thinly sliced and chopped garlic. As they softened, I tossed in a cup of corn kernels (from a can this time, no fresh corn in the house). When the kernels browned (just another minute or two), I added the last left-over burger--broken into small pieces (not the most ideal, either for this dish, or for the left-overs themselves, but the best I could do), along with a few slivers of the long-ago roasted red and yellow peppers. When everything was warmed through, topped it all with slivers of thai basil. A classic tasty left-over meal.
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