Tonight, I had a craving for fast food, but the nearest fast food is over 600km away. So I decided to see how good a homemade replica I could make with things already in the kitchen.
- Fries: cut extra thin and fried in oil. We still have a huge excess of potatoes.
- Burger: the kind that comes out of a frozen package (so just like fast food!)
- Bun: we didn’t have any buns, so I cut the crust off some bread, fried it a bit, and put some sesame seeds on it.
- Special sauce: I googled the recipe for this… mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, finely minced white onion, sweet pickle relish (aka some finely minced pickles), and French dressing – we didn’t have any of this either but I looked up a recipe for that and it was basically the same as the above ingredients + ketchup.
Success! Tasted somewhat convincingly like fast food. Or maybe I’ve just been up here too long.
