Tuesday, better late than never

Give me a couple of days off from blogging, and it's like I never started! Out of sight, out of mind, I guess!

Anyway, Tuesday's dinner was not late, just this re-telling of it. We've had quite dreary weather, and Tuesday (and Monday before it and Wednesday after it) were without sunshine and much more like March than May. Probably as a result, I've been feeling a little less than inspired and/or motivated. When I get in moods like that, it's comfort food I want to eat.

John cannot eat beef. Well, he can, but at great expense - it causes his gout to flare up painfully. Being as how he's awfully nice to me, I choose not to put him into pain. We don't often eat red meat at all, even though some of it does not affect his gout. The last time we had any red meat, it was a leg of lamb at Easter. His gout is also why we'll never go completely vegetarian. He cannot eat beans either. He shouldn't drink beer... but he's not willing to sacrifice a good microbrew or two. There are limits to what a man (or woman) is willing to do.

Thankfully bison is genetically different enough from beef that it doesn't cause him pain. It's also much leaner! About the only thing bad about boof is that it costs considerably more than beef.

I call beef "boof". Because it sounds funny. And because many people call bison "buffalo", which it is not. From the Italian cheese mozzarella di bufala (which is actually water buffalo, but it's the pronunciation of boof-ah-lah I'm getting at). It has nothing to do with the Red Sox signing a pitcher named Boof Bonser in the off-season. Although I did get quite the chuckle out of that one.

So Tuesday I had some thawed ground bison... thawed ground boof... available to use and boofburgers sounded easy and good. I made us each a 1/4 lb patty and put it on the griddle pan. When they were done, I added a few crumbles of blue cheese to the top. We had a salad to go with it.

For dessert, I made a cake. Yellow, with chocolate frosting. Betty Crocker, mind you, not from scratch. My grocery store had a great sale.