Making the Common Special

Blue Cheese Stuffed Burgers on the Grill

There is something satisfying about a biting into a burger fresh off the grill.

I confirmed that again last evening. Despite the downside of them being "just burgers," these were anything but common!

These were special burgers with blue cheese stuffed inside to add a bit of zing and spice. 

Some evenings it is hard to be creative in preparing the dinner meal. It just doesn't happen with ease. Last evening was just such a case. The meal was going to be boring--burgers on the grill. But, in a lucid moment of cooking genius the addition of the cheese inside the burgers changed everything. Suddenly, it is not just another burger evening, but a dinner complete with wine and all of the fixings enjoyed outside on the pool deck enjoying another beautiful, but storm filled evening.

Taking the common and making it special is worth the effort. It adds creativity and spice to an otherwise lackluster situation.

-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD