DeHeinzificaion

I'm reluctant to share this, as it hardly rises to the level of cooking, but it a) tastes good, and b) is a way to whittle away at the tomato glut,  even as we make the transition to the all-meat diets of winter. A long day of attempting to gather converts to the Church of Ferdinand de Saussure left me with a thirst, and a desire to revisit Tartare on a Bun. The patties were in the pan before I realized we had no ketchup. I know that commercial ketchup is basically an oozy red crack rock of sodium and high fructose corn syrup, but I do like it on a burger. But this night, it was not to be. We did have a few tomatoes I salvaged from out back,* and of course we had mayonaise. Thin slices of tomato, thin layer of mayo on burger and on bun (English muffin, natch). It was a remarkable synthesis -- I'd bothered to get some decent beef, and the mayo was like Charlie Watts, tying the beef and the tomato together. If there are still good tomatoes where you are, I urge you to try this.

*Tomatoes, it turns out, do not flourish in a Waldorf school-style environment. They want discipline, or at least not to be left on their own all summer.

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