Day 2: February 2021

On the second day of deliciousness, my true love gave to me…..a cheeseburger. A grass-fed beef and bone marrow @butcheryatbowhouse cheeseburger, to be precise. Cooked sous vide with my @anovaculinary to a perfect medium, then seared and topped with a slice of jarlsberg, lettuce, tomato, mustard and ketchup, and snuggled into a brioche bun. 🍔

My husband and I met on New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh, drunkenly made out and the next day, he drove me to the airport and sent me off on a plane back to NYC. It only took him five days to book a ticket to come visit me—on February 15. Because our “first date” falls the day after Valentine’s Day, we skip the flowers, chocolate and hubbub of the 14th and instead always do something special the following day. This year, we celebrated with an ode to our first restaurant meal together— burgers and fries and beers at @jgmelon_nyc . 🍔

There were no checkered tablecloths at our 2021 cheeseburger celebration. No round crinkled fries. No wait. No bar to wait at. No one around us but Theo and the cat. And it wasn’t Melon’s. It wasn’t New York. But it was my favorite thing I cooked In February 2021. 🍔