Burgers, Easy Homemade Buns

Burgers are a common meal at our house, especially in the summer. I don't think anyone ever gets tired of them, and they're quick and easy to grill outside, not heating up the house more than it already is by trying to cook inside.
We're very blessed to live on my dad's farm, where we raise our own (mostly) grass fed beef. Our cows also eat some oats grown by our neighbor, and some extra wheat spilled on the ground while someone was fixing a combine, but for the most part they eat pasture grass and hay. I know not everyone has access to grass fed beef, a shame because it's really the only kind of beef. Simply put, cows fed lots of grain in feedlots aren't natural or healthy and they don't make healthy meat. I'd really encourage everyone to read philosopher farmer Joel Salatin's book Folks, This Ain't Normal. He not only explains everything that is wrong with our food system (and a few other pet peeves he has with our unusual society), but also gives some simple ways that we can all help fix it, so that we can all have access to real, normal, natural, healthy food, like grass fed beef.
I could easily go on, but the purpose of this post is not to rant on the modern food system. I'll save that for another month. Right now it's August and there is just too much good food to talk about, so tonight I'm just going to write about tonight's dinner.
Burgers, as I said. I've always purchased my burger buns in plastic bags at the big grocery store in town, paying a couple bucks for eight buns, some of which inevitably will get either stale or moldy before we have burgers again. Or freezer burnt if I put them in the freezer so they don’t get moldy or stale. Since there are five of us, eight is never the right number of buns. Plus those buns are filled with all kinds of chemicals like Azodicarbonamide, which is outlawed because of health concerns in many countries, but not in the United States. Most of the buns contain high fructose corn syrup. And if I decide one night that I want to make burgers, and we have all the ingredients except the buns, I end up going to the store to buy buns, but I can’t just buy buns, because that would be a wasted trip, so I have to buy a bunch of other stuff I don’t really need right now. Now, my family is kind of picky, and normally when I try to make something myself that we usually buy premade at the store, they don’t like it. But one Sunday night a few weeks ago, I found myself in that position of a family wanting burgers for dinner, but having no buns. So I found a recipe online for quick and easy homemade burger buns, made them quickly and easily and my family loved them! Said they were the best buns ever! In fact, these buns are so good, they are delicious with just butter as a side dish for another meal, or as the bread for an egg sandwich for the next day’s breakfast. So with these buns, the leftovers never go to waste. And although they are made with white flour and a little bit of sugar, they don’t contain any weird chemicals.Oh, and they cost about 60 cents a dozen to make, saving a whopping $2 off what we'd pay for eight at the discount grocery store, up to $4 at the more expensive stores in town.
I used this bun recipe, from Taste of Home:  http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/40-Minute-Hamburger-Buns
Keeping it simple, we topped our burgers with Red Romaine lettuce from the garden. Side dishes were sautéed zucchini and sweet onions with garlic, and fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, all from the garden except the onions.