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The one quick recipe of note I made this week was the Cucumber Tomato Toss from The Everyday Vegan. A very summer-filled dish isn't really ideal in February, but hey. We do manage to stay in pretty good tomatoes year round here in Georgia. In fact, it's been in the upper 60F during the day most all week! But anyway.
The salad was very delicious. It's like it was created especially for my palette. Chopped cucumbers and tomatoes were tossed with lime juice, balsamic vinegar, basil, and a few other spices to make a perfect side dish to go along with our veggie burgers. It's like we had a winter picnic! Ha.
Speaking of veggie burgers, what is your favorite way to eat this stereotypical vegetarian dish? We like to be quick and easy by making thin patties from a roll of Gimme Lean, covering them with salt, pepper, garlic salt, and pan frying them. They're high protein, and fat-free, until you fry them in oil. This is one of Ken's favorite things to eat. I also have a soft spot in my heart for the Fantastic Foods Nature's Burger dry mix. These were the first veggie burgers I ate back fourteen years ago, when other packaged veggie burgers were yet to be available.
But what do you do? Do you make your own burgers from grains, beans, etc? Do you buy frozen patties? What's your favorite kind?
5 comments:
I like the ones I make best...but I never make them. When we're in the mood for veggie burgers, it's usually because we're lazy or in a hurry and we don't want to cook. Our preferred is Morningstar Farms Black Bean Burgers, but it appears to be full of chemicals and has way too much salt, so we don't have them often. I used to love the Gardenburgers, but I can't get them anymore. I'd love some recommendations.
I make my own using black beans, sauteed onions, garlic powder, salt, pepper and wome whole wheat flour. Mix and form into patties.
They are delicious.
i stopped by the store today and got a purse!
speaking of veggie burgers, we just eat the frozen Publix brand Vegan Burgers. They have this crazy grill-like taste to them. I like grilled onions, tomato, avocado and mustard on my veggie burger.
every once in a great while i'll make a big batch o burgers and freeze 'em for future use. there's a good tofu one in passionate vegetarian. otherwise, i usually keep some of the publix ones in the freezer. but i tend to gravitate towards non burgery patties like chickenish ones or those indian marsala patties trader joes was out of last time i was there. wah!
I really should make my own cuz I'm sure they would taste better... but if we're eating in I usually go for the gardenburger grilled chikn burger, topped with avocado, whole grain mustard, spinach, and tomato. When eating out we go to a local place with really yummy black bean burgers.
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