Veggie burgers tonight. Unfortunately after letting them slip off the menu for the last year or so, I seem to have lost the knack. I mixed and mashed beans, garlic, spring onions, mushrooms, nuts, breadcrumbs, cumin, smoked paprika, Worcester Sauce and fresh coriander and produce a soft brown mix which seemed reasonably firm as I made four burgers. Twenty minutes later I removed them from the oven, prodded them and decided to put them back. ten more minutes failed to firm them up so I carefully removed them from the baking sheet and flopped them onto our plates with the Spanish potatoes and coleslaw.
As I said to Julia, if I had told her it was a sort of Scandinavian soft bean hash she would probably have believed me. The flavour was right, even if the consistency (and colour) looked like something familiar to all country dwellers who walk through fields of cows.
No, I didn’t take photos. It’s not something I want to dwell on.
I’m going to stop reading recipes with “easy” and “simple” in the titles. They often aren’t, and even when thy are, they often fail o be much good. This one, mind you, was all down to me. Having looked at various recipes I made one up based on the contents of the fridge. Next time I’ll look for a complicated one featuring oatmeal and eggs and I’ll try for a burger that doesn’t bend when you pick it up.
Spanish potatoes are just English potatoes, before you get too excited. They are tossed in oil with garlic and smoked paprika before being roasted. They look alarmingly red but don’t taste as interesting as I had hoped.
Not an unqualified success but nice to feel I’m getting my interest in cookery back.
The picture is from last time I made veggie burgers.
I love veggie burgers so much! I have never had much success making my own, though. This makes me want to give it another go.
I used to have quite god results, but like everything, if you don’t use it you lose it. 🙂
Sounds a delicious meal. Veggie burgers are tricky – I’ve been cheating recently with ready-made soz mix.
Sounds like a good shortcut to me. Or “hack” as I believe they are now called. 🙂
It sounds very adventurous even if the results were not quite what you wished.
To a large extent my cookery is about the journey rather than the destination. You sometimes get adventure and you occasionally end up eating sandwiches. 🙂
I am quite conservative but I still have quite a few inedible memories.
🙂 It just seems to happen, doesn’t it.
Some beaten egg would definitely hold it together.
Yes, I may go back to using egg.
I think you should just rename the dish…who would know?
Good point! 🙂
Full marks for effort
Thank you. My efforts are famous, my results are less well known . . .