Black & White Burger

In my pursuit of all things delicious, I am yearning for a solid veggie burger recipe. I have done black bean burgers before with minor success. They have all tasted great, but consistency wise fall below where I would like. Perusing the internet for some inspiration, I came across these from namelymarly.com. I find it quite nice that there is a never ending source of vegetarian/tasty/pretty/yummy/healthy blogs out there. I could literally spend all my time searching for new things to make!

I'd give these a good thumbs up, although I need to probably try them sticking exactly to the recipe. I still have problems with measuring, I'm a guesstimater you see. And frankly, I'm okay with it....it just proves difficult when trying to then reproduce my dishes on paper. Another fun fact about me: I will use the least amount of dishes and utensils possible when cooking and baking. So for this, when it called to put grind up some of the beans in a food processor, I wasn't exactly feelin' it. The parts were still in my dish rack from being used and washed earlier in the day. So I nixed that step. It may be the missing link between my pretty good patties with okay consistency and awesome patties with consistency that melts your face off. All in all, these had great flavor. They have already been eaten as left overs in the form of a wrap with veggies and simply heated up with a little sour cream on top(I wasn't feeling so hot yesterday but knew I could use a little protein).

FYI, this burger went on homemade ciabatta rolls. Yeah, that's right. I went there. A little time consuming but sooooooo worth it. And way cheaper than you would buy them for. I'll get that posted today too.

INGREDIENTS:
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
1 small onion, chopped
1 cup cooked brown rice
3 tbls flour
1 tbls lemon juice
1 teas salt
1 tbls chili powder
1/2 cup cornmeal
olive oil
salt and pepper

*Place half the beans and onion in food processor, pulse until coarse ground.
*Mash the rest of the beans in a bowl. Add back in the other beans, rice, flour, lemon juice, chili powder, and salt. Stir to combine. Add cornmeal and stir again. Let it sit for about 10 minutes. If its still to wet, add in some more cornmeal.
*Shape dough into 6 patties.
*Heat a splash of olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. When hot, place in patties and cook about 5 minutes on each side. Keep patties hot in a 250 degree oven for about 10-20 minutes, while the rest of the patties cook.
*Enjoy!

Cornmeal Crusted Walleye

To put it simply, our vegan diet has been busted. I enjoyed the last couple weeks of food exploration and creation. But for now, we will be going back to an anything goes diet, rooted mainly in healthy full-flavor dishes that usually end up being vegetarian. This one however is based all around a fish.

My dad gave me some fresh walleye he caught a few weeks ago. I froze those bad boys, knowing we weren't going to be eating them for a while. But the other day I saw fit for a nice and easy fish dinner. I've always loved fish, since my dad put it on the table at least once a week during the non-winter months. I've also always loved its ease in preparation and cooking. A few little preps and seriously no time at all and you have yourself a meal. Just like this one. I paired it with some real simple steamed broccoli and garlic red skin mashers.

INGREDIENTS:
4 fish fillets
1/2 cup of cornmeal
pinch of salt and pepper
1/2 teas cayenne
olive oil

*Put a couple tablespoons of oil in a pan over medium-high heat.
*Mix all dry ingredients and coat by dredging the fillets on both sides, place in pan
*Flip after a couple minutes, depends on thickness of fillet. Enjoy!