Showing posts with label black beans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black beans. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Sweet Potato Black Bean Babies

Happy Oscar Sunday!
Today I slept in! Well, I slept until 7 a.m., decided to be lazy, and stayed in bed until about 9. I spent a few hours working on my painting and am almost finished! Woooo. It's due tomorrow so hopefully my "master" of a teacher isn't too harsh with his critique. I can't decide whether or not I'm happy with it, so I'll just say I'm pretty mehhh towards it. The beach chair could use a LOT of work, but I'm having so much trouble with it that I know I'll end up destroying it if I try to fix it. In case you're wondering, here's where it is now:
aaaaanyway, onto a more delicious note.
Seeing as today is the perfect day for a from-scratch lunch, I decided upon veggie burgers. I found a recipe here, but never really follow recipes, so I made a highly-altered tiny batch just for myself. It could have been vegan had I not opted for the perfectly pillowy sweet Hawaiian roll, but I couldn't help myself--they're perfect!
I used canned black beans instead, Frank's Red Hot, wheat flour, onion powder (I don't like chunks of onion), pepitas instead of sunflower seeds, and unfortunately I didn't have coriander or cayenne. Boo. Regardless of the lack of those spices, the flavors were delicious! I baked the patties {375F} on a well-oiled cookie sheet for about 12 minutes on each side, then broiled them for about 3 minutes each side until they got crispy. My little batch produced two mini patties or one fairly large one. BUT! I didn't measure anything! I just threw everything in a bowl and crossed my fingers. Sorry. :(

Photos!:



Used Mama's paper towel baggie method for steaming the skins off of  blackened bell peppers :)

Nice and messy. That's the burger mixture + wheat flour + chopped pepitas.

Divine Hawaiian bread, hummus, and a roasted pepper.



Toooooooooo tall!

*Smash* better :)

30 minutes til the Oscars!!!!