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Falafel Burgers – Vegan Junk Food That Isn’t Junk Food.
It was time to try something a little different for dinner last night. Allegra is obsessed with burgers, and we both like falafels, so we decided to combine the two for maximum delicious (and nutritious) results!
We’ve made falafels in the past, so it wasn’t too difficult to conjure up the taste we loved. We started with this base recipe from Chef In You.
The inventory for our recipe ended up being:
15 0z. can chickpeas
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp lemon zest
5 leaves of basil
5 leaves of mint
Dash of cayenne pepper
Dash of pepper
1.5 dash of salt
0.5 cup garbanzo/fava flour (I’m sure you could use whatever flour you’d like)
Step Zero:
Pre-heat the frickin’ oven to around 350 degrees of the Fahrenheit.
Step Uno:
Drain the chickpeas, rinse ‘em good.
Step Dos:
Put everything except the flour into a good quality blender or food processor. BLEND until it looks like moist cookie dough. (Note: It will not taste like cookie dough)
Step Tres:
Scoop it out. Add flour until it’s drier and moldable, sort of Play-Doh consistency. It’s okay if you don’t use all the flour, or if you use even more!
Step Quatro:
Grease a baking sheet, grease it good. Or use parchment with a light spritz of oil. YOUR CHOICE.
Step Cinco:
Pat the falafel dough into patties like any ol’ hamburger sorta thing and slap ‘em on the sheet. (Note: These are best fresh outta the oven. We decided to just make two patties and save the rest for latter. We covered the bowl with foil and had some for lunch today and it was totally still delicious, possibly even more so. We also popped some remaining patties into Ziplocs and locked ‘em in the freezer for a rainy day.)
Step 6 (translation necessary):
Cook until the top side starts to look a little dry, probably 8-10 minutes, then flip ‘em. They should be goldeny brown on the bottom (now top). Cook for another 7-9 minutes and then take ‘em out and eat them however you want!!
I’m allergic to wheat, corn, eggs, milk, and tomatoes so my burger toppings are probably going to look a little different than a lot of people. Allegra settled for the norm when it came to toppings: a toasted bun from our local New Seasons grocers, vegan mayo, mustard, ketchup, lettuce, onions, and pickles. I went for a more avant garde combination: lettuce-wrapped with Wholly Guacamole, Karam’s (of Seattle) Garlic Sauce, onions, salt and pepper with a side of Pop Chips (OMG, I love Pop Chips).
We both agreed it was a fantastic dinner which will be put into the vegan vault of meals we are slowly accruing.
Whether you’re a staunchy meatball consumer, or someone who only enjoys eating things without a mother and a face (think about it), this is a recipe for anyone.
Three words for you: CHOMP. ON. THIS.
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Vegan Ron Swanson.
Is he a man or a mustache? I would argue both.
One thing there’s no debate about though is how Ron Swanson likes his animals:
Freshly dead and on a plate.
But may I present to you, the anti-Ron Swanson… Vegan Ron.
Vegan Ron would never approve of THIS:
Peeta….bread.
‘Nough said.
Woody Allen – To Rome With Love
While there’s little to no info about the premise of this upcoming film, it’s probably safe to say that To Rome With Love is going to be watchable – I mean, it’s a Woody Allen film. Here’s a couple more reasons it will be well worth 90+ minutes in the theater: Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penélope Cruz, and his sincerely will be starring. As well as some supposedly famous dude named Roberto Benigni and numerous other Italians.
You can’t really conclude much from these Collider photos, or these, but it looks like there’ll be plenty of banter between the fast-talking Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Eisenberg and some sort of romance twixt Eisenberg and Page – which in no way sounds like a bad idea. Keep your ear to the ground for more info regarding To Rome before it’s June 22, 2012 release date.
Recipez
Upons browsing a new-found site of deliciousness, Elana’s Pantry, I happened upon a few [read that: ALOT] recipes that sound fantastic, and here are some of them. These are all vegan, gluten-free, corn-free. Which is like a diamond mine of awesomeness for someone like myself with a billion and thirteen allergies. [Click the pics to go to the actual recipes, yo.]
“Wheat” Thins
Lemon Rosemary Mini-Muffins
Orange Dark Chocolate Scones
[not vegan, but I'm sure you could just toss in some Ener-G egg replacer instead, or do the ol' flaxseed method.]
Peanut Butter Cookies
Vegan Egg Nog
[There's something called "yacon syrup" in this recipe, which I didn't know what the bleep it was either, so I looked it up for you.] 
Have you any deliciousness you’d wish to share perhaps?? Because lately I’ve just been living off of Pop Chips, guacamole, and sawdust.
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- Pin It! The Best List of Gluten Free Desserts to Pin on Pinterest (hipmomsgogreen.com)
