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I don't know if I like it, I may be trying a couple of different ones so excuse the schizophrenia...

Veggie Burgers

While there is nothing like a juicy burger stacked with cheese, grilled mushrooms and onions, tomatoes (or tomato jam if, like now, tomatoes suck and you may as well put pink cardboard on your burger thereby ruining each bite), lettuce, and whatever else suits your fancy. 

 

But.

 

There is nothing wrong with a good veggie burger once in a while.  And that's exactly what this is...

 

Veggie Burgers

(Adapted from Whitewater Cooks, Shelley Adams)

(A food processor comes in extremely handy and you'll make these in no time flat.)

Start with the steel blade in your FP.

1 onion

2 cloves garlic

1 cup washed mushrooms

Place onion and garlic in the FP bowl , chop (on pulse) and remove from bowl (don't bother cleaning said bowl, all the ingredients are ending up in the same place).  Add mushrooms to bowl (whole) and chop on pulse.

Put these three ingredients into a large skillet with 1 Tbsp oil and saute until most of the water from the mushrooms has evaporated.  Let cool in a large mixing bowl.

 
  Change to the grater disc in your FP.

1/2 cup toasted almonds

1 cup roasted sunflower seeds

2 large carrots

2 cups oat

1-19 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed

Now, run each of the above ingredients through your FP in the above order (if you do the beans first, it will smush up the blade and you'll have to clean it off before proceeding.  I'm saving you an extra step.  You're welcome.) 

Scrape all of the ingredients into the big mixing bowl.  Add:

1 Tbsp cumin

1 Tbsp chili powder

2 Tbsp sesame oil

1/2 cup soy sauce

3 cups bread crumbs

1/2 cup chopped, fresh cilantro

Mix thoroughly then add:

5 eggs

Mix again thoroghly.

 

I used a 1/2 cup measure to make equal sized burgers.  And I used my pannini maker, but if you don't have one of those, use a frying pan with a bit of oil in it.

 

Worthy of the top of the food chain!

 

Speaking of Snow...

Snow day for Colin and me.  Wahoo!

 

It's hard to pass up 20 cms of fresh!

Sun, Snow and Dinos

It has been a schitzophrenic winter here.  Snow!  Sun!  Melt then ice!  And back to snow...  Whatev.

During one of the glorious sun-filled snow days Harry and I headed to the park.  There were piles of snow and great big snow balls ready to play in and on.  There were dinos that were great fun to throw up into the air and watch them "flump" into the snow. 

And of course a myriad of spinny-things at the park.  It almost makes me sick to watch Harry spin around.  Kids are crazy!

 

But the snow is following the fate of the dinosaurs as we are in a "melt phase" so everything is grey and brown.  I'm hoping for a bit more snow to get me through the last of winter.

The Age of Aquarium

Harry, being 3, is very curious.  So what better place to take him than the Vancouver Aquarium.

He was fascinated with the anenomes, loved the interactive tidal pool, especially the touching-the-starfish part, and was in awe of the jellies.

He even met a girlfriend!  Quite the charmer that one.  I'm not sure what her parents thought, but the two of them had a blast zipping from this tank to that.  And had a fun time trying on the sea-worthy costumes while the adults had a good laugh.

Unfortunately he seems to have forgotten the long drive to get there from our house as he asks (daily) to go back.  He needs to pick up a stuffed penguin "to be friends with" his stuffed shark.  (Who's name is Plumpy by the way.)  But, lucky for me he says "Auntie Erin"  has to buy said penguin.  Ha ha!  So get on it, Auntie!

Then we went for sushi.  Seemed appropriate.

 

 

More fishy photos here...