What Is Left To Eat? -- a Food Journal by Laura Bracken

Remember those bean/quinoa burgers I made the other day? I had a lovely chat with my USPS mail carrier and she was telling me how she toasts slices of sweet potato and uses it as a bun for carrier like bread.   Her favorite, she said, is avocado toast. She said she just puts slices of sweet potato into the toaster and runs it for a few cycles.   I don’t have a regular toaster and I can’t imagine being able to get the slices out of the kind of toaster I’m picturing, but I do have a toaster oven so here’s what I made for lunch today. Gluten Free Whole Foods Plant Based Sliders Bean/quinoa burgers   Sweet potato Ripe avocado Ripe tomato Salt/pepper  Onion powder (optional) Red pepper flakes (optional) I had half a leftover sweet potato so I sliced it up and put the slices, completely naked, onto a rack in my 400-degree pre-heated toaster oven.   I can’t tell you how long to cook them because size and depth of the slices will mos...

Vegan No-Oil Burger Base Recipe Today I wanted to make some veggie burgers (or bean burgers… ‘cause I didn’t really use veggies in the prototype other than onion and garlic). ETA: Let me clarify why I’m making my own veggie burgers.  There are a lot of healthy choices for foods in grocery stores, but a lot of it is still processed foods.  My goal is to (without going crazy or turning this into a full time job) eat whole foods as often as possible and if a meal requires a mix of ingredients, I’d rather make it myself from scratch.  Oh… I’ll be posting a follow up to this as I got a new kitchen toy recently… so stay tuned. I found a recipe online but I have to admit I am a bit lost in trying to provide a link to the original source recipe.   Apparently there’s a site called “ Deliciously Ella ” and the recipes there look great but I could find no search function nor could I find this recipe there.   Oddly enough, if you google the name of the re...