Chickpea Burgers
Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted. But to be honest, I don’t do much that is really exciting lately. LOL. School is all sorted out now, tuition is paid, books are bought, locker is secured, ID is printed. Money is evaporated. -_-
Took a nice trip out to Victoria Park in Truro with the old people the other day. Was a REALLY nice walk, lots of stairs though, which the old people didn’t really like. I on the other hand, climbed up Jacob’s Ladder, which is apparently 200 steps high or something retarded. Sure was sweating like a pig by the time I was done too. I have some pictures from there too, but I don’t have Photoshop on the new computer yet so I haven’t gotten them resized and retouched and all that jazz. Yes, I retouch every picture, regardless of whether it’s people or trees.
So onto the food! I decided that in my eternal quest to not be so fat, I should start incorporating vegetarian meals into my eating. Now I definitely couldn’t do it every day (sorry vegetarians, I just like meat too much… [let's not go there...]), but for a few meals a week it’s pretty good. And healthy apparently. The recipe I used today was from Pulse Canada, and was Chickpea Burgers (for those of you that couldn’t guess that from the twitter post, or from the title of this post…). Now I had to make some changes to the recipe because I am A. lazy and B. stupid. I thought I had green onions and lemon at home, so I didn’t buy any of those. When i got home, I didn’t. So instead of Lemon Rind I used a drop of lemon extract (Which I had to taste test to see if it would work. I offer this advice: DO NOT TASTE THIS ON IT’S OWN. IT HAS ALCOOL IN IT. SRSLY, I GOT DRUNK FROM A DROP OF THIS VILE CONCOCTION!). And instead of Green Onions I used a bit of regular onion and some fresh from the garden chives. Mmm.
Also, since I didn’t want to turn the oven on, I didn’t roast my nuts first. Wow, that sounded kinda sexy. I also had the parsley ready to go and forgot to put it in. That sounded kind of sexy too. I think I need a date.
So here’s what they looked like in their primordial, precooked glory.
Tasty looking, nes pas? And of course, never let it be said I don’t have an eye for presentation.
OK now to be totally honest, I hate tomatos on my burgers. So I cut some tomato slices JUST FOR THE PICTURES and then ate the tomato seperately. I debated lettuce, but I didn’t feel like going to the fridge again.
The burgers turned out really well actually. They of course didn’t have the texture of a real burger, but the taste was darn good. I bet it would be even better if I followed the recipe more closely next time, LOL. I’m gonna check out some other recipes on there, but if you have any suggestions for vegetarian cuisine, twoot at me or comment here or whatever. 
