The dishes I plan to make in the week or two ahead:
- Falafel with homemade pita
- Bittman’s Vegan Burgers from his newest soon-to-be-published cookbook
- Navajo Stew
- Pepin’s Cauliflower Soup
- Lydia’s Sausage Tomato Sauce over Rigatoni
- Various curries
- Straw Potato and Cheddar Galette
The Kitchen Billets-Doux 
Are the burgers bean or soy based?
Julie, they are bean burgers. Since it’s a Bittman recipe, you can choose from among a thousand different beans. just kidding haha…he lists as options cooked or canned black, white, red, or chickpeas, or lentils. i haven’t decided yet which we’ll use…or a combo, maybe.
hey — is that lydia from pbs?? i love her so hard! haha!! (no! i really do.)
YES! i love her too. i want more of her books.
NICE!!! love watching her and it always looks so yummy. i forget to get her cookbooks.
thanks for the reminder!!! 🙂
i only have one. it’s all about the regions of Italy. I stick mainly to the south lol. you know, Mister’s family being Sicilian and all. haha. actually, i just prefer the food from the south, honestly.
Yay I can’t wait. I want to try making bean veggie burgers sometime.
bean burgers can be sooooo good! you just can’t expect it to taste like a hamburger.
I know. I had one in a restaurant several months ago and that was exactly my comment. I don’t much like hamburgers anyway.
then maybe you will love bean burgers! i have to compare this recipe to my other Bittman book. i wonder if it’s different at all. but i did use his How To Cook Everything Vegetarian book to make bean burgers last summer and they were delicious. I’m pretty sure I used his recipe.
I have that book! I am looking now. There are several recipes. One is vegan without the egg so maybe that one is it.
most likely…i tend to avoid eggs. they won’t hurt me in baking, but they are so easy to replace that when i make and bake things myself, i substitute the egg.
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The new issue of vegetarian times has several recipes from Bittman’s new book, including the burgers. The roasted vegetable sandwiches with zesty white bean spread sounds interesting.
Are you going to try them? I want to make zesty white bean spread. 🙂
It’s on my list with the 500 other recipes I want to make. 🙂
well what are you waiting for! haha…. 😉
A cure for laziness? 🙂 sometimes it’s just easier to make old things. You need to inspire me. Ha.
Maybe I’ll make a Julie Challenge. 😉
I love my How to Cook Everything Vegetarian Book. I am a fan of bean burgers but haven’t tried the ones in the book yet.
I still have to revisit it to remind myself whether those were the ones I made last summer and liked so much.
I’ve had these black bean burgers dining out at a local restaurant and they are tasty! They posted the recipe after it was published in the local paper per request:
http://www.lucky32.com/Recipes/blackbeancakes.htm
TABASCO! i will make those. holy moly.