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Here’s a picture(*) of a veggie burger DW made.
The basil leaves are from the garden 🙂 I have to figure out how to bake the burger buns myself. I believe the store bought ones are made of plastic.
(*) I finally found a very easy way to transfer pictures to the blog, so expect more pictures in the future.
Despite some plastic/styrofoam… Yum!
Looks good!
The bean-based burgers you see in stores are costly when compared to raw materials to make your own. Recipes are available on the net. I make a big batch of black bean burgers and freeze them so they are available when I want something convenient.
what sort of oven do you use for baking in the RV?
@Seth – We have a normal gas stove with four burners and oven except it’s smaller. If you put 4 1.5 gallon pots on the burners they would touch each other.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/spinach-bread/ Enjoy!
I recently had my first portabello mushroom burger – absolutely delicious.
It looks yum but I probably won’t eat one meal a day with only this!
Basic french bread recipe for all bread
3 parts flour (cups)
1 part water (cup)
1 envelope yeast (packet)
Mix, knead, let rise and bake in oven at 400 deg F.
Experiment with feel of dough. More water for softer “crumb”. Add oil for softer “crumb”. Milk (Or milk powder) makes a softer “crumb”
(Crumb refers to chewiness. Softest is like American white bread. Whole wheat flour needs more liquid.
You are frugal. Yeast is kind of expensive. Consider making a “baby”: less flour Maybe two cups . Mix and let it rise a “long time”. Store in refrigerator. Use half for a new batch of bread, add flour and water to the baby and let rise again. You never need buy yeast again.
Those look good. We may do the beanburgers in the freezer mentioned above too, as another way of eating the dried beans we go through so often now.
Pictures will really add a bit to this blog, though you do have one of those I read even without them, there are plenty that are only good for the pictures 🙂
Off topic…I’ve been enjoying reading your blog, but wonder if there is any way to invest so-called emergency-fund money that pays more than the lower interest currently being paid or in laddered CDs?
Yeah, you need some more vegetable protein to go with that…. a bean burger is probably up your alley. There is a really good brand of tofu burger out now, too. I forget the name. Gone are the days when all veggie burger patties sucked.
The cheapest buns are crap. Spring for a better quality whole wheat bun with sesame seeds and the experience will be so much better.
…or buy one of the “loaf” breads, such as Acme sells, toast, and slice it. We use the country bread and the whole wheat loaves.
Drop the bun; seriously there is no need for it!
In fact buying a white loaf or bun is very much the opposite of frugal, as the product contains nothing your body neeeds, apart from those chemically added.
A much cheaper way to achieve the same effect would be to consume a cup of sugar, a vitamin pill and a small quantity of corn oil. This way you have the added bonus of not getting any Gluten, the sugars taking a little less time to get into your blood steam and some extra chemically synthesised vitamin goodness.
Tom’s recipe creates a nutritional appropriate sort of bread if using an unprocessed flour.
uoguelph.ca/news/2008/07/sourdough_bread.html
westonaprice.org/transition/whiteflour.html
