anywayz, i have been meaning to make tofu burgers for a long long time! I have actually been exeprimenting a little with vegie burgers and even vegan burgers for years. I haven't been totally focused but i want to be at the level where vegetarian and vegan friends go "oh man, i hope jade makes some of those awesome (x) burgers soon, i love them more than my life!"... and i think i am getting there my friends...
So as you should know I am in love with a Vegan Restaurant in Adelaide called "Vego n Lovin It" which I have written about but which i am admittedly too lazy to link you to. Seriously, go back to the start and swim through a sensual sea of all my posts until you find it. You will not be disappointed. Anyway, this place does the best burgers. The patties are so big and they are as solid as a meat patty. BUT HOW?!?! This is the question i ask myself every time i make a batch of vego burgers. I put them on a bun with all the trimmings then bite into it and watch the pattie compress into a thin pancake and ooze out the sides of the bun. It is depressing. I obviously dont care TOO much otherwise i would do some research but i wanted to make some tofu burgers like the man in Adelaide. This recipe i found online and changed it around. It seems like i do that alot, perhaps so i can call it my own... but no that's not it. i just didnt have a few of the ingredients and added extra. lol. i am an alchemist in the kitchen. nyessss.
omg i am off track. Anyway somehow after Josh's huge bday party on Saturday, and only 5 hours sleep including a post-clean up nap on the couch while watching the Labrynth i somehow had the energy and enthusiasm to make tofu burgers and marinated vegie skewers for a BBQ dinner at Nash's. So i went to Coles and picked up a few essentials and came home to get cracking! This is how they turned out, and the recipe follows:
Ingredients:1 cup bulgur
2 cups water
Optional: a few jalapeño pepper slices
1 block firm tofu, roughly chopped
1 medium yellow onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 – 2 eggs
1 1/2 cups bread crumbs or quick cooking oats or a mixture of both
1 Tbsp fresh rosemary, minced
Optional: handful of baby spinach leaves
salt & pepper to taste
Splash of lime juice
1 tsp canola oil
1-2 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1-2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Optional: Chili Sauce
fine cornmeal / polenta
salt & pepper to taste
Method:
In saucepan, add water, bulgur and some salt. Bring to boil. Lower to simmer until soft and fluffy. When done, set aside.
In small fry pan, sauté onions and garlic in oil until soft. Set aside.
In bowl of food processor add everything except cornmeal. Whir until a small crumb forms and everything is mixed properly.
Form into patties of the size you want (smaller is better here for handling purposes).
Pour cornmeal/polenta and some salt & pepper onto small plate. Coat patties and transfer to hot pan with a little oil in the bottom.
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Wow. Yummmm! Let's see, to judge if it is good or not you have to get people to test them. So me, Josh, Evan, Boucher and Jess all said they were really nice. I believe the word DELICIOUS was even thrown in there! That's good enough for me :)
But seriously at our party on Saturday night...shit got real man. We have these neighbours behind and over one house who ALWAYS party. Mid-week... weekend... it makes no difference to the party house! So my friends all laughed when they rocked up to see that the party over the back was in full swing yet again and in direct competition with our party. That's right... we were competing for BEST PARTY awards of the neighbourhood.
So around 3am when most people had gone home there were a few of us inside and a few outside, when Simon comes in going "Jade theres a guy in your backyard, he just jumped the fence!" and i got pretty freaked out as you can imagine. I went out and it was this Canadian dude called Tony and he was mega drunk, and they sent him over as sentinal to see whats going on over here. Anyway he started telling us that we should get to know our neighbours and jump the fence sometime or host a BBQ or SOMETHING. Then he told me that my neighbours next door were at the party house RIGHT NOW partying with their back neighbours. what the fuck, how do they even strike up a relationship...? so now i feel like a black sheep. like unfriendly. But it's awkward. Until now the nighbours have made no indication of wanting a friendship so i wasn't going to force one in case they just plain DONT WANT ONE. But obviously now the ball is in our court. the giant awkward ball.
Now i have to wait until they are having a party before i can go over there... i cant just jump the fence in the day time and knock on their door, cos i would freak out if that happened to me. Actually when i was in Year 7 we moved to Williamstown and the kids from next door jumped the fence and stood at our sliding glass door waiting for us to open it. We were still carrying furniture in. Freaks. I dont even know if i WANT to go over there and meet them, but i feel pressured now. They have kids and stuff so who knows if we even have anything to talk about. That's so closed minded of me huh? whatever. conundrum 5000.
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