Yesterday I randomly clicked on a link for Low Calorie Budget Meals (oh-so-exciting, I know) and the only thing that piqued my interest was mention of black bean burgers. I've never had one but I knew I had a couple cans of black beans in my pantry as well as some toppings in the fridge. Dinner plan, check.
I looked up a couple of recipes to get an idea of how these would come together and then decided to loosely follow their guidelines.
Very simply all I had to do was drain a can of black beans, mashed 'em up with a fork, and combine with minced onion, salt, pepper, a bit of Goya Sazón (because I didn't have cumin), and some homemade whole wheat bread crumbs.
Formed two patties, put them on the stovetop grill pan on medium-high heat and cooked for about 7 minutes. Then I went to turn them and.... fail. The patties didn't hold up at all. Time for improvisation #2: transfer to a skillet. I actually let them cook about 10 minutes a side so that they formed a hard crust on the outside (yum).
In the meantime I made a carrot slaw from this week's CSA veggies. It was super easy. All I did was combine some shredded carrots with a quick lemon vinaigrette. The carrots were really sweet so the slight tartness of the lemon vinaigrette was nice.
As for the sick tomatoes, we just got an email from our CSA farm, Red Fire Farm, alerting us that about 2 acres of their 8 total acres of tomatoes have been struck by late blight. They've removed all of the infected plants and are hoping that the rest of their crop will not be affected. Keep your fingers crossed!
Just in case, I'll be monitoring Boris (and Natasha) very closely. They both already have a tomato or two growing. Let's hope they don't get sick as well.
Boris with his first tomato fruit (to the left of the flowers)
