Good morning! Thank you for all your sweet comments about me being a cooking machine! My kitchen often looks like that since it is so small. I think it would always be a mess if my husband didn’t actually enjoy cleaning up after me. (It may have something to do with all the food he gets to eat!)
Yesterday I didn’t make it to yoga because I needed to sleep more. I couldn’t fall asleep Sunday night and I just didn’t get enough sleep to wake up at 5:15-5:30 to go to yoga. I ended up waking up and doing Jillian Michael’s Boost Your Metabolism and then going to work. I wanted to make a juice before I left, but I just didn’t have enough time. Do you find you are ever late when you are going somewhere you don’t necessarily want to go? That is SO me!
When I got home a did a 20 minute yoga download (Baptiste Power Yoga 3). I am just exploring yogadownload.com and I LOVE it. I am thinking of buying a subscription for a month and see how much I use it. The 20 minute quick yoga podcasts are quick, but they are SO good.
While I was in Lancaster, PA, I found these Boomi bars at the local food store in their health section. I bought these two. Has anyone ever seen/had them before? I liked the ingredients because the list was short and they only have about 200 calories per bar. I’ll let you know how they are when I eat them this week!
Dinner yesterday needed to be a quick one. I had a faculty meeting after school so I didn’t have a ton of time after school. I decided I would make turkey burgers for Danny and bean burgers for me. The first time I made bean burgers I used black beans, so this time I went with chickpeas (leftover from making hummus) and red kidney beans.
I tried to be creative and I threw in some of the juice pulp from the juice I made when I got home. It was mostly carrots and a little bit of spinach. I also put in some red onion and a handful of baby spinach. I pulsed it in the processor. (I also snuck some of the juice pulp in Danny’s turkey burgers and he had NO clue, until I told him!)
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These look like they came out great, Nicole! I lovee homemade veggie/bean burgers. I can't believe I ever liked those store-bought ones! (well, at least Boca and Morngstar – haven't given other brands a chance yet!)
I saw those Boomi Bars on another blog yesterday – and wanted one so bad! haha. I'm trying to remember if I saw them at the co-op last I was there or not!
Have a great day
wow, that is so impressive! I need to work on making veggie burgers from scratch – I just never eat them because I don't want to buy them frozen but am a bit scared to try making them! Thanks for the recipe!
What a great idea! I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never made a bean burger before. They're so easy too!
Have a great day!
oh they look lovely…another one I have to try. I used to have tons of juice pulp in the freezer but ended up putting it in my compost bin…that's a good way to use it!
YAY! Another GF recipe to try! Thanks!!
i've never made homemade burgers before – i don't know why!!!
the burgers look awesome!!! and i am not a fan of sneaking foods in in general but for men, honestly to help them!! that's what we are doing, right! but to help them, sometimes you just gotta sneak and tell later. or never
And the boomi bars, have had one and i recall it to be delish!
what a great idea….I am wondering how the texture was, I love chickpea's reminds me of hummus?
Love the great combination.
I make a chickpea burger similar to this, only I add a little bit of sun dried tomatoes and low fat feta…I like the way the feta melts out a bit and get kind of crispy
Looks good going in and out of the processor!
Katherine
I'm so making these, they look amazing!
I love doing a mid week "salad bar" at home, where I lay out lettuce and spinach and then a ton of toppings like roasted red peppers, corn, betters, jalapenos etc. We each make up our own salads and everything left over gets stored away for lunch in tupperware.
Those burgers look awesome! Way to go using up that juice pulp! I'm pretty bad at saving mine for anything else…
My favorite quick dinner is definitely roasted veggies and quinoa– they both cook in roughly 20 minutes, and my husband and I love it!! So satisfying.
Wow these look delish! How many servings does the recipe make? It doesn’t seem like a hell of a lot but I wouldn’t want to make too many burgers and have it go to waste either!