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Has come a return to familiar veggies. Our basket of late has been filled with things like tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, potatoes, and onions. Things that, while delicious, we have always eaten. Since we have been using the unfamiliar things in the basket as a reason to seek out new recipes, to boldly go where we have never gone before, we were in fact, a bit bewildered about what to do with these old school veggies.

 

So we've been revisiting some greatest hits. We've made potato and rosemary pizza, roasted veggie lasagna, fajitas, veggie shish-ka-bobs on the grill with corn, gazpacho. 

 

Here are a couple of things we've done:

 

Potato Salad

I got this recipe from my friend Christin, who knows how to cook for a party. It's a potato salad with no mayo. I freaking hate mayo and will never eat it, but this is just as good as a picnic and will not possibly kill you if left in the sun. We used up a bunch of potatoes we had gotten, some new potatoes, some purple potatoes, and some red potatoes.

 

2 lbs small potatoes boiled, cooled, and then cut up

1 cucumber peeled and diced

1 red pepper diced

1 bunch spring onions diced

4 oz feta cheese

3 tbsp dill

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1/3 olive oil

1/3 red wine vinager

 

Last night we used the last of our beets up, along with some left over corn on the cob and potato salad from a barbeque we held Sunday. We made beet burgers. They sound funny, but are yummy.

The original recipe is from recipezaar:

1/2 grated beets

1/2 grated carrots

1/8 grated onion

1/4 cooked brown rice

1/4 roasted sunflower seeds

1/8 cup toasted sesame seeds

1 egg white

1/2 tsp soy sauce

3/4 tbsp flour

Preheat oven to 350

mix ingredients in large bowl and chill for 30 minutes

form into patties 1/2 inch thick

bake on cookie sheet covered with cooking spray for 30 minutes (no turning necessary)

Here are the changes we made (besides scaling down the recipe)

We used quinoa instead of brown rice and sun butter instead of sunflower seeds. We didn't have sunflower seeds on hand, but the one review of the recipe said that the patties didn't come together very well. Since the sunbutter has the sticky consistancy of peanut butter, this was not a problem for us. The quinoa was delicious, nutty, and FULL of protein.

 

All in all, very tasty.

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