Black Bean Burger

The Patty 

16oz. or 15.5oz of rinse black beans 

1/2 cup oats or rice cereal (gluten free)

1 egg

olive oil for pan

S&P to taste or a burger seasoning you like, even cumin is nice.

In food processor put oats or rice cereal in and pulse about 3 times, add half the black beans , egg and seasoning pulse about 6 to 7 times. Add the rest of the beans and oat/rice mixture to a bowl mix thoroughly together and with clean slightly wet hands form 4 patties the place on plate an put in fridge to let them setup about an hour.  When ready add olive oil to saute pan on medium heat cook patties 3-4 minutes a side, they should have a slightly brown crisp look.

Your toppings can be what ever would like from cheese, avocado, salsa, onion, pickles, jerk sauce etc..

served on whole wheat buns, romaine lettuce or a gluten free bun. 

ENJOY!

What's Your Favorite Eggnog Recipe?

Since it is the holidays I was wondering what is your favorite eggnog recipes? Heck what about your favorite holiday recipe?  Please leave a comment and share your recipe if you wish.

Mayo and Beer

I am sitting and Stumbling at B&N after my Interview and stumbled across this analogy of what's important in life. I agree with it entire in fact loved it so much I wanted to share the link of where I discovered it.  Mayo and Beer

I Love a Great Gyro

I had a craving today and that craving was a gyro (yeer-oh) a great place to go just happens to be in the neighborhood walking distance (big smile on my face).  The place is call Gyropolis I actually go quite a bit however today I thought I would share a picture and a bit more.  Here's the local Urbanspoon rating 96%.  I give it 100% for my satisfaction factor. 

Open Faced Caprese Sandwich.

I love mozzarella, tomato, basil and balsamic the classic caprese salad. I just wanted it a bit hardier one day so I made this on ciabatta.

Three Citrus Spicy Shrimp Pasta

Was hungry and all I had was an orange, lemon and a lime. I had shrimp in the freezer and pasta in the cupboard. Grab the pepper flakes, sugar and salt & pepper with butter and a touch of EVOO. Squeezed all the juices from the fruit into the bowl added salt & pepper, sugar, pepper flakes then marinated the shrimp for about 10 minutes. I poured the marinade into a sauté pan reduce the marinade to a nice citrus sauce. Realized I had some artichokes and threw them and the shrimp in to sauté with EVOO and butter and a pinch of s&p. Then the pasta I had cooked during the marinading then added the sauce. It was so good.

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Eric Wait https://www.advocare.com/09102943/

Ham and Swiss Quiche #food #recipe

Preheat oven to 425 degrees

Beat together

9 eggs

3/4 cup small dice ham

3/4 cup small dice Swiss cheese

2 diced roma tomatoes

1 about 1/2 cup small onion diced

1 to 2 jalapeno deveined and diced

1/4 chopped cilantro or parsley

Put filling in a 9 inch pie crust homemade or store bought which ever you feel comfortable with.

Bake for 15 minutes at 425 then reduce heat to 350 and bake for another 25 minutes


The crust I used was store bought just to kill some time.  



Eric Wait

https://www.advocare.com/09102943/

Braised BBQ Beef

These are so good they need nothing else, unless you want to go Memphis style by adding slaw

@epwait voila! braised beef bbq. I shared it with friends earlier and they all loved it. Thanks chef :)pic.twitter.com/5o1cgWDW via @edo_au

3 pound chuck roast
2 medium onions
1 28 ounce can of tomatoes
4 cloves of Garlic minced
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup malt vinegar
2 1/4 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce or your homemade BBQ
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

1. Caramelize onions in a large heavy pot add garlic when oinion are caramelized. 
2. Ad beef to the pot cut into 4 inch cubes then ad tomatoes and have the can again of water to get all the tomato juice. Braise the beef until its about to fall apart.
3. Now ad rest of ingredient and cook until all the beef is falling apart on low heat and the it thickens up.

This will take 4 to 5 hours to cook perfectly

Balsamic Honey Glazed Filet Mignon

1 6 oz Filet
1/2 teaspoon Crushed black pepper
salt to taste
1/4 balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon olive oil

Heat saute pan with oil, when hot salt and pepper filet then place filet in hot skillet cook on one side for two minutes then flip and cook for another two minutes.  When ready poor honey and balsamic mixture in pan brush the balsamic over the filet until balsamic is a nice glaze over steak. Your done all you need is a nice vegetable to go with.

Whisky Onions

Okay here is one of my favorite complements to red meat, pork, or wild game. Whiskey Onion recipe is so good I make it every time I grill. I even make Whiskey Onions when I make meat loaf for my Whiskey Onion Meat Loaf.
What you need.
5 to 6 onions about 1 lb each Vadalia onions are my favorite for this recipe
3/4 cup of red wine
1 cup whiskey what ever brand you like.
1/2 cup brown surger
2  Tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespons oil

1. Slice your onions as thin as you like then in a large pan melt your butter and add the oil. Then add your onions and carmelize on mediun heat to a deep brown but not burn onion.
2. When you got the onions to a nice color add rest of you ingredients. Reduce the Whiskey and wine to almost nothing.

Now you have a great onion side for steak, burgers, chops. You can also take and add the onions to a favorite meatloaf recipe.
Couple other things you can add to the Whiskey Onions

1. Jalapeno’s as about 1 to 3 or if you like heat add more
2. Mushrooms about 1 lb.
3.  

Whiskey Onions

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Okay here is one of my favorite complements to red meat, pork, or wild game. Whiskey Onion recipe is so good I make it every time I grill. I even make Whiskey Onions when I make meat loaf for my Whiskey Onion Meat Loaf.
What you need.

5 to 6 onions about 1 lb each Vadalia onions are my favorite for this recipe

3/4 cup of red wine

1 cup whiskey what ever brand you like.

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard

1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

salt and pepper to taste

2 Tablespoons butter

2 Tablespoons oil

1. Slice your onions as thin as you like then in a large pan melt your butter and add the oil. Then add your onions and carmelize on medium heat to a deep brown but not burn onion.

2. When you got the onions to a nice color add rest of you ingredients. Reduce the Whiskey and wine to almost nothing.

Now you have a great onion side for steak, burgers, chops. You can also take and add the onions to a favorite meatloaf recipe.
Couple other things you can add to the Whiskey Onions

1. Jalapeno's add about 1 to 3 or if you like heat add more

2. Mushrooms

Add both while carmelizing onions
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