Quinoa Burgers

http://www.halfbakedharvest.com/epic-crispy-quinoa-burgers-topped-sweet-potato-fries-beer-caramelized-onions-gruyere/

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Epic Crispy Quinoa Burgers
Topped with Sweet Potato Fries,
Beer Caramelized Onions + Gruyere

Prep Time: 20 minutes / Cook Time: 50 minutes

Yield: 4-5 Burgers

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Ingredients

Quinoa Burgers

• 2 cups cooked red quinoa
• 1 cup cannellini beans, mashed
• 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 1 clove garlic, grated
• 1 teaspoon chipotle chile powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon peper
• 3/4 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 of your favorite burger buns

For just the patties -

In a bowl combine:

• the quinoa,
  
• mashed cannellini beans,
  
• bread crumbs,
  
• egg,
  
• garlic,
  
• chipotle chile powder,
  
• salt and pepper.

Mix well to moisten the ingredients and then:

• mix in the shredded cheddar cheese.
  

Mix well again and form into 4 or 5 equal burger patties.

In a skillet - add 1 tablespoon olive oil. Grab the quinoa burgers and cook until golden and crisp, about five minutes per side.

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The rest of the story...

• 4 eggs cooked to your liking, optional (but recommended)!

Sweet Potato Fries

• 4 medium sweet potatoes, cut into thin 1/2-inch thick strips
• 1/2 teaspoon chipotle chile powder
• 1/4-1/2 cayenne pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 4 tablespoon olive oil

Beer caramelized onions

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 large sweet onions, thinly sliced
• 1 cup beer (I used pumpkin beer)

Instructions

1. In a bowl combine the quinoa, mashed cannellini beans, bread crumbs, egg, garlic, chipotle chile powder, salt and pepper. Mix well to moisten the ingredients and then mix in the shredded cheddar cheese. Mix well again and form into 4 or 5 equal burger patties (I made 5). Place on a plate and put in the fridge.
2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
3. Place cut potatoes in a large bowl and drizzle with oil, chipotle chile powder, cayenne, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Gently toss with your hands or two spatulas to evenly coat. Spread on a baking sheet in one layer. Bake for 15-20 minutes, then flip and bake for 15-20 minutes more. You want the sweet potatoes to be crispy, but not burnt. If you want perfectly crisp fries I recommend spreading the sweet potatoes on a greased wire rack and baking them as directed above. But this way is a bit of a pain. Keep the sweet potato fries warm until ready to top on the burgers.
4. While the fries cook caramelize the onions. Heat large skillet. Add 1 tablespoon butter over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook about 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until softened.
5. At this point you want to slowly add the beer, let it cook into the onions, add more and let it cook. Do this until the 1 cup of beer is gone or the onions are caramelized to your liking and the beer has evaporated. Remove from the skillet and keep warm.
6. In the same skillet add 1 tablespoon olive oil. Grab the quinoa burgers and cook until golden and crisp, about five minutes per side. During the last minute or so of cooking add the Gruyere cheese, cover the pan and cook 2-3 minutes or until the cheese has melted. My burgers were not crumbly at all and very easy to flip.
7. To assemble the burgers, place each burger on a bun, top with equal amounts of caramelized onions and sweet potato fries. If desired add you egg. EAT!

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I am a rage-aholic, I just can't live without rageahol

From "I Am Furious (Yellow)" (S13E18)

An_Interesting_Form_Of_Murder

Cupcake Recipe with the French Buttercream Iceing

This cupcake recipe, with the French Buttercream -http://goo.gl/Z7EidI (add in seedless strawberry jam...)
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lemon-cupcake-with-blackberry-buttercream/


    1 cup white sugar
    1/2 cup butter
    2 eggs
    1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 cup low-fat milk
    1 lemon, juice and zest

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.

1. Cream sugar and 1/2 cup butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until fluffy.
2. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and mix 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract into mixture with the second egg.
3. Beat in flour and baking powder until thoroughly combined;
4. Beat in milk, lemon juice, and lemon zest to make a smooth batter.
5. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until cupcake edges are slightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.

Cool cupcakes completely

Top with the (strawberry jam added) French Buttercream -http://goo.gl/Z7EidI

EFFECTS OF PURE EVIL... On teddy bears...

From the Institute for Dangerous Research, Department of Mad Biology

TERATOGENIC EFFECTS OF PURE EVIL IN URSUS TEDDIUS DOMESTICUS

Protocols:

1. A sample of Pure Evil was obtained from the ruins of an exploded toaster in the south of England.
2. Pure Evil was administered, via drinking water, to pregnant laboratory teddy bears for the duration of their pregnancy (4 months).
3.  Dosage varied from 0 parts per million (ppm) to 1000ppm, titrating upwards by steps of 100ppm.
4. Offspring were euthanized and mounted for display.

Observations:

1. Pure Evil has strong teratogenic effects, with a tendency to produce asymmetry.
2. These effects vary widely, without a clear progression along a phenotypic path.
3. At higher doses, there can be inclusions of tissue from other species (kingdom? phyla? We have yet to identify that purple wiggly stuff in specimen #7)

Notes:

1. Specimen #9: This lump of discolored stuffing was miscarried at 2 months.
2. At the dosage of 1000ppm, pregnancy appeared to be reabsorbed before the two month mark. Administration of Pure Evil at the same dosage continued. By the 3 month mark, subject developed dental hypertrophy, ocular luminescence, and extreme behavioral changes. At 3 months 2 weeks, subject chewed through the steel bars of its cage, after which it killed two graduate students. Subject was euthanized with a sustained burst of automatic weapons fire.

Conclusions:

Pure Evil's teratogenic effects at even low dosages indicate that it should be treated as an extremely hazardous material and every effort should be made to prevent its entering the water table and the food chain. While it has the potential at higher doses to be used in the development of environmental contamination in the event of escape, strongly skew the cost-benefit analysis in the direction of HOLY CRAP DON'T USE THIS STUFF.

Right out of the womb

That most people encounter a forced religious / spiritual perspective right out of the womb... It becomes the first filter they look through, in order to process reality.


The less InQuisitive ©®ᵀᴹ (lower I.Q. http://goo.gl/kHmBg ) are not only less able to step out side of that perspective, but are more inclined to cling to it at all costs. The perspective goes from a looking glass to a by-proxy / default hiding place (http://goo.gl/rzet5).

For these people, it is far easier to unquestioningly call something a ghost if one has already been told that it must be a ghost.

Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
what you need is someone strong to use you..
like me,
like me.

If you want to get your soul to heaven,
trust in me.
Don't judge or question.
You are broken now,
but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.

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Religion is not a prerequisite for self-improvement. #prerequisite

Certain philosophical processes may come in to play... But - that in-and-of-its-self is not religion.

Admittedly most of the popular philosophies have been codified, edified and turned in to an administered product.

I point to Zen-Buddhism as being a prime example. The Secular approach has great potential for helping a person to gain a cleaner and clearer perspective. The non-secular version has taken a simple concept and turned it in to a religious practice that convinces the individual to look outward for something that resides within.

The crux being that if you have been told from an early age that deism is the extent of existence, it very unlikely that such a perspective is capable of thinking outside that box... Thus all answers related to avarice or adversity (and everything in between) must fit through the buttonhole that deism creates. Few who live with that perspective are even capable of understanding its limitations.

Those who understand that it is unreasonable to take religion literally, are by default, assuming at least some degree of secularism.

So secular vs. non-secular. Where the secular recognize their choice, they also recognize the 'choice' that the non-secular makes, and why. 

The same cannot (always) be said in reverse. The non-secular, not only are unable to recognize their perspective, they are also unable to fathom the 'why' of how come they have such a perspective to begin with...

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Here is an example of an inherently flawed criticism / observation - #flawed

Atheism - The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason which then turned into dinosaurs.

It is sarcastic... Which is always nice to see... But its wit is still an Argument from Ignorance.

It is saying that if you don't immediately know the answer... Then the answer must therefore be supernatural!

Spirituality at-large relies (almost solely) on its adherents completely ignoring the collision created when estimating a line of reasoning against the 'Argument from Ignorance'.

Contextually, and in it simplest form, it is this: I don't know... It must be ~god~

Seeing the inanity of this approach does not even require invoking baseline pragmatism. It is self-evident.

Though, the Spiritualist and Deist don't even realize that this is what they are captivated by.

While those of us who are not mesmerized...

I read the news today, oh boy!

 

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