Black Bean Patties with Pineapple Guacamole

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50% hit 50% miss for me. The black bean patties were very bland. It seemed like they had a lot of great flavourful ingredients packed in there, but they came out tasting very beany. But, to save the day, pineapple guacamole comes out of nowhere! It was delicious and when piled 3" high on your boring bean patty it becomes an awesome meal.

One note on the flax in the burgers. This was a new thing for me, but instead of beating the water and flax to make it gooey, Walters just sits the flax in the water, by the time you're ready to add it to the patties it's turned into a gelantanous blob of awesome. I'm going to remember that one!

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Leeka - 11th July 2011
It's funny, I've yet to find a black bean burger recipe that is really outstanding. I think I'm going to have to invent my own. The pineapple guacamole sound intriguing!

Jayme - 11th July 2011
Have you tried the ones from Vcon yet? I haven't, but my friend Leanne did and she really loved them.

Leeka - 11th July 2011
Yup, I've tried them and I thought they were good but lacking seasoning. Not outstanding. I will probably make those ones again and bump up the salt and other seasonings.

Jayme - 11th July 2011
Well then you'd have hated these because I fed Leanne some and she said they were much blander than the ones she made. :( They were full of cilantro and garlic so I really don't know why that was lost. I guess black beans are just a really overepowering beany kind of flavour.

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Leeka - 11th July 2011
Ha! Okay, good to know. I've been eyeing this book. Your reviews are making me greedy for more vegan cookbooks!

Jayme - 11th July 2011
How is that even possible, you have so many more cookbooks than me!!!

Leeka - 11th July 2011
I do? It doesn't seem like it. I guess I just want what you're cooking and eating, LOL!

I'm a greedy, greedy girl! I just LOVE cookbooks.

Jayme - 11th July 2011
Yes, you have exactly 47 more cookbooks. I keep track of these things!

I have to say I'm not a huge fan of this cookbook. Cookbookeer is the only reason I'm making stuff out of it now. I've had it since it came out (I won it from firstreads!) and hadn't made a single thing frrom it. It's really snobby. And uses a lot of things that are hard to get here, which I don't mind most of the time, but paired with a snobby cookbook it bothers me more. Also her blurbs about the recipe really bug me. Like that salad I reviewed actually said "makes a great compliment to grilled chicken or fish". Why is that in her vegan cookbook? I don't get it.

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Leeka - 12th July 2011
Well, not all of my cookbooks are vegan. Maybe only half? I don't use the old ones so much anymore but I could probably find lots of good recipes in them if I looked.

That's really nutty that she would put a comment like that in a vegan cookbook. I don't think I'll be buying it. I may check it out from the library out of curiousity though. I heard it won some big award so I thought it might be a good one. I like friendly cookbooks, definitely not snobby ones.

Jayme - 12th July 2011
I do like that the focus is on vegetable dishes and that it's organised seasonally. So those are two big pluses. It's definitely wprth checking out from the library, you might like it more than I do! And I'm intent on trying some more of her recipies to give the book a fair shot. Tonight is wheatberry salad, but without currants...they aren't readily available here.

I've gotten two cookbooks now because they were a big deal and have been disappointed with both. The other one is the Conscious Cook. Haven't been able to get interested in making anything from it even though it looks so pretty. Maybe awards aren't all they're cracked up to be?

Leeka - 12th July 2011
Thanks for the feedback about both books.

I heard that the Conscious Cook uses a lot of Gardein product and I don't like it that much so I'm not really interested in buying it. I will probably borrow both books from the library one day.

Jayme - 12th July 2011
Mmm only 3 chicken recioes and one beef. I don't think it's particularily excessive and would be easily subbed with homemade seitan. My problem with that cookbook is more elusive and might be overcome if I'd just get off my lazy bum and make something from it.

Jayme - 12th July 2011
Not to mention eveything in it sounds really deilicious and has full colour photos. I have the orange, belgian endive, and quinoa salad marked out to try...but I'm going to have to think of something to replace champagne vinnegar with.

Leeka - 12th July 2011
Oh you're right, that's not too bad. I thought there would be a lot more than 4 recipes with Gardein products. Things are looking up! I do love books with beautiful photos, I mean who doesn't?

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