Question of the Week - What are some of your favorite ...

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sometimes for my cousins annual BBQ I make my Kicked Up Salsa dancing

Macaroni salad, some times a do a tomato, cucumber, mozzarella salad, this year

I

am thinking about bringing my red bean and spinach burgers.

 

I am going to Chicago in August for our annual family picnic I am planning

on making my red bean and spinach burgers and at least one other burger not

sure what yet still experimenting.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

 

 

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          Years ago, I had a well-liked recipe that used cooked rice, marinated

with vinegar, a bit of veg oil, some chopped green onion and , I believe,

celery.  The original recipe called for adding to this cooked chicken, mixed

with mayonnaise. Of course, I've changed it.  I recently dug up the original

recipe and substituted cooked beans (cannelini was what I used, but almost any

bean will probably do) for the chicken in it.  I also added chopped almonds,

because the name of the salad is " Crunchy...(it's Bean, now) Salad " . 

 

         It was good.  I liked it as well or better than I liked the " old " way

to make it.  DH, who is terribly skeptical of any " salad " made with BEANS, let

alone with marinated RICE--tried some  on a bed of salad greens and admitted,

" This tastes good! "   He wasn't going to go all out and ask for seconds, but I

was pleased that he actually tried it and gave it his approval.

 

     This salad would be my likely first choice of something to take to a

potluck, picnic or whatever.  It tastes crisp, crunchy, and, I think, is very

satisfying to eat--filling, cool, but not heavy.

 

      The other " favorite " food I might take (and have taken to share at a

potluck a few times recently) is a batch of mixed baked beans.  This is another

adaptation of an original recipe that called for added meat...but it is really

good with just the beans.  I try to find several kinds of beans that are

different colors, sizes and shapes--it really doesn't matter which kinds are

used.  They get cooked until they are really tender and then I mix up a bunch of

stuff (just sort of " cooking by nose and taste " ) to make it sweet/tangy/almost

" barbecue-y " flavored.  It gets some onion, hickory smoke liquid (or flavored

hickory smoke salt), some brown sugar, honey, molasses, cider vinegar, mustard,

some ketchup (organic!), maybe some Tabasco sauce or hot pepper powder...I just

play with it until I like the flavor.

 

         The left-over " barbecue/baked beans " can be yummy spooned warm on a bun

like a sloppy joe sandwich.  I have also plopped a blob of it on top of a salad

or rolled some into a tortilla for a " sweet, smoky " burrito-like thingie.  (You

can even dip it with chips!)  I love having this stuff in the fridge to just

heat up and have some the next day or two for lunch or a snack!  And my DH

is VERY fond of these beans!  So easy to make, so inexpensive and so tasty!

 

Those are my tow " options " that I usually think of for potlucks.  I am enjoying

seeing what some others have ideas for this!

 

--Laura B., in Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

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In a message dated 8/7/2008 3:23:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

jtwigg writes:

 

Question of the Week - It's summer time and time to enjoy the outdoors

more.

 

What are some of your favorite picnic's to make and take on outings to the

park, ball game, outdoor music concert, backyard, road trip(love rest area

picnic tables), boating?

 

It will be fun and inspiring, for us all, to see different menus with

recipes and hear how you and where you enjoy your outdoor picnic's.

 

 

 

 

I was at a BBQ yesterday usually there are several other vegetarians,

however when I arrived I found out I was the only vegetarian, I made my red bean

and spinach burgers and my black bean burgers, they were a hit. I brought 19

burgers and came home with 3.

 

 

 

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Can you post the recipes for those burgers? I'd love to try them. Thanks!

 

 

Claudia in RI

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8/10/2008 8:50:58 AM

 

Re: Question of the Week - What are some of your

favorite ...

 

 

In a message dated 8/7/2008 3:23:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

jtwigg writes:

 

Question of the Week - It's summer time and time to enjoy the outdoors

more.

 

What are some of your favorite picnic's to make and take on outings to the

park, ball game, outdoor music concert, backyard, road trip(love rest area

picnic tables), boating?

 

It will be fun and inspiring, for us all, to see different menus with

recipes and hear how you and where you enjoy your outdoor picnic's.

 

 

 

 

I was at a BBQ yesterday usually there are several other vegetarians,

however when I arrived I found out I was the only vegetarian, I made my red

bean

and spinach burgers and my black bean burgers, they were a hit. I brought

19

burgers and came home with 3.

 

 

 

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