Veggie Sunday Dinner, November 21 2010
Posted on November 24th, 2010
A few weeks ago I decided that I would open up my Sunday night vegetarian dinners to my friends. This gives me a chance to cook for large groups, challenge myself with new recipes and hang out with people I enjoy at least once a week. I plan on documenting my Sunday nights in this blog alongside the technical crap.
In future posts I hope to have more descriptions and photos of the food, but to start things off, here are the details from last Sunday:
Theme: American
Guests: Jen (myself), Jesse, Norma, Dan, Jen (other Jen), Mikey, (Pilsen) David, Kathy
Menu: Veggie Burgers w/ homemade refrigerator pickles and smoked gouda, mustard greens, potato salad and sundaes (sundae fixings provided by Norma)
Recipes:
Potato Salad: This is what I did, very roughly (anyone who watches me cook knows that I’m not much of a measurer if I’m not trying out a new recipe): chopped up, boiled and cooled 4 big russet potatoes, mixed together in separate bowl: 1 cup(ish) mayo, a bunch of yellow mustard, maybe about 3 tbsps – until it reached the level of yellow I wanted, 2 stalks celery sliced thin, a few tsps of white balsamic vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, salt and pepper to taste, a few tbsp each of chopped fresh parsley and fresh dill, 1/2 red onion chopped small. Mixed those things and then tossed with potatoes. Threw in fridge and stirred every 1/2 hour or so.
Refrigerator Pickles: I love making these to have around, and they are fairly versatile. I sliced up a cucumber left over from last Sunday’s veggie gyro dinner super thin on the mandolin along with one jalepeno and 1/2 red onion also sliced on the mandolin, put them in a bowl with about 2 or 3 cloves of minced garlic, about 1 tsp sugar, several tbsps of apple cider vinegar (emptied my bottle, might have put in more) and a good handful of dill that I tore off a giant stalk acquired from Stanleys during gyro week. This all went in a bowl that I topped off with water. I think in this case, the more vinegar the better, but about 1/2 and 1/2 water and vinegar seems to work perfectly. These turned out super spicy and very tasty.
Veggie Burgers: Here is the recipe I used. After reading the comments, I added in the oatmeal and it was still very thin. I couldn’t really form it into patties and ended up making the burgers “sloppy” style. Overall, I loved the flavor and thought it went great with bbq sauce, smoked gouda (for the non-vegans), my pickles and fancy tomato from whole foods. However, I’m going to continue searching for a veggie burger recipe that is better. It tasted good but I can mix together rice and beans and toss them on a bun any day.
I might also post some previous Sunday recipes, but who knows! This coming Sunday I’ll be in Philly eating at @jesteria’s parent’s house, so the next Veggie Sunday meal won’t happen until a week after that.
Bon Appetit!
Stander
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