Bean Burgers and Baked Plum Tomatoes

What? I like cooking now? How did this happen?

Today I went to Macey's with Maddy and bought fixin's for nomnoms. I feel like food is beginning to take over my life and I like that. It's so much easier than engineering.


Bean Burgers

Ingredients:

• 1 15 oz. can kidney beans
• 1 15 oz. can black beans
• 1/4 cup corn
• 1/3 cup breadcrumbs
• 2 TBS olive oil
• 1/4 cup chopped onions
• 1 egg

What to do: 

Put olive oil in a pan heated to medium heat.

Drain and rinse kidney beans and black beans and mash them up in a bowl (My mashing was not the best. But I'm kinda lazy and it still tasted good). Then, add breadcrumbs, corn, egg, and onion. Divide the mixture into four parts and mold four patties with your hands. Then cook in the pan until brown on both sides. 

SO GOOD I LOVED IT SO MUCH. I can tell that this is going to be my latest food obsession because it is so easy and good.

Baked Plum Tomatoes

Ingredients:

• 4 plum tomatoes, halved lengthwise
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
• 2 Tbs breadcrumbs
• 1/2 tsp mixed dry herbs, like thyme, marjoram, oregano, and basil
• 1 Tbs olive oil
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp pepper

What to do:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees fahrenheit (just in case you were in a celsius or even kelvin mood today). Sliver off the skin side of the tomatoes so that they will lie flat in a baking dish.

In a small bowl, toss together everything listed except for the tomatoes. Mound this mixture on top of each tomato half.

Bake until tomatoes are soft and topping is crisp and browned. The recipe I used told me to bake them for 20 minutes, but mine were brown in 6. So who knows what the real deal is.

Tonight I am going to a Norweigan dinner and then going to a BYU fashion show with Laurie (Gerhard's sister is in it - otherwise there is no way we would go haha). I am secretly very excited to make fun of all the Provo fashionistas. Or maybe I will become one, you know, since I have a blog now.