over the past few months, i’ve been lucky enough to get some great recipe ideas from friends and family. case in point: a great friend of mine sent me a text telling me that i HAD to try this recipe because she absolutely loved it. and she was so right – these burgers are absolutely fabulous.
i love spaghetti. and i love making my own sauce. but mike and i do not agree on the type of sauce we favor. i like mine exactly like this recipe i posted a few years ago, with cubes of tofu and grated carrots and zucchini. while a little on the watery side, i love it because it melts right into the pasta. mike, on the other hand, always wants a more chunky spaghetti sauce that is thick enough to stay separate from the pasta and he prefers seitan to tofu. so, we’ve done some experimenting and finally came up with this recipe that we both love!
i’m going to let you in on a little secret. although mike and i love making new recipes and fancy meals, life gets really busy. and when this happens, we have a taco night.
you guys, i’m buried under loads of final papers and projects. but i couldn’t wait to share this recipe with you – it’s so good! during the fall and winter, we make roasted vegetables almost every week with a mix of beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and an onion tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper, and serve it over warm polenta (see the 2012 amendment at the end of the post).
i don’t think mike and i have ever made burgers at home before. we’ve sampled many kinds of store–bought and restaurant–made vegetarian burgers, of course. and tried all kinds of fake hot dogs and sausages. our absolute favorite are field roast’s apple-sage sausages. they’re sooo good.
