http://www.myfoodgeek.com/2007/04/01/best-veggie-burgers-ever/
Apparently Marina looked up “best veggie burgers ever” and the search engine just really nailed it. These things are phenomenal, and there almost is not a thing to say about them besides get in the kitchen and put these things together pronto. The recipe looks strange, what with browning the burgers and then simmering them in stock, but I am yet to have a problem. And sit down to one of these or a really messy burger and crack open a home brew and damn.
Speaking of, we have our second batch of homebrew waiting patiently in the doorway to the basement, waiting for some priming sugar and a couple week vacation in the bottle before we start swallowing it. Our first batch was an 8%-8.5%(so the kit said, we didn’t bother with gravity stuff) ABV and was hoppier than all hell. A while back we started drinking most beer room temperature but the hops on this one calls for refrigeration. It still cuts trough the cold beer and commands like a conquerer. The hops was an 18% alpha acid Columbus, something I am not sure I have found on the label of any beer to date. I think Warrior hops is the only other that I know off the top of my head that is around the same alpha acid. And it was triple hops brewed(I guess Miller isn’t the only one, oh wait, ALL beer is triple hops brewed, or damn well should be) with the Columbus Hops.
I try not to be too much of a snob but when they guy next to use in the brewer’s supply store is buying hops with an alpha of 2% I wonder, “why bother?” We’ve got a Porter in the fermentor currently, two doses of Willamette 4% and one of Northern ranking at about 8%. ABV of about 5%, maybe a tad more. No, we are not putting together our own recipes yet, these are the great Brewer’s Best sets complete with malt extract, pelleted hops, and whole grains. The porter is rocking some crystal malt and some de-bittered chocolate malt, and I am excited to have brewed in one of my favorite beer styles. We were deep in a case of Guinness for a while, and moved over to Troeg’s Javahead which is damn fine, but I find myself longing for a Oskar Blues Ten FIddy(which I have had only once) and a Taddycaster by Samuel Smiths. The former we haven’t found around, the later has been a bit price prohibitive due to PA’s liquor laws making everything by the case.
Monday brings back the school days as I have enrolled in Nursing school. Psych 101 and English comp here I come! Fall will be better with Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Major English Writers: Romantic to Present. A fella has to have some fun, right? I believe I just called major British writers fun? I am currently in the midst of Swann’s Way(which I can’t help but think I should be trying to finish before school starts instead of blogging) and have pounced on Banvilles’ The Sea, Sport and a Pastime by Salter(was supposed to be super sexy, I thought, it had its moments), Graham Swift’s Last Orders which really knocked my socks off. I am gonna read The Red Badge of Courage for English Comp, and plan on quoting a D. F. Wallace interview for an American Identity paper. Oh, and Infinite Jest, fucking amazing.
I was reading Larry Levis’ Elegy, and started in on The Widening Spell of Leaves as well as working on some Ted Hughes. I found it unfair to compare T.H.s Hawk in the Rain, his first book, to Levis’ last, so I moved on to Birthday Letters. What a difference! I went from scoffing my way through H.i.t.R. to really enjoying reading B.L. out loud. I really don’t think poetry is a young man’s game. It ends up trying to be interesting and innovative and really, just without much heart. I’m looking at you Keats. Just a flowery mess! I understand that I am awfully picky though.
