Disgruntled Dieting: Black Bean Burger

Per Mrs. Guzman's Request, here is my very, very complicated and difficult recipe for black bean burgers:

Ingredients:
Whole Wheat Hamburger Bun
Fresh Spinach
Tomatoes, sliced
Red Onions, thinly sliced
Light Sour Cream
Liption Onion Soup Mix (dry)
Hidden Valley Dill Dip Mix (dry)
Top Secret Black Bean Ingredients.

Spray your bun with Pam and stick it in the frying pan to toast.
Spray the pan with Pam too.
Thinly slice red onions and put in the pan to grill. Do not add water or any other moisture. These should cook dryly so they are grilled and not mushy.

Get however much sour cream you think you will need per person, per burger. Slap that in a bowl. Put in the dill and onion dip mixes into the sour cream- just enough to season it to your own personal taste. Remember this is replacing mayonaise or thousand island or whatever you usually put on your burger. So, it should be flavorful to you.

Take the toasted buns out of the frying pan and smear some of your onion dill spread on both the roof and basement of the bun.

Now. This is the very important part. And it is top secret and you can't tell a SOUL. This is how we make the black bean burger. Promise not to tell? You have to swear. Ok, as long as we are on the same page I will tell you. Go to the grocery store. Go to the freezer section. Find the shi-shi-foo-foo vegetarian section where they sell Morning Star brand. Find the one that says, "Morning Star Black Bean Burger." Buy it. Take it home. Microwave the burgers for 30 seconds at a time, per side, for a total of one minute. Spray your pan with pam again and throw your burgers in the pan with the onions. Grill it up til it's brown on each side.

Put the burger on your bun, stack your spinach on top and your tomantos and grilled onions and put the roof on! Eat it. All done. C'est Fin.

I have a picture, but I think it must be on my crashed external drive because I can't find it on my laptop. :(

Amelia's Surgery

So, Amelia had dental surgery last Tuesday. She had a pre-check on Monday night and then I dropped her off at 7am the next morning at Banfield. I was very sad to see her go and I felt very guilty for taking her on her third trip to the vet in 4 days!


I talked with the vet on and off during the day to discuss her lab results and how her cleaning was going and what needed to be done. She unfortunatley had to have two teeth extracted. :( So she came home at 3pm on Tuesday afternoon on painkillers and Clindomyacin (antibiotics). Here is Amelia in her kitty-recovery suite on the floor of my very messy room:

As you can see, we kept her medicine close by. She's got her special blankie and pillow from Great Grandma Nelson, which were actually dollie blankies for me when I was little. (Grandma died in 1993, long before Amelia. But I don't think she would have minded.) We've got Amelia bribery- her brush, which she loves and of course, Dairy the cow, a webkinz to snuggle if she got lonely. Also, her dry cat food soaked in water. She cant have kibble for two weeks! You can see her poor lil shaved paw in this one where they took her blood!!! :(


And here she is feeling a little better, outside on the porch sniffin' the flowers.

And in her private recovery suite, with her special blankies and bear where she can hide from Tootie, who thinks pouncing on her while she's high on painkillers is totally fine.

She's flyin' HIGH!! Flop, flop, flop!

Amelia doing some extra credit flopping. I haven't seen her flop around like this since I brought her home from the orphanage and she was in heat and flopped all over the exam table at the vet's while purring hysterically. She was SO happy to be safe at home with Mommy!!!



Tootie decided Amelia's ultra-feminine satin and minky pink blankie was the perfect spot for a bath and a nap. I swear, he really is a boy!