We love NPR for myriad reasons (including "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and "Prairie Home Companion"). NPR is entertaining and educational, generally simultaneously. It gets a lot of air time in our car. One day, E she heard an interview on NPR with Lukas Volger discussing his cookbook, Veggie Burgers Every Which Way. She happened to be very hungry at the time and the conversation about such alluring food prompted her to decide the book was a necessity in our kitchen island cookbook collection.
The proper liberals we are, we're very concerned with the environment, our health, animal ethics, and the other hot-button issues. E eats very little meat (and only when it fits her standards regarding the above issues); J eats none. We both like to cook. We're a little tired of lentil stews and tofu. This book is perfect for us! (John Mccann could probably benefit from it, too, speaking of NPR (don't worry, John, you can hold on to your "ghetto pass")).
There are 30 veggie burger recipes in Veggie Burgers Every Which Way (and a few recipes for buns, fries, toppings, etc). We began with the Easy Bean Burger, but we're not necessarily going in order. We hope we'll cook our way through the book. Whether or not we manage to is besides the point, because we're going to enjoy some delicious veggie burgers along the way!
Thank you, Lukas Volger! We're a hungry (basically-)vegetarian family, and we're looking forward to many scrumptious and refreshingly-different-from-what-we're-used-to dinners!
