Well, last night I had a teeny cooking failure. Nothing too disastrous, just a bit of a flop on the presentation side of things.

I decided to make these Carrot, Zucchini, Chickpea and Halloumi burgers. I found the recipe via Photo-grazing on the Serious Eats website (I searched vegetarian), which allows you to peruse and drool over tonnes of food pics. If you see something you like then you can click on the pic and it takes you to the recipe. Genius! Anyway, I thought these looked like a bit of alright so decided to give them a go.

Everything was going swimmingly until it came to the part where I had to form them into burger patties. I tried my best to make perfect little patties but the mixture didn’t stick very well and I was left with a crumbly mess in my fry pan. In the end I resorted to haphazardly frying everything up, scooping portions onto my bun and forgetting that they were supposed to be burgers. Anyway, despite all this the crumbly vegetable…thing..tasted fantastic! 

Tonight, I decided to try again. A lot of the time I think cooking is about experimenting until you get it right. So that’s what I did. I took my leftover burger mixture and put it through the food processor. Part of the problem last night was that I hadn’t cut the halloumi into small enough pieces. Once blended, the mixture was much more obedient and formed into lovely little patties for me. It also helped that the mixture was cool as it had been refrigerated. Success!

I served the patties on toasted turkish bread with lashings of hommus on one half and pesto on the other. Topped with rocket leaves, tomato and cucumber.

Also, I have to comment on the fact that this recipe required lots of grating. A whole carrot and whole zucchini. Grating is the bane of my existence! If you saw my grater you would know why. It is a pathetic excuse for a grater! Dear Santa: for Christmas I would like a new, whiz-bang grater. Thank you, Hannah.