your goose is probably only half-baked at this point

I've never been a huge fan of hamburgers, but they're one of those foods that I crave every once in a very long while. I found  this recipe  last weekend and got one of those rare burger cravings because, c'mon, chickpeas, sriracha sauce, and it's a burger? That's just got  to taste good. And oh, oh it did. The first time I made it, I legit fucked up and put everything together into the food processor, which yielded a really tasty sriracha sauce-flavored hummus. NOT what you want when you're trying to make burgers. To get them to work, I had to bread the stupid things before I could fry them. The next time, I did NOT fuck up, which meant we could have the burgers un-breaded, which also meant that the ingredients' flavors and textures were free to come through. And come through they did! This is the juiciest, most flavorful recipe I've ever encountered for a burger. We've made this recipe three times now - that's 18 burgers. Two were ...

I'm rather a fan of smoothies, but they're always kind of ... harsh, somehow. Almost like they're chemically burning my throat, I suppose. And they're so cold . Which I know is rather the point, but I don't like cold things, especially not cold things that say "This is a chemical burn" in Tyler Durden's voice while they're turning my throat into an episode of Game of Thrones that spends too much time focused on Jon and Sam. This smoothie is almost 100% identical to the recipe from Oh She Glows (my colleague loaned me the Oh She Glows cookbook in exchange for pie, in case anyone's curious why I'm suddenly so obsessed with her recipes) but it has my twists to it, mostly brought on by the fact that I purchased a ridiculous number of Just Barley powdered green barley uh ... three years ago, and until today hadn't found a way to drink it that didn't involve way, WAY too much sugar. Like I'd only drink it if it were made with t...