The black bean patty was easy, because I made it before (and blogged about it before) but this time I made it a little differently- without a recipe. Long story short, I mashed two cans of black beans (after rinsing them of course) and mixed in some corn, orange and yellow bell pepper, onion, Thai chili sauce, two eggs, two slices of bread (crumbled up), cooked rice, Santa-Fe style salsa, and garlic salt. Mmmmm it tasted so good.
I winged the marinara sauce, as well. This one was a little harder though, because 1. I made it completely from scratch and 2. I've only made it once before, a long long time ago. I started out by caramelizing two large white onions, which took about 25 minutes, give or take. After I took the onions off the heat (because I'm terrible at multitasking), I peeled 9 tomatoes using the ol' boiling water technique, quartered and seeded them, and threw them in a pot with orange and yellow bell pepper (I was out of green), the caramelized onion, about two tablespoons of dried basil, a few pinches of dried thyme, three cloves of garlic, and a liberal smattering of salt. I then covered it and let it simmer for the next three hours and voila! Instant marinara!
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