A culinary flop - and a new euphemism to dislike

[ffutures]

I fancied burgers and don't have any suitable meat in the house, so I tried to make a soya-based burger using the meat-flavoured soya meal I use for spaghetti sauce, cous-cous, and chilli sauce to bind it, plus onions, garlic, and a little ginger. It sort of worked, but the burger disintegrated when I tried to turn it over, obviously the chilli sauce didn't hold it well enough. I'm trying to avoid eggs (not for veggie / vegan reasons but because I'm trying to cut down on cholesterol) which is what I used to use for this; can anyone suggest something else that might do the trick?

The TV was on in another room while I was cooking and I heard an American politician, I think someone senior in Congress, saying that America should launch an immediate attack and describing this as "muscular diplomacy" if I didn't mishear him. Is this the new euphemism for "killing hundreds of people, many of them entirely innocent"? If so I really don't like it...

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Apparently Assad has spent the last few days moving political prisoners, children, and unreliable army units into targets likely to be hit by cruise missiles.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not a surprise.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

My doctor friends assure me that eggs are a much maligned product from a cholesterol perspective.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, maybe next time I'll use one.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I was going to say 'just use an egg' - my memory told me that current research says the cholesterol in eggs has little effect on the levels in your blood - and a quick skim around a few 'reputable' sites seems to suggest that this is the case - up to 6 eggs a week seems to have no effect at all on your LDL levels.

One research review pointed out that the raised LDL levels associated with egg consumption was probably caused by the amount of bacon consumed alongside them...

[heygirlie.livejournal.com]

You could always use egg whites instead of whole eggs. I'm not sure what kind of products they have in the UK but something like eggbeaters (http://www.eggbeaters.com/).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I can separate an egg reasonably well by hand - it was occasionally part of my job as a lab technician, when we needed a clear albumen solution (we had albumen powder but it's difficult to mix it as a real solution, you usually ended up with a suspension).

[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

Well it sounds delicious, even if it did disintegrate! Would meatballs be a better shape for the mixture than burgers?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Probably, I didn't think of it.