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1 can cannellini beans, drained

About 1/3–1/2 cup breadcrumbs

About 2 tbsp softened butter

Pinch of MSG

Pinch of sugar

Small pinch of salt

About 1 cup clam juice, enough to mostly cover them

Butter or oil for searing

2 cups Flour, 1 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp skyr, 1tbsp yeast and water for bread. Bake at 325f.

Mash the cannellini beans into a fairly smooth paste. Mix in the softened butter, breadcrumbs, MSG, sugar and salt. Add enough breadcrumbs that the mixture holds together when shaped, but don't make it dry.

Form into thick round cakes about the size of large scallops. Set 1 hour. Put them in a shallow container and pour clam juice around them. Marinate in the fridge for about 3 hours.

Carefully remove them from the clam juice and pat the outsides dry. Bake at about 325°F for around 15–20 minutes, just until they're firm enough to handle without falling apart.

Heat butter or oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Sear the cakes until deeply browned on both sides, a few minutes per side. Don't move them around much while they're browning or they'll break.

I served mine over a peri-peri black bean and tomato stew cooked with chicken broth, and with skyr sauce, wood sorrel and dulse-butter toast. Dulse on the toast was great to tie the seafood theme all together.

Homemade clam infused lentil scallops

Brown lentil "scallops"

Butter

Breadcrumbs

Clam juice

Pinch of MSG

Pinch of sugar

Peri-peri cannellini tomato stew

Cannellini beans

Tomato

Italian herbs

Peri-peri

Lime

Clam juice

Homemade bread

Flour

Yeast

Salt

Dulse-infused butter

Finished with softened dulse and fresh wood sorrel.

Slapped like a mofo lol

Basically, it was all home made. Cost is just under a dollar per plate. I ended up putting the corn on the burger because weeknight, but it was a good choice.

So apparently I have to include a recipe which is going to be kind of hard because I eyeballed this entire thing I just used the intuition I've developed over a decade working with flower dough so like I don't know there's let's say:

Buns:

Cup and a bit of flour, tablespoon and a half roughly of yeast and a clump of sugar in warm water, 1 egg yolk. Save whites. Proof. Bake for 18 mins at 350 after saving a bit of egg yolk for a brush on.

Legumes patties:

600 to 700ml cooked lentils and black beans, mash until varying texture. Spice and seasoning: use your preferred mixture, mix and combine with egg whites and one more egg. Then add breadcrumbs and combine. Mold into pucks/patties and set.

Cook:

I used previously stored bacon grease to fry patties on medium and finish them off in oven at 350f while whole time corn was cooking in husk.

Corn tossed with melted garlic butter.

Porcini, Shiitake, garden thyme and fresh foraged cedar tips infused into cream. Garlic base in butter and large diced green onion. Salt and pepper. Rustic dumplings for body.

Coffee sweetened with dark maple syrup. Kifir and onion to cut the richness. Spiced cheese filling.

Hand made rustic stuffed steamed and fried dumplings.

Im talking about northern logging roads, the kind with radio call up frequencies and where they don't fix the road really. Massive fissures, washboard sections and large potholes. If you know the road it might be possible since I saw a Toyota Yaris there at the end of the roads.

Road surface doesnt come through in these pics but its rough and like a non fully tamped down sandy aggregate with large stones, some like river stones and some jagged. Alarming amount of exploded tires along the sode of the road over the decades.

Reason I want to is next trip up to our camp, I want to take my 2017 Cruze since I can get slightly over 800km/tank. GMC pictured last mate the treck there and back. I am very worried about cracked oil pans and control arm/suspension and ground clearance.

The road to camp is 4 hours down the roads pictured.

Wise? Or will we end up stranded for days with a $5000 tow bill? Basically I would assume no... but I saw a functioning Yaris up there so.....

Foraged from my yard.

Foraged dandelion greens and flowers from the yard with a homemade pomegranate vinaigrette, olive oil, lime, lemon, salt and pepper.

Most expensive part was the lime at $1.29 for the lime, lol.