Oh, the sweetness! My vegan quinoa chickpea burgers are featured on @sweetpaul: http://t.co/e4K77SxMsd

— Jamie Stelter (@JamieStelter) March 5, 2014

I’m honored and delighted that Paul Vitale, one of the Pauls behind Sweet Paul Magazine, asked to feature me on their site.

If you’re not familiar with Sweet Paul — they’re a food, craft and lifestyle quarterly magazine. It’s free online or you can pick up their gorgeous print edition at your local Anthropologie. They also have a major cookbook coming out next month.

Anyway check out the My Happy Dish feature; I chose this vegan quinoa + chickpea burger recipe that I posted here back in December.

If you know me, you know I love me some football; it’s one of the only beautiful things about summer being over. There’s also something really calming about getting back into the routine: cooking dinner for B (then blogging about it!), and watching the game together on the couch. What a game it was, too. My boys really kicked off the season in style the other night. Before I knew what kind of romping it would be — okay, fine 33-27 isn’t as much a romping as it felt like — I was planning a winning menu of my own.

I wanted a healthier version of a tailgate: something hearty and fried, but that wouldn’t leave me feeling sacked on the couch. Enter Gwyneth Paltrow’s gluten-free old bay fish fingers for kids (from her It’s All Good cookbook, which I’ve cooked from before). Inspired by those, I made these spicy mustard fluke fingers. Use as much sriracha as you like in the mustard mixture (I used a ton) and then whip up a little dipping sauce with it too (sriracha + vegenaise = heaven). It only takes about 15 minutes — prep and cook time, combined.

They taste just like fried chicken fingers you’d get at the stadium, but without any of the guilt. I’d say less noise too, but we get pretty into the games around here. Serve ’em with a side of broccoli like I did, or any vegetable or salad really — and even try ’em out on your kids too. I bet if you tell them it’s chicken, they’d never know the difference. It’s like running your very own play-action in the kitchen.

B knew it was fluke, and he loved it anyway. He asked if I could please add these to the regular TV Dinner repertoire. TOUCHDOWN.