Bean "Patties" for Dinner

I got home first. I was going to make dinner. I wanted to try something we had not had before. I thought of a nice lentil loaf. Problem. Lentils had to be cooked first. Not enough time. So, I looked through the cookbook. "Bean Patties"! Sounds good. We have not tried this recipe. Let's try it. So....

Good news. We had all the ingredients. We would have bean patties, baked potatoes, and broccoli. Nice dinner for two.

I got all the stuff out. followed the recipe as close as I could. It called for two cups of thick bean puree. So I put the canned beans in the blender and pushed the "puree" button. I made them as thick as I could. It was pretty thick. Should be fine.

Well, after I put all the ingredients together it was a little bit "thin" but I thought it would be ok, However, there was no way I could "form into small patties about 3/4" thick." These were patties that are put on a pan and baked instead of fried. So I dropped mounds of stuff on the pan. Lots of little globs all over the pan. The baking process will make them firm. Right? Wrong. It all "melted" together to about 3/8 inch thick!

Instead of having bean patties for dinner, we had a 3/8 inch thick "bean loaf". I even had to bake it twice as long to get it to be done, and firm. So much for the dinner I had planned. Actuall, it was quite good. Just not patties. Here is a picture of what we had.

"Bean Patties"