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Category Archives: Grains
Farro bowl with vegetables 5/31/22
I have not made this yummy dish since February and it belongs in a more frequent rotation. I baked the farro in the oven which enhances its nutty flavor. Oven baked farro 1.5 cups farro1 teaspoon kosher salt2 1/3 cups … Continue reading
Posted in Grains, Legumes, Middle Eastern, Recipes, Sheet pan, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged edamame, farro
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Shrimp with broccoli and zucchini over polenta 5/12/22
Shrimp with vegetables over polenta is our version of shrimp and grits. John uses Bob’s Red Mill polenta and makes it in a ratio of six parts water to one part polenta. One half cup of polenta turns into quite … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grains, Healthy tips, Methods, pescatarian, Shellfish, Vegetables
Tagged polenta, shrimp
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Grilled hamburgers and tabbouleh 5/6/22
Does anybody else do this? You know you have to go back to dieting on Monday so you eat everything that you would not normally eat in the days leading up to D-Day. So yes, I am human and we … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Grains, Kitchen tips, Recipes, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged bulgur wheat, ground beef
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Farro stuffed pepper. 3/11/22
This dish which luckily I made in the morning has a lot of components. First I needed to make the farro. I used an oven method where 1.5 cups of farro cook in a covered dish with 2 1/3 cups … Continue reading
Posted in American, Grains, Methods, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged bell peppers, farro
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Farro grain bowl with vegetables. 2/12/22
Farro is a delicious nutty flavored grain that not many people know about. It can take the place of rice in many dishes. I make mine in the oven but you can also cook on your stove top as well. … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grains, Kitchen tips, Methods, Sheet pan, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged Eggplant, farro
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Farro bowl with Brussels sprouts and eggplant. 1/11/22
The dish I made is an adaptation of a NY Times Cooking recipe, Quinoa bowl with crispy Brussels sprouts and eggplant. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020741-quinoa-bowl-with-crispy-brussels-sprouts-eggplant-and-tahini?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share. I changed the grain to farro and eliminated the tahini sauce replacing it with a yogurt based sauce. … Continue reading
Posted in American, Grains, Healthy tips, Kitchen tips, Legumes, Methods, Recipes, Sheet pan, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged farro, grain bowl
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Chicken with Tabbouleh and Moroccan carrot salad. 7/29/21
Since it was in the mid-90s on Thursday, I decided to shift from sheet pan roasted vegetables to cool salads. I made my usual parsley forward tabbouleh and looked through a bunch of recipes to find a carrot salad that … Continue reading
Posted in Grains, Healthy tips, Middle Eastern, North African, Poultry, Recipes, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged carrots, chicken, tabbouleh
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Seared scallops with asparagus and rice mix 5/15/21
Saturday night is usually Leftovers For Dinner (LFD) but the only leftovers we had were some rice and some farro. So I mixed those together and added asparagus as our vegetable and scallops for the protein. John always does a … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Grains, Kitchen tips, leftovers, Leftovers For Dinner, pescatarian, Shellfish, Vegetables
Tagged scallops
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Farro and mushroom stuffed peppers. 5/7/21
John and I kind of invented this dinner on the fly when we were thinking about our weekly menu. We talked about wanting to use tofu and farro and decided that a stuffed pepper would be a way to combine … Continue reading
Cabbage, mushroom, and egg frittata BFD. 4/11/21
Tonight’s Breakfast For Dinner (BFD) was actually more like dinner than breakfast. I needed to use a piece of a cabbage and entered “egg cabbage” into Google. What I got among other things was a recipe from the Egg Board … Continue reading
Posted in American, Breakfast For Dinner (BFD), Easy, Eggs, Grains, Kitchen tips, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged cabbage, Eggs, Mushroom
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