“Medieval Farro Salad” from A Culinary Traveler in Tuscany by Beth Elon http://www.bluebirdgrainfarms.com/medieval-farro-salad/ Overall: B This week I got curious and asked Google about “medieval Farro”. It suggested two recipes, this one (which calls itself “medieval” but offers no supporting evidence) and “Farro with 15th Century for Spelt Rice Porridge” (which looked promising until I realized that there was no…
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Farro Salad with roasted carrots and onions
Farro Salad with roasted carrots and onions http://madbaker.livejournal.com/800777.html?hc_location=ufi Overall: B Last week when I posted about the Farro salad with raisins and Pistacios (https://www.facebook.com/nibuca/posts/10203933873646637) Jeremy Fletcher mentioned that he had a “Farro Tabbouleh” recipe he liked and suggested I might like to try it. I will be completely honest and say that the dish I made last night was only…
Farro Salad with raisins and pistachios
Farro Salad with raisins and pistachios http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/wheat-berry-salad-with-raisins-pistachios Overall: A- I substituted Farro for the Wheat Berries (Safeway sells Farro but not Wheat Berries so I could get them without making a special trip to the hippy store) and Parsley for Cilantro (I have _that_ gene that makes cilantro taste like soap so although I realize parsley isn’t a good substitute,…
Farro Salad with Roasted Beets, beet greens, and Poppy Seed Dressing**
Farro Salad with Roasted Beets, beet greens, and Poppy Seed Dressing** http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/farro-salad-with-roasted-beets-watercress-poppy-seed-dressing Overall: C- The taste is good but the poppy seeds make this something I’d hesitant to take as work lunch food (poppy seeds stuck in teeth) and the sour cream makes me hesitate to have the salad sit out for long for fear of spoiling. With a whole…
Wheat berry salad with feta
Wheat berry salad with feta http://www.myrecipes.com/m/recipe/wheat-berry-salad-with-goat-cheese Overall: B It’s yummy and I’d make it again but Fearghus wouldn’t like it (because it has big chunky tomatoes in it). Wheat berry salad with feta (because I had no goat cheese). Also because of the tomato and cucumber this ends up being a very wet salad. The leftovers did not keep well.
Friday Five: Kilroy was here
1. Work/Programming Work is moving along work-like. Meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting. You know with all these meetings it’s amazing any work ever gets done. On a programming-but-not-work-related note, the tablet weaving editor at Webbriefeditor http://www.b-oberholz.de/editor/index.php stopped working. I think I have the programming chops to write a replacement. More to follow. I finally settled on monica.l.stroud@gmail.com as my new email…
Friday Five: Power in the naming of things
1. Work/Programming I’ve finally started the process to get my name updated at work. Before Erik’s birth the HR department told me that if I changed my name in the system before end-of-year there was a chance I could get dropped from the system completely just about the time I went into the hospital to give birth (you know, like…
Friday Five – God is an iron
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. On Tuesday I completed my part of the multi-departmental big huge giant “make work” project. My part at least seems to have gone off without even a whimper. On…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming HA! I turned in my “list of features I think the next version should have” and the biggest question was “who asked for this feature?” Interesting. I’ll followup with my boss on Monday to see if I need to change the feature list.. but at the moment I’m working on a design for the listed features. 2. Home…
Friday Five
1. Work/Programming Is it bad that I still really like my job? I mean it’s not like I’m saying “No, don’t give me time off for the Holiday”.. but all things considered.. it’s not a bad thing to go back to after the holiday. My last day of work was 12/20. I won’t be back in the office until 1/3.…