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 grain salad I want the grain to shine as the star. In this case the farro feels like filler and its character is lost in the salad.
Add to that, Fearghus wouldn’t eat it because of the beets.
Lastly, because of the roasted beets this is a very pink salad. Scary pink in fact. It’d be a great addition to a valentine’s day dinner. Unfortunately I am really not a big fan of food that dyes other food. The beets + farro + goat cheese led to a giant pink mess.
I’d eat the individual components by themselves or in a different combination but this is not a winner with them all together.
**When I ordered groceries this week I ordered watercress but when the groceries arrived today they said they were out of watercress so instead I cut up the beet greens and boiled then for 1 min. I know it’s not really a great equivalent but it seemed like a reasonable thing to do with this salad.
