Recipe: Sprouted Wheat Berry Salad

This winter I have been experimenting with sprouting various seeds. I posted recently about sprouting wheat berries and how delicious I find them.  Recently Roni from GreenLiteBites posted a recipe where she used a sweet mustard dressing.  As soon as I saw it I realized how delicious it would be and wanted to try it.  I came up with the following recipe that was delicious and perfect for a cold winter day where spring seem so far away.  It has just a bit of a kick from the combination of mustard, vinegar, and onions in it.  Even the man of the house gave it a thumbs up, after commenting on how the wheat looked a bit like spiders.

Spicy Sprouted Wheat Berry Salad

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups Wheat Berries
• 1/2 White Onion (The kind with enough flavor to burn your eyes when chopping)
• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 1 stalk celery chopped
• 3 (generous) servings Roni’s Maple Mustard Dressing
• 1 cup raisins soaked in hot water until they are nice and plump

Instructions

• Start the wheat berries sprouting a few days before you want to make the salad.
• Let it grow until the tips of the green leaves show up, it seems to add a nice level of sweet to the salad.
• Look up Roni’s salad dressing and mix up a batch, tweaking it as you go for the flavor you want.
• Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and let sit a room temperature for a while for the flavors to mix.
• Eat the delicious salad until it’s gone.

Recipe: Sweet Bread Hot Pockets

Tonight I combined two recipes I found in the inter web and created the most delicious pizza pockets.  Next time I am going to double everything and make a huge batch to freeze.  I will make  no other modifications, except to maybe try other flavors. Both recipes get two thumbs up from everyone here.

For the dough I used this super simple recipe for Homemade ‘King’s Hawaiian’ Bread.

For the filling I used a modified version of the Pioneer Womans “Easy Calzone” recipe.

Mambo Rice

image from scarlettabakes.com

Eating healthy delicious food is important to me.  One food that we eat quite a bit of are the sodium filled packets of rice that are so quick and easy to make.  In my quest to replace them I bought a 25lb bag of Jasmine Rice from Sams Club.  Now I have to figure out how to use it.  I found this recipe and tried it.  It is wonderful and delicious.

Guy Fieri’s Mambo Rice

Original recipe from Guy Fieri on Food Network.com

Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients

• 2 cups Water
• 1 1/2 cups Chicken Stock
• 2 cups Jasmine Rice
• 1 cup Chopped Parsley
• 1/2 cup Chopped Cilantro
• 1/4 cup Minced Garlic
• 1/4 cup Fresh Lime Juice
• 2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
• 2 tsp Ground Black Pepper

Cooking Directions

1. Add Water, Chicken Stock, and Rice into a rice cooker or a pan on the stove and cook accordingly
2. Combine Parsley, Cilantro, Garlic, Lime Juice, Olive Oil, Salt and Pepper
3. Toss with Rice
4. Eat for days, it makes a ton and is delicious