Monday, February 22, 2010

Great Grains!

Amber waves and all that.
Grains, the staff of life! This week's theme is a celebration of the grains that give us life and energy and two of my best friends - bread and pasta. Let's not forget beer!

According to Wiki:

Wholegrains are cereal grains that contain bran and germ as well as the endosperm, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm. Wholegrains can generally be sprouted while processed grains generally will not sprout. Wholemeal products are made from wholegrain flour.

Common wholegrains:

Common wholegrain products include:

Just choose any of Nigella Lawson's recipes that contain grains, preferably whole grains but we are not sticklers by any stretch of the imagination...
Cook it up and post it by February 28th.
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In the meantime, have you had a chance to check out everybody's fabulous Potluck creations?

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I Heart Cooking Clubs *Great Grains* Participants
1. Natashya - Vegetarian Chili with Cornbread Topping
2. DebinHawaii--Cherried and Chickpea'd Couscous (Actually Farro)
3. Kim-North American Salad
4. Roz - Lemon Risotto

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9 comments:

Deb in Hawaii said...

Great post about "Great Grains" Natashya! ;-) I'll be cooking mine tomorrow.

NKP said...

Thanks Deb!

My Vegetarian Chili with Cornbread Topping is up!

Kim said...

That was a cute post!

I lost my picture for last week's entry, but I'm cooking up some grains today!

Deb in Hawaii said...

My Cherried and Chickpea'd Farro is up. (Was supposed to be couscous but I adapted to a "greater" grain!) ;-)

NKP said...

Kim - oh no for picture loss! Glad you are up and cooking though - can't wait to see what you come up with!

Deb - Far-out for farro, man! ;-)

Kim said...

Just posted up my North American Salad! On my way to check out Deb's farro:D

Tina said...

These all look good - you ladies are on the ball. I'm having trouble organizing this week ;-(

Kim said...

You all are killing me with the pick for the new chef!! Hmmmm...who to pick. I have a huge crush on both Oliver and Flay! Plus, Bittman has such a HUGE array of recipes. I'm going to have to sleep on this one;D

Roz | La Bella Vita Cucina said...

I prepared Nigella's "Lemon Risotto" and it was sublime! Roz