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MARCH/APRIL 2014
Barley Casserole
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Versatile and delicious, grains are good for you
If there’s one thing we hear about
grains these days, it’s that they’re
good for you.
What hardly anybody seems to mention
is that in addition to being nutritious and
healthy, grains are delicious and can be
flavorful and hearty in their own right.
One of the great things about grains is their
ability to absorb liquid and, therefore, the
flavor of the ingredients that are included
with them.
Take barley, for instance. If you’re like me,
your earliest (and perhaps only) memory
of barley is of those little white grains in
the Campbell’s vegetable soup that your
mom used to heat up for winter lunches.
Barley was, and probably still is, about the
only thing in the soup that had any texture
left after the merciless processing of the
ingredients.
best of these and adding other ingredients
here and there, I perfected my own version.
The resulting casserole makes a terrific
companion to almost any entree from roast
chicken to leg of lamb to standing rib roast.
The wonderful thing about this magnificent
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