Farro & Herbs

I had a good turn of mozzarella in my icebox this week. We grilled pizzas on Memorial Day, and didn't modify up using it all. So, I intellection I'd deal a farro instruction I threw unitedly after in the week. It's prefabricated with farro, bocconcini, a bit of homemade creme fraiche, and herbs from terminal weeks farmers' market - the ones that nearly escaped by hiding behindhand a bed of condiments in the refrigerator. Do you ingest farro much? I can't get sufficiency of it. I love it's chewy nuttiness and the artefact it goes with meet about everything...I also intellection I'd deal a pair photos I took on a walk in Golden Gate Park - the terminal of the plum and redness blossoms. As far as today's instruction goes, this is the variety of abstract you crapper attain in no time if you hit grilled grains (in this case farro) on hand. I've mentioned it before, but I usually keep whatever variety of rice, farro, etc. cooked, then frozen, so I crapper meet pop it in a pan or saucepan whenever I poverty something like this. But today that I'm looking at the instruction again, you could even fissure open a pair of cans of chickpeas and ingest those in place of the farro here. Either way, it crapper be a lateral dish, or you crapper think of it as more of a main ply - for the latter, I might prepare up an egg to top things off. I meet used what I had at assistance here, but I crapper imagine whatever peppery arugula, or livid asparagus, or broccolini being enthusiastic additions. Or, whatever oven-roasted tomatoes and flushed pepper flakes thrown in erst we get into herb season. On a separate note, I picked up a few new cookbooks yesterday at Omnivore Books. If you live in the Bay Area and love to cook, it is digit of those places you should visit. Celia stocks lots of International titles - British, Australian, land - the good ones that are hard to encounter unless you're motion abroad. So, I'm excited to essay whatever recipes from those, and hopefully I'll hit whatever recipes to highlight soon. -h Continue datum Farro & Herbs...