To fuck or to cook?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Sparklehorse

Does anyone have advice and/or recipes for barley, barley flour and wheat berries? I have been getting these from a winter farm share. I had a bad digestive reaction to wheat berries the one time I made a winter root vegetable salad with some, but I may not have cooked the wheat berries for long enough. I have never cooked with barley before but am aware that soup seems like a place where it frequently appears.

Barley mushroom soup is one of the most heavenly things on earth.


1 onion med. dice
2 ribs celery med. dice
2 carrots med. dice
1 clove garlic mashed
2 bay leaves
pinch thyme
1 cup red wine
2 qt. beef stock
black pepper
1.5 cups barley
mushrooms (button, crimini, oyster, chanterelle) sliced

sweat first four ingredients until onion is translucent, add a pinch kosher salt at beginning

add bay leaf, thyme, red wine and cook until wine is reduced by half

add barley, stock and black pepper to taste, bring to boil and then simmer for 2.5 to 4 hours

add mushrooms and let simmer for one hour




wheat berries and barley both make for an interesting variation on risotto. be sure you boil them for 45 minutes in stock or water before preparing as risotto. mushrooms work well, as do asparagus. this makes a very good side for braised short ribs or lamb shanks.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Barley mushroom soup is one of the most heavenly things on earth.


1 onion med. dice
2 ribs celery med. dice
2 carrots med. dice
1 clove garlic mashed
2 bay leaves
pinch thyme
1 cup red wine
2 qt. beef stock
black pepper
1.5 cups barley
mushrooms (button, crimini, oyster, chanterelle) sliced

sweat first four ingredients until onion is translucent, add a pinch kosher salt at beginning

add bay leaf, thyme, red wine and cook until wine is reduced by half

add barley, stock and black pepper to taste, bring to boil and then simmer for 2.5 to 4 hours

add mushrooms and let simmer for one hour




wheat berries and barley both make for an interesting variation on risotto. be sure you boil them for 45 minutes in stock or water before preparing as risotto. mushrooms work well, as do asparagus. this makes a very good side for braised short ribs or lamb shanks.

Yowza! I just came!

[Sidd Finch]

On Saturday I made Michael Volt's menu from Food & Wine. Braised shortribs with Indian spice, carrots braised in beer and carrot juice, and gnocchi. Deep-fried gnocchi -- essentially the gnocchi meets the Tater Tot and the result is pure orgasmic goodness. I may be ruined for normal Tater Tots for years to come.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

On Saturday I made Michael Volt's menu from Food & Wine. Braised shortribs with Indian spice, carrots braised in beer and carrot juice, and gnocchi. Deep-fried gnocchi -- essentially the gnocchi meets the Tater Tot and the result is pure orgasmic goodness. I may be ruined for normal Tater Tots for years to come.

Wine pairing?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

On Saturday I made Michael Volt's menu from Food & Wine. Braised shortribs with Indian spice, carrots braised in beer and carrot juice, and gnocchi. Deep-fried gnocchi -- essentially the gnocchi meets the Tater Tot and the result is pure orgasmic goodness. I may be ruined for normal Tater Tots for years to come.

We saw that and Mr Man threatened to cook that menu for me. Worth it??

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

We saw that and Mr Man threatened to cook that menu for me. Worth it??

Is your wine cellar as evolved as Sidd's?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

Wine pairing?

Green & Red Zinfandel. You know it? If not, I can arrange for that to change, methinks.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

We saw that and Mr Man threatened to cook that menu for me. Worth it??

Definitely. It's actually pretty easy to cook, it just takes some time for the braise. I made an afternoon of leisurely cooking, and had time to throw together some brownies and some fruit salad (for dessert, and for the kids/wife appeasement, respectively).

Then a friend came over and we watched the UFC fights. I assume everyone has good food and wine to accompany a fight, no?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

On Saturday I made Michael Volt's menu from Food & Wine. Braised shortribs with Indian spice, carrots braised in beer and carrot juice, and gnocchi. Deep-fried gnocchi -- essentially the gnocchi meets the Tater Tot and the result is pure orgasmic goodness. I may be ruined for normal Tater Tots for years to come.

We made the pasta carbonera from this month's Saveur last night for about 10 friends. Very good.

Of course, we also served a motzo crackers with the dairy and pork pasta, cuz, you know, passover.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

We made the pasta carbonera from this month's Saveur last night for about 10 friends. Very good.

Of course, we also served a motzo crackers with the dairy and pork pasta, cuz, you know, passover.

tofacon

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Green & Red Zinfandel. You know it? If not, I can arrange for that to change, methinks.

I don't, but I'm curious. I just got an email from OS Winery (Ulysses). they need volunteer bottlers on Friday morning. Is the second day on a new job a good time to take off and go bottle wine (I think they give you 2-3 bottles for the effourt, plus sampling)?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

I don't, but I'm curious. I just got an email from OS Winery (Ulysses). they need volunteer bottlers on Friday morning. Is the second day on a new job a good time to take off and go bottle wine (I think they give you 2-3 bottles for the effourt, plus sampling)?

If it is, that's a kick-ass job.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

If it is, that's a kick-ass job.

I could probably pull it off, I could say I was getting sized for my new bidet, but, I worry, is bottling wine hard work?

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

I could say I was getting sized for my new bidet,

If you do, then I'm afraid you're not doing it right.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

If you do, then I'm afraid you're not doing it right.

I just used ye olde bidet for the last time. Soon it will be goodbye to the corner office........12 years down the drain, npi..........[sigh][sniff]

Ciao billables, its on to the business side. Time to drink!