Sunday, December 12, 2010

December 2nd, 2010

The majority of my life, I was not a fan of cous cous.  My mom really never made it and I considered it this crazy exotic grain that people in faraway places ate by the sea.  Honestly, I only had it once at a banquet and thought it was mushy and bland.  But what isn’t mushy and bland at a banquet.  Half of the time you don’t even need to have teeth for those meals.  When I was pregnant with Lauren I had it again when I worked at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant and even in my first trimester nauseous phase, loved it!  But I still thought it was exotic and something regular people couldn’t make without some crazy Julia Child type diagram recipe.  Then I saw Rachel Ray make it.  She boiled chicken stock, threw in some cous cous, covered the lid for 5 minutes, fluffed it with a fork.  Now that I can do and have been doing ever since.

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Roasted chicken, whole wheat cous cous with roasted asparagus and mushrooms, and salad.  And there wasn’t even seaside dining required.

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