Thursday’s Culinary Adventure

 

Tonight, on Thursday’s Culinary Adventure:

I saw this recipe on one of my favorite blogs, My Charming Kids and I just had to try it!  You can read her recipe here.

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You will need:

2 c. instant couscous (you can get this in bulk at most stores)

1 c. dried cranberries

1/2 c. chopped walnuts

2 tsp. white onion, very finely chopped

1 32 oz. can chicken broth

dash of salt and pepper

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In a medium bowl, combine couscous, dried cranberries, onions, salt and pepper.

Bring chicken broth to a boil, and then pour in couscous mixture.

Allow to sit, covered, for 10 min., or until the couscous has absorbed all the broth.

At this point, I realized that I had forgotten to take any pictures of the process so far.

Sorry.

 (Note the Strawberry-Rhubarb pie in the background.  Homemade.  Don’t you wish that I was your wife?)

When you uncover your couscous, it will probably look all sticky and solid like this

fluff it with a fork until it looks like this

then stir in the walnuts.

Serve immediately.

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Taste Testers Say:

Brian:  Yum!  It’s nice!  (He is eating his with hot sauce- but he eats everything with hot sauce.)

    

Caitlin:  It’s great!  I can’t wait to eat the leftovers for lunch! (Yes my picture was taken at a different time than everyone else.  I always forget.)

Joseph:  LOVED IT!

 

(His was nut-free, of course.)

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Summary: 

Pretty tasty.  I did add a little garlic salt to mine, because I thought that it needed a little somethin’-somethin’.  I suppose that you could also make the chicken flavored couscous, and just stir in the cranberries and nuts…hmm… I also think that I will throw in a little bit of olive oil next time to make it a little less sticky.  I will definitely make this again.

Grade: A- / B+

PS. A word to the wise:  Couscous is very messy.