The other day while I was laying on the couch recuperating, I watched Everyday Italian. Even though I couldn’t really imagine eating anything, I got up and retrieved this recipe. I also grabbed the farro salad recipe. We have another recipe that calls for farro but we’ve always substituted barley. Now we have a bag of farro and it is a coin toss, in my mind, which recipe will get the farro. Perhaps there’s enough for both. I can’t remember where we got the bag, even though, it was somewhat recently. Farro is hard to find, at least around here.
Yesterday we thawed two bone-in pork chops from the Butchery. The recipe calls for boneless, but we went with what we had. The results were amazingly good and tasted just like what I had imagined it tasting like after watching the show.
Finished, on our new plates:
We had a good amount of baby spinach but not enough for me to make my usual soy sauce, garlic, spinach extravaganza so we made a salad instead.
The white shapeless blob is goat cheese. Pignoli, pickled carrots, celery and spring onions rounded out the salad.
Crusty bread with butter and an Italian Montepulciano completed the meal.
Wow, that looks really good!
Giada is my daughter’s favorite, but we’ve noticed some quirky nuances to the way she talks so we always end up imitating her. Especially the way she says “CRunchy” and “CReamy” and…”just like that!”
I hadn’t paid attention to that but now that you mention it–she does do that…even more reason to watch the show (for the laughs). I usually refer to her as little big head because she’s so small but her head is big for her body.