Couscous with Pine Nuts along with asparagus and chicken breast.
Yet another side-bar note of a recipe in Cooking Pleasures. No wonder I was in such a no-new-side rut for so long. A lot of good ones are so simple the magazine only dedicates two or three sentences to them.
I decided to try this one because I (being the Costco shopper I am) bought a giant bag of pine nuts shortly after I enjoyed them in some lasagna. Finally I'd be able to use some of them before they become rancid! And I figured I'd make it to accompany the olive chicken recipe in case the sauce part of that recipe needed something to soak into.
Rodney liked this more than I did. I thought it tasted ok, but whenever I have couscous I'm paranoid I'm going to inhale some of the grains straight into my lungs. They are so light and fluffy and so very tiny. A definite plus to this side is that it is pretty quick, fairly simple, and nearly impossible to mess up.
I wish I could give a detailed breakdown on cost, but since I'd purchased the couscous some time ago and probably spent $10 on pine nuts, I'll probably be way off.
Yet another side-bar note of a recipe in Cooking Pleasures. No wonder I was in such a no-new-side rut for so long. A lot of good ones are so simple the magazine only dedicates two or three sentences to them.
I decided to try this one because I (being the Costco shopper I am) bought a giant bag of pine nuts shortly after I enjoyed them in some lasagna. Finally I'd be able to use some of them before they become rancid! And I figured I'd make it to accompany the olive chicken recipe in case the sauce part of that recipe needed something to soak into.
Couscous with Pine Nuts
1.5 c water
1 c couscous
1/3 c pine nuts, toasted
1.5 c water
1 c couscous
1/3 c pine nuts, toasted
1/3 c green onions, sliced
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Reminder: toast your pine nuts!
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Reminder: toast your pine nuts!
Boil water, stir in couscous. Cover, remove from heat; let stand 5 minutes.
Stir in pine nuts, onions, oil; and salt and pepper to taste.
Rodney liked this more than I did. I thought it tasted ok, but whenever I have couscous I'm paranoid I'm going to inhale some of the grains straight into my lungs. They are so light and fluffy and so very tiny. A definite plus to this side is that it is pretty quick, fairly simple, and nearly impossible to mess up.
I wish I could give a detailed breakdown on cost, but since I'd purchased the couscous some time ago and probably spent $10 on pine nuts, I'll probably be way off.
3 comments:
Maybe you have a teeny tiny freezer like we do, but you can always freeze your Costco nuts so there's absolutely no chance they'll go rancid :-)
My freezer isn't teeny-tiny and yes, the nuts are stored in there. Pine nuts, it turns out, last a really long time when frozen. It's amazing, really.
It is :)
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