HOLIDAY COUSCOUS

HOLIDAY COUSCOUS

Because with our spicy maple sweet potatoes, we need a second starch. Mashed potatoes? Nooooooo. Because those textures are the same, so there will not be mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes. If you are thinking of doing that, here is the farm VETO, on said menu. Choose one of the other, but really, mashed potatoes are so January, so the choices to serve along sweet potatoes are: roasted baby potatoes, couscous, wild rice, or other grain. While we are on the subject of forbidden foods, let’s talk marshmallows. VETO!!!!! There will not be any marshmallow on your sweet potatoes. The only way you will be serving marshmallows in any way or form, during Thanksgiving, is if you made them yourself, which yes, that’s sort of cool, in which case you have my permission. But If you didn’t whip that gelatin, in the corn syrup until it turned into a white fluffy pillow, then the answer is NO. No marshmallows for you. I don’t care if the kids like it. The holidays are here, so I like to work with the red and green color scheme, really super sorry about those that have the blue and the white as their holiday colors, I don’t really know how to incorporate those colors in my couscous. Summer we did, sweet corn in our saffron couscous, but now we are all about, green beans (could be asparagus) and red bell peppers (could be tomatoes) and crazy for nuts (any), so you choose. I love feta cheese in my couscous too, but only if there is no cheese in the salad.
Ingredients
  • Couscous, cooked according to package directions either in water or stock
  • Handful of finely diced green beans
  • some chopped roasted red pepper
  • roasted sliced almonds
  • bit of cooked wild rice (optional)
  • squeeze of lemon (because….?)
  • s +p + p (which would be parsley)
  • 1 clove of garlic, grated
Instructions
  1. Stir me all together. Taste for seasoning. Ok, maybe add splash of balsamic. Pretty. You may stuff me in a mini pumpkin. If you wish.