{"id":197,"date":"2008-02-22T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T02:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-02-22T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T02:18:56","slug":"whole-wheat-couscous-with-feta-sun-dried-tomato-porcini-and-white-truffle-honey-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/02\/whole-wheat-couscous-with-feta-sun-dried-tomato-porcini-and-white-truffle-honey-asparagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Wheat Couscous with Feta, Sun-dried Tomato, Porcini and White Truffle Honey Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because my favorite food blogger, Nicole at Pinch My Salt<\/a>, hasn’t been posting much, I thought I’d do a food related post tonight.  Since I’ve been in Los Angeles, my diet has definitely deteriorated and I haven’t been cooking near as much.  So when I was thinking about my Lenten discipline this year, I thought it would be good to break a bad habit.  So I decided to give up fast food.  For the most part, its been pretty easy so far, however it does mean I’ve also given up In-N-Out for the course of lent.  Sad.  Anyway, one of the things I hope the breaking of the fast food habit would lead to, is more home cooking.  I haven’t cooked at home as much as I would like so far, but I’m getting better about planning time into my busy schedule to do it.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s dinner was something that just came together in my head while grocery shopping last Monday.  I was thinking about how I could prepare the couscous I was planning to buy.  While in the produce section I noticed that the organic Asparagus looked pretty good and was a good price.  Remembering the White Truffle Honey I have in my pantry, the dish began to come together in my mind.  I don’t really have a recipe per say for dinner, I just did things by personal taste preference.<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/u>
Whole Wheat Couscous
Feta Cheese
Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Dried Porcini Mushrooms (Rehydrated)
Asparagus
Butter
White Truffle Honey<\/p>\n

Preparation:<\/u>
Pan-steam Asparagus for approx 5 minutes.  Drain water.  Put some butter in pan (being careful to only brown, not burn the butter) with asparagus, add white truffle honey to taste.  Cook approx 2 minutes longer, making sure asparagus is fully coated with butter\/honey mixture.  Remove from heat.  Prepare couscous.  Stir in Feta cheese to taste.  Stir in porcini and sun-dried tomatoes to taste.  Put couscous mixture on plate and top with asparagus.<\/p>\n

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Because my favorite food blogger, Nicole at Pinch My Salt, hasn’t been posting much, I thought I’d do a food related post tonight.  Since I’ve been in Los Angeles, my diet has definitely deteriorated and I haven’t been cooking near as much.  So when I was thinking about my Lenten discipline this year, I thought … <\/p>\n

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