Grains: Bulgur

I love bulgur. I used to LOVE couscous. Now that I've found bulgur, couscous has fallen by the wayside. For several reasons:

1. Bulgur's nutritional value is higher- less calories, higher protein, fiber etc. (It's processed less.)

2. You can interchange bulgur for couscous. (This is because they are both wheat based products.)

3. It has better flavor- it has one! Couscous just tastes like pasta, bulgur has an almost nutty quality to it. It really adds to a dish.

4. I can find it cheaper at my local stores than couscous.

So try something new- you just might like it!

Desserts: Blueberry-Lemon filled and iced Lemon cake

So yesterday we had a New York style Pizza Party with my husband at the oven. (No photos cause everything went before I could!) Even w/out cheese the pizzas were delicious!

Well, before the pizzas were made, I wanted to make a Strawberry-filled Lemon cake. I did not how to approach it- but I looked in my fridge, saw lots of strawberry jam and thought to myself... Maybe that could work. Before I made the cake, I looked up recipes and came across this one: http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000642292

One problem, I don't have strawberries! I do however have a ton of blueberries in my freezer... So off I was on my little experiment- what could happen? It turn out wrong and I have to go with traditional frosting? I didn't get any pictures but the flavors of lemon-blueberry filling in and on lemon cake were a hit! Everyone liked it.

If I would change anything, I would try to figure out how to get more moisture into the filling. It ended up being more of a consistency of a jam. But it was so good! We had enough to fill the middle, top and sides.

Happy eating everyone!