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Today was Hubby’s birthday. It also happened to be the craziest night we have this week (doctor’s appt for Boy, piano lesson for Girl), so I needed something that I could get on the table quickly, since I knew I wouldn’t even be home until 6:30. When we were at Costco this weekend, Hubby saw these pre-made Chicken Cordon Bleu and wanted to get them, so I decided to make them for his birthday. Not something that I would ordinarily buy, but he loved them.<\/p>\n
To go with, I just steamed some frozen (organic, from Costco) green beans and this multigrain pilaf<\/a> recipe from this month’s Cooking Light<\/u> magazine. One of Hubby’s co-workers gave us some special, imported buckwheat groats (kasha) recently and I’ve been wanting to try it. The pilaf was surprisingly good. I expected it to taste more “healthy”, if you know what I mean, but it was actually pretty good. Of course, I was famished at dinner tonight, so that could have had something to do with it.<\/p>\n Today was Hubby’s birthday. It also happened to be the craziest night we have this week (doctor’s appt for Boy, piano lesson for Girl), so I needed something that I could get on the table quickly, since I knew I wouldn’t even be home until 6:30. When we were at Costco this weekend, Hubby saw … Continue reading “Cooking Light Multigrain Pilaf”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-side-dishes-starch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_3635.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3635.jpg\")
\nGetting ready to make the pilaf. From left to right: buckwheat, barley, bulghur.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_3638.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3638.jpg\")
\nHubby’s not a big fan of conventional cakes and detests icing, but he LOVES these cookies<\/a>, especially straight out of the oven. So….we decided this would be the perfect birthday dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"