This stuff is GOOOOOOD!

* Exported from MasterCook *

Greek Barley Salad

Recipe By :adapted by Carol Peterson
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Salads/Dressings

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 cups chicken broth
1 cup pearl barley
1/2 medium red bell pepper -- cut in thin strips
2 whole green onions -- thinly sliced
2 Roma tomatoes -- cut in eighths
1/2 cup pitted black olives -- sliced
4 cups romaine lettuce -- torn
---Dressing---
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 garlic clove -- pressed
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
fresh ground black pepper -- to taste
1/2 cup feta cheese -- crumbled

Combine chicken broth and barley. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer
for 40 minutes until tender. Refrigerate until cool. Prepare
vegetables and place into a large salad bowl. Add cooled barley. Whisk
dressing ingredients together. Drizzle dressing on top, and toss. Top
with feta cheese.

Cuisine:
"Greek"
Source:
"Alberta Barley Commission"

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On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:14 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:06:47 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:
>
>>This stuff is GOOOOOOD!
>>
>> * Exported from MasterCook *
>>
>> Greek Barley Salad
>
>I had forgotten about this!!! Thanks so much for reposting this!!!
>This is right up my line for now... exactly the way I am trying to
>eat.... And with the feta cheese in it, it looks like something I
>could take to work cold, and it won't have to be heated for me to eat
>it. Lately at work, that is a very necessary thing: we are having a
>baby and micropremie explosion at work. No time to eat much of
>anything, especially if it needs to be heated. This I could take out
>and eat while trying to chart....
>
>I think all I need is a red pepper to make this... I will have to get
>one when I stop at the grocery store on the way home from work on
>Saturday morning.

Enjoy!
Carol

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Christine wrote:

> we are having a baby and micropremie explosion at work.

Counting back, these babies would have been conceived around May of last
year...right when people were *not* able to afford vacations!

I guess they found some alternate activity for that spare time.

Bob

I am making this for a potluck lunch at my synagogue tomorrow! I will
let you know what folks think.
Lynn in Fargo
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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> This stuff is GOOOOOOD!
>
> * Exported from MasterCook *
>
> Greek Barley Salad
>
> Recipe By :adapted by Carol Peterson
> Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
> Categories : Salads/Dressings
>
> Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
> -------- ------------ --------------------------------
> 2 cups chicken broth
> 1 cup pearl barley
> 1/2 medium red bell pepper -- cut in thin strips
> 2 whole green onions -- thinly sliced
> 2 Roma tomatoes -- cut in eighths
> 1/2 cup pitted black olives -- sliced
> 4 cups romaine lettuce -- torn
> ---Dressing---
> 3 tablespoons olive oil
> 3 tablespoons lemon juice
> 1 garlic clove -- pressed
> 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
> 1/4 teaspoon salt
> fresh ground black pepper -- to taste
> 1/2 cup feta cheese -- crumbled
>
> Combine chicken broth and barley. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer
> for 40 minutes until tender. Refrigerate until cool. Prepare
> vegetables and place into a large salad bowl. Add cooled barley. Whisk
> dressing ingredients together. Drizzle dressing on top, and toss. Top
> with feta cheese.
>
> Cuisine:
> "Greek"
> Source:
> "Alberta Barley Commission"
>
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