I Dare You To Eat It

Fresh Ingredients

2 cups shredded carrots

4 eggs

1 cup sour cream

Storage Ingredients

1 box spice cake mix (18.25 oz.)

1 box instant butterscotch pudding (3.4 oz.)

1 cup water

3/4 cup oil

1 can crushed pineapple (8 oz.)

Spray a 5 qt. slow cooker with butter flavored cooking spray. Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 min. Transfer to slow cooker. Cover the top of the slow cooker with a few paper towels and then cover with the lid. This will keep the condensation that forms on the lid from dripping back onto the cake. Cook on LOW for 4 1/2 to 6 hours. Serve warm.

My dear friend Melanie served this cake for dessert after one of my food storage presentations in Las Vegas. She found the recipe on the Food Network, from Sandra Lee. Everyone loved this ultra-moist-melt-in-your-mouth carrot pudding style cake, especially with vanilla ice cream melting on top of each serving! That night we talked about the possibility of substituting dehydrated carrots that were ground up similar to shredded carrots and figured it would work just as well. I’m going to give it a try. This was an amazing dessert!

But as you can see from the picture, I’m able to cook 4 cups of wheat in 10 cups of water with a tablespoon of salt, for 12 cups of whole wheat berries and still have plenty of room in this new slow cooker. My life is so cool. I’m trying to cook this much wheat about every ten days so that I always have it prepared and ready to add to recipes. The very first step to eating wheat is to start cooking wheat.

Here’s a short list of new recipes I’ve found. They all sound wonderful. I can’t tell you how sick I am of Ranch dressing.

www.phoenixmag.com/dining/recipes/200807/summer-wheat-berry-salad/ for Summer Wheat Berry Salad

http://able2know.org/topic/11173-1 for Citrus Chicken Wheat Berry Salad

http://www.bhg.com/recipe/salads/sesame-ginger-wheat-berry-salad/ for Sesame-Ginger Wheat Berry Salad

http://www.foodtv.ca/recipes/recipedetails.aspx?dishid=8933 for Wheat Berry Vegetable Salad

http://hiphostess.wordpress.com/category/recipes/salads for Arugula, Goat Cheese & Green Olive Wheat Berry Salad (love the name, photo looks like heck, I should talk)

Now this is the way to introduce your family to wheat berries.