Oh Canada Wild Rice!
As per The Plan, I picked up a cotton sack of On Canada Wild Rice to try at the Metro near my work. It is gathered and roasted locally, in Keewatin, Ontario.
It comes with a small recipe book, including with nutritional info and cooking instructions.
Wild rice is low in fat and high in protein, lysine (an amino acid) and dietary fiber. It is a good source of potassium, phosphorus, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. And importantly for me it is also gluten free!
It takes longer than traditional rice to cook, about 1 hour in total, but it was well worth the wait.
Incidently, it is also delicious! I served the wild rice with yellow thai curry and fresh greens. Wild rice is roasted, like coffee, and has a rich, nutty flavor. It's texture is a lot like long grain traditional rice, even though wild rice is biologically not related to traditional rice. Even my extra-picky partner gave wild rice a thumbs up!
After dinner I took Bismarck out for a walk. We chased this gaggle of Canada Geese out of the road.
Oh Canada!





