REV: Orzo Salad with Marinated Mushrooms and Edamame J/F 03

[greysangel]

YUM!

Just one small thing...I served this room temperature instead of cold as DH has an aversion to anything remotely resembling a salad. The mushroom mixture sat in the fridge all day and then I just cooked the orzo in the evening and tossed it with the marinade mixture. It worked and both of us liked this quite a bit. Next time I would up the seasoning component as I like it bold and zesty :cool:

And it was my first time trying edamame...YUM!

JeAnne

[phantomcg]

I'm so glad to hear that this is good at room temperature! I made this yesterday for lunches this week. I ate some today (cold) and really, really liked it. I didn't have any red peppers, so I just left them out. I do think that they would have added quite a bit to the texture of the dish if I'd had them.

I love edamame!!!

Cheryl

[Peggy]

This salad is really good ! I made it as a side dish for dinner last night and we all had seconds. This is my second recipe using edamame in less than a week. Prior to that, we were edamame virgins!!;) Now we are converts!

Peggy

[KelLeg]

For all of you edamame virgins, I would recommend just boiling some for a snack. They are great. I put some salt and chili powder on them. Yum.

[emily]

I made a variation of this salad last night. I used a jar of marinated mushrooms that I had bought on a whim at a road side stand, included all the juice, which was vinegar based, and then added all the other ingredients. I never would have thought of combining those ingredients into a salad without this recipe and y'all's recommendation! So while I can't actually comment on the CL recipe, mine was really simple to throw together and was quite tasty. The contrasting textures of all the ingredients was really great. :)

Emily

[Jessica]

We had this salad at our last supper club meeting and everyone liked it. I think it would make a great picnic salad--something a little different and the colors make a nice presentation.

I agree that it could use a little more spice, but it worked for us because the other dishes were very flavorful.

[jjsooner73]

Yay! Seeing the positive review made up my mind on this one. I'm going to make this for my next supper club meeting in 2 weeks, the theme is vegetarian. I needed something I could make in a hurry and ahead of time, as I'm attending a baby shower the same day.
I'll post back reviews then...

[jjsooner73]

I have a question for those of you who would up the spice a bit. What would you use? Would you just increase some of the spices already in it, or add something like a bit of cayenne?

[JLS]

I made this tonight, for lunch tomorrow. Although, I've only tasted it warm, it is REALLY REALLY GOOD! :) I cannot wait to see what it tastes like chilled.