Remember when we told you about our top-secret project to bulk up our bulk bin recipes? You guys really stepped up and answered our call -- thank you! Below are the recipes we've chosen for Editors' Pick testing. You may now call dibs on the recipes you'd like to test -- we only need one person to test each recipe, but feel free to call as many as you want -- there are lots to go around!
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Any food52 member is welcome to help us test our Editors' Pick candidates, so go call dibs on the recipe you'd like to test in the comments section below! We'd love to see some new testers in the mix. Don't forget to email us your notes (about 100 words) to [email protected] by next Tuesday at 5pm.
We'll collect your comments, decide the official list of Editors' Picks and publish your evaluation in the headnote if the recipe is selected as an Editors' Pick (with credit, of course!). And even if the recipe you test isn't chosen as an Editors' Pick, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
- RICE
- Bhutanese Red Rice, Millet, and Oat Breakfast Pudding CLAIMED
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Shangri-La Rice Pudding CLAIMED
- Long Grain Brown Rice with Black Quinoa CLAIMED
- A Recipe for Long Grain Brown Rice Pilaf (Vegan, Gluten Free) CLAIMED
- Brown Rice and Banana Congee CLAIMED
- Roasted Cauliflower Brown Rice Risotto with Lemon, Walnut and Mascarpone CLAIMED
- Butternut Squash Risotto with Brown Rice CLAIMED
- Sephardic Megedarra with Garlicky Brown Rice Pilaf CLAIMED
- Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge
- Savory Cooked Rice Sandwich Bread CLAIMED
- Brown Rice Jambalaya-ish CLAIMED
- Kimchi Fried Brown Rice CLAIMED
- Sweet and Savory Porridge with Almonds and Cardamom CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Mixed Rice Sweet Congee CLAIMED
- Purple Tai Rice Cooker Sticky Rice CLAIMED
- Volcano Rice Tabouli Salad CLAIMED
- OTHER GRAINS
- Stuffed Red Pepper Shells with Couscous, Forbidden Rice, Kamut or Quinoa CLAIMED
- Red Tabbouleh CLAIMED
- Warm Red Quinoa and Squash Salad CLAIMED
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Red Quinoa Peach Porridge CLAIMED
- Spicy Black Bean and Quinoa Salad CLAIMED
- Black Quinoa Salad with Grilled Vegetables, Basil, Feta and Pine Nuts CLAIMED
- Amaranth Tabouli CLAIMED
- Cherry and Amaranth Dessert Casserole CLAIMED
- Mushroom Ginger Soup with Hulled Barley CLAIMED
- Barley Bowl CLAIMED
- Gatherer's Pie CLAIMED
- Avena con Champiñones/Oats with Mushrooms CLAIMED
- Peas Porridge Hot (Oat Risotto with Peas) CLAIMED
- BEANS AND LENTILS
- Anasazi Beans with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds and Cotija Cheese CLAIMED
- Rio Zape Beans with Toasted Chili Sauce CLAIMED
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Slightly Smoky Mixed-Bean Chili CLAIMED
- Best Boston Baked Beans CLAIMED
- Simple Seasoned Adzuki Beans CLAIMED
- Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon CLAIMED
- Red Bean Espresso Brownies CLAIMED
- Red Rice and Beans CLAIMED
- Spicy Stewed Black Eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas
- Black-eyed Pea Cassoulet CLAIMED
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Jalapeno and Black-eyed Pea Fondue CLAIMED
- Slow Cooker Hoppin’ John CLAIMED
- 4th of July Baby Limas, Barbeque Style CLAIMED
- Christmas Risotto CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Shrimp Soup CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Butternut Squash Stew CLAIMED
- Savory Mung Bean Crepes CLAIMED
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Yellow Split Pea Soup CLAIMED
- Chana Dal (Lentil Curry) Begnali Style CLAIMED
- Tri-Colored Lentil Soup CLAIMED
- Porky’s Peas CLAIMED
- Split Pea Soup for a Winter’s Day CLAIMED
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Bisi Bela CLAIMED
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10-12-12-12 (Sprouted) Lentil Soup CLAIMED
- SEEDS
- Breakfast Chia Seed Pudding CLAIMED
- Sweet Rice with Mango, Chia and Black Sesame CLAIMED
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Meyer Lemon Chia Seed Pudding CLAIMED
- Chia-Mint-Yogurt Dip CLAIMED
- Seeded Skillet Cookie CLAIMED
- Steel Cut Oats Mash Up CLAIMED
- Granola for Fellow “Granolas” CLAIMED
- Schichimi Edamame CLAIMED
- Swiss Bircher Muesli CLAIMED
- Tres Leches Oatmeal CLAIMED
- Blueberry Smoothie CLAIMED
- Power Bread CLAIMED
- Flax Seed Potato Bread CLAIMED
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Burnt O.
March 28, 2011
Perhaps we could have a special "Editor's Pick Hero Award" for the cook who volunteered to take on the most dishes this round. I applaud those who had the time, energy and hungry households to make more than a dish or two! Some took on five or more! (AntoniaJames). I only did 2, but I'll have healthy whole grain lunch leftovers all week. Yum.
goldenblind221
March 28, 2011
I'll take the sweet and savory whole oat and sweet brown rice porridge. Mm, breakfast!
monkeymom
March 28, 2011
I'll take on the Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas.
Helen's A.
March 28, 2011
Thanks for testing this! Feel free to add as much or little chipotle as you like. It's pretty spicy with the amount specified. Hope you enjoy it.
Food52
March 28, 2011
Thank you all for generously leaping to test this record number of Editors' Pick candidates -- yet another example of the power of the food52 community at work, making a rather confusing system work seamlessly. Just two recipes are left: Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge; Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas
Sagegreen
March 28, 2011
I can do Mung Bean and Mixed Rice Sweet Congee tonight, thanks to a friend who just gave me forbidden rice and mung beans.
wssmom
March 28, 2011
Jalapeno and Black-Eyed Pea fondue is me, then, as I am on an island off the southwest coast of Florida and the ingredients seems readily available at the local Publix lol
wssmom
March 28, 2011
Is there anything left to test (sorry, i was travelling all weekend and without a computer until this morning, which was very stressful. The being without the computer part, not the travelling part haha).
hardlikearmour
March 28, 2011
Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge, Mung Bean and Sweet Rice Congee, Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas, and Jalepeno and Black-eyed Pea Fondue appear to be left.
susan G.
March 27, 2011
I would love to have claimed more recipes, but not having all the ingredients (red quinoa, not black, for instance) made me ineligible. No wallflowers here, but trying them with current inventory.
nutcakes
March 27, 2011
I will make the Meyer Lemon Chia Seed Pudding and the 10-12-12-12 sprouted lentil soup.
TiggyBee
March 27, 2011
OK...I've got my ricotta EP candidate in the oven, the porky pea soup simmering on the stove, a new recipe ready to upload and a rainy Sunday afternoon...I'll tackle the short grain rice and black quinoa...
PS. I think the bisi bela was claimed by Jennifer Ann, so that's one more to scratch off the list.
PS. I think the bisi bela was claimed by Jennifer Ann, so that's one more to scratch off the list.
gingerroot
March 27, 2011
I'll also try the Shangri-La Rice pudding...we're having friends over tonight and this looks perfect for dessert.
Panfusine
March 27, 2011
boo hooo!! I'm officially in the pity picks!!! Ah well There's my Sephardic Mejjedara to try & Savor! & the Syrian Kanafe for dessert!
Sagegreen
March 27, 2011
Oh, I can keep you company, too. This almost feels like high school dances when you don't get asked...or am I dating myself?
hardlikearmour
March 27, 2011
Panfusine, Jennifer Ann has chosen your recipe - it just hasn't gotten a claimed tag!
Hippo F.
March 26, 2011
I am excited to see that my recipe, Volcano Rice Tabouli Salad, is up for testing. I see it has been claimed but I don't see the comment claiming it. Was it tagged by accident?
Thanks
Robin
Thanks
Robin
Hippo F.
March 26, 2011
Oops, that's what I get for using the search function to see who claimed it. Hope they like it.
enbe
March 26, 2011
I'm in the mood for some chili. Count me in for Slightly Smoky Mixed-Bean Chili please.
CalcuttaChow
March 26, 2011
i would love to do the red quinoa peach porridge. what an interesting use for red quinoa.
MHardison79
March 26, 2011
I'll take the Brown Rice and Banana Congee, if it hasnt been claimed yet.
Sagegreen
March 26, 2011
I just located purple rice, so I can volunteer to do the Purple Tai Rice Cooker Sticky Rice. Thanks.
hardlikearmour
March 26, 2011
I can also do the Bhutanese Red Rice, Millet, and Oat Breakfast Pudding
goldenblind221
March 26, 2011
I would also like to do tres leches oatmeal and the volvano rice tabouleh. Thanks!
Food52
March 26, 2011
Hey everyone -- as you continue to call dibs, please check out the ones that have/have not been "CLAIMED". We'd love it if we were able to have them all tested! So, have at those that aren't yet taken, if you would (as of 9 am EST). Thanks!
Panfusine
March 26, 2011
This is a fabulous idea.. saves us the time of scrolling through the responses (which in the excitement of picking a recipe, very easy to miss the posts! Thank you
hardlikearmour
March 25, 2011
I will do Power bread & Sweet and Savory Porridge w/ Almonds and Cardamom.
goldenblind221
March 25, 2011
Christmas Risotto, how is it you have not yet been snagged? I'd love to try this one out.
AntoniaJames
March 25, 2011
And the Long Grain Rice Pilaf. If anyone else really wants to try any of the 5 that I've claimed today, please let me know. ;o)
AntoniaJames
March 25, 2011
And I'll also do the Warm Red Quinoa Salad, and the Split Pea Soup for a Winter's Day, in addition to the others I signed up for this morning. Thanks! ;o)
Caragreg
March 25, 2011
Black Quinoa Salad with Grilled Vegetables, Basil, Feta and Pine Nuts please (if not taken)
Food52
March 25, 2011
Hey everyone -- we just tried to make it easier to call dibs by marking off the ones that have been claimed (as of 4pm EST Friday 3/25). We'll try to stay on top of updating the newly claimed ones later this evening and tomorrow morning.
hardlikearmour
March 25, 2011
I don't have time to look through the options, but will check back in after work and nab at least one recipe if they are not all taken!
sarah K.
March 25, 2011
Uh, how important is it to use the exact type of beans called for? I have anasazi beans on order, but haven't found them locally. Can Is substitute cranberry beans?
Food52
March 25, 2011
We'd really like to have them tested with the bean/grain called for if possible -- how long before the anasazis get to you?
sarah K.
March 25, 2011
I wanna try the anasazi beans with pumpkin seed and cotija. Wow, that sounds great. Also, best Boston baked beans.
aargersi
March 25, 2011
OK I would also like to call dibs on the 4th of July Baby Limas, Barbeque Style
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Lori L.
March 25, 2011
I've been wanting to make red beans and rice. I'd love to test this recipe. Thanks!
Jaynerly
March 25, 2011
Difficult choice, so many I like the sound of! Can I test the Spicy Black Bean and Quinoa Salad?
healthierkitchen
March 25, 2011
If it's OK, I'd also love betteirene's Mung bean and shrimp soup - sounds so different and delicious!
healthierkitchen
March 25, 2011
Love to test gingerroot's Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon
WinnieAb
March 25, 2011
I'll take the Cooked Rice Sandwich Bread and the Granola for Fellow Granolas!
fiveandspice
March 25, 2011
Okay, I can eat all the ingredients in Gingerroot's sweet rice with mango, chia and black sesame, so I'll test that. And since I'm picking up chia, I'll also test the seeded skillet cookie, please.
AntoniaJames
March 25, 2011
I just noticed that we can sign up for as many as we like! I'll also try the Steel Cut Oats Mash Up, too, please. Seriously, I could try one from the list per day for three weeks and be very happy, indeed. Thanks! ;o)
VanessaS
March 25, 2011
I would like to try the Mung Bean and Butternut Squash Stew and Swiss Bircher Muesli please!
drbabs
March 25, 2011
So fun--I'll take the Brown Rice Jambalaya-ish!
healthierkitchen
March 25, 2011
Hope you like it drbabs! I just made it again this past weekend for a gathering of a few families - friends of my son who was home from college. I used crayfish, shrimp and andouille this time.
drbabs
March 25, 2011
I don't know if I'll be able to get andouille, but I have some good Gulf shrimp in my freezer--so excited!
Marnely
March 25, 2011
I'll take the Oats and Mushrooms! Love the idea of having savory oatmeal!!! Can't wait to try it!
boulangere
March 25, 2011
And also Mushroom Ginger Soup with Hulled Barley. Have I grabbed too many?
Burnt O.
March 25, 2011
I'll glady take gingerroot's cauliflower risotto too. I've been eyeing that for a week now!
AntoniaJames
March 25, 2011
Oh me, oh my . . . so many choices! I've had my eye on WinnieAb's Simply Seasoned Adzuki Beans, so I'll gladly try that, please. Thank you! ;o) P.S. I'll be back to sign up for more, if there are any left at the end of the day. I am just thrilled to see this fabulous array of great recipes using so many of my favorite ingredients.
Burnt O.
March 25, 2011
I'll take the Fresh Stuffed Red Peppers! I have to bring a salad to a dinner tonight. Just grilled steaks with the neighbors - but this will be great.
aargersi
March 25, 2011
I would like to try the Amaranth Tabouli please! Have never tried amaranth before!
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