Originally Posted By: Argo44
Is that wild rice, Ted? One of my favorite vegetables (and it is a veggie, not a grain). My wife makes an amazing wild-rice salad...almost a nutty flavor.


I think wild rice is actually a member of the grass family. This is local stuff, bought in bulk from one of the tribes, guessing the Red Lake Band, since, that is where I got it. It isnt labeled.
Wild rice is a very labor intensive food to produce. I have friends that harvest it locally, it involves two people in a canoe, and, mosquitoes.

My wife ate medium grain rice almost daily in her previous life. Ive introduced her to wild rice, potatos, and grilled food. Probably some other stuff, too, but it escapes me at the moment.

She took to it like a baby duck to water.

Best,
Ted