When I was doing my gung-ho planning for my detox I bought buckwheat.  I hadn’t tried it in a long time, couldn’t remember what it tasted like but thought, maybe this time I’ll make it work. 

I guess since I’ve been publishing recipes here on this blog and here, I feel a responsibility to get out front and try things that aren’t mainstream instantly likeable foods.  Call me crazy but I’m just not big on basic hippy food and would rather eat yummy things, yes, even with I’m detoxing. 

I really want to like buckwheat because it’s one of the grains you can eat silly on the Wild Rose D-Tox, along with millet and brown rice.  Since I’m not a huge fan of millet  I wanted to see if buckwheat and I could be friends.

So I fried up some onions and garlic  (everything is better with onions and garlic right?), put in the water and buckwheat, let it simmer until the water was gone, took a taste and BLUCK!  The stuff is HORRIBLE! 

And then I took a deep breath.  I thought maybe there was a chance though that I wasn’t seeing it’s positive qualities.  So I gave a taste to HoneyBunny and he said, YUCK, that stuff is HORRIBLE!  Good to know it wasn’t just me.

Later he was still cursing me because he couldn’t get the taste out of his mouth.  I guess I”ll stick with brown rice after all.  (sigh)  So the buckwheat became a contribution to the composter.

Luckily there are yummy detox-friendly things to eat.  I saw this recipe in January’s Shape magazine, and it’s a good one that won’t leave a bad taste in your mouth:

Bean Topping

Saute 1/2 c chopped onion in 2 T oil.  Add 1 t rosemary, 1/2 c broth and 15 oz of white beans.  Cook for 5 minutes until the broth is reduced and/or thickened.  Add salt, pepper, some chopped parsley (I used cilantro) and lemon zest to your taste.

The recipe says to slice some tomatoes, place on top of crostini bread and top with pine nuts.  I don’t see a mention of pine nuts in the official detox cookbook (hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts do appear.  Pecans and pistashios are on the 80% food list in the cookbook, but I see they’ve taken those off of the recent food list in my detox box).  So anyhoo, you could use any of those, I didn’t, but I did eat the bean thing on rice cakes and again later on brown rice.  Much tastier than buckwheat.