Magical millet, back from the dead!

[dreamshark]

Back in the 70's and 80's, when I lived near Seward Coop, we ate a lot of brown rice. But sometimes you don't feel like waiting for 45 minutes for the brown rice to cook, and that's where millet comes in. It cooks in less than half the time, and does pretty much anything brown rice can do but with less gravitas. Millet is so sunny and fluffy and happy that it hardly even feels like a Healthy Whole Grain. Anyway, when we moved to the west side of town we moved a couple of jars of it with us, and then kind of forgot about it. Anyway, I can't remember the last time I cooked millet, but there it was on the shelf with the rice and beans, just taking up space. There is even a jar of what appears to be RED millet, although I have no idea why I bought that. Probably because it just looked so pretty in the tall clear containers at the coop. 

It had been there so long, I was in favor of throwing it out or feeding it to the birds, but Richard protested at the idea of wasting food, even decades old food. I sniffed it and it smelled fine - none of that musty smell you get with rancid oils. So I threw a cup of it into the Instant Pot with 1-3/4 cup water, cooked it for 10 minutes, and voila! 



Not having a stir fry to serve it with, I tarted it up with butter and ground nuts and a little bit of syrup and had Breakfast for Lunch. OMG, I had forgotten how great millet is! Maybe I'll try the red millet next.