Farro Soup

This is an excellent main dish soup -- and it has the added virtue of making use of any leftover farrotto (p. 199). This is a hearty and healthy soup -- porridge-like and very filling. Nice finish with EVOO and pepper.

Includes the trifecta of the flavors I crave in winter -- bitter greens, nutty whole grains and creamy white beans.

If I have any quibble at all, it is that the recipe calls for a cup rather than a can of white beans. For cookbook challenges, I do try to follow the recipe as written so that I can get a good approximation of the flavors and balance the recipe author is going for. As a result -- I have about a 1/4 can of white beans I need to find a use for. Well ... there are worse problems to have.

Served with Zuni's sage grilled cheese sandwich -- my husband loved the combo, but I thought the kale and sage competed with one another. Next time, I will make some kind of citrus salad to go with this soup.

Finished off the bottle of French red that went with last night's farrotto -- it was good with the latter, but I would have preferred an Italian white with this soup and sandwich.