This is not about sports

If I ever start writing about food enough, I might just start a food blog, but since I'm only trying to share the one recipe right now and this felt like the easiest way. Apologies to anybody who accidentally stumbled across this hoping to find old and infrequent ramblings about balls.

Winter Wheat Berry Salad

this was originally posted in the user comments of this post on The Kitchn blog. I would just link to it, but I also wanted to share my modifications because I liked the way it turned out.

1 c. hard wheat berries
½ c. dried cranberries
1 large apple, peeled and finely diced
1 stalk celery, finely diced
½ c. finely minced parsley
1/3 c. toasted pecan pieces
1 green onion, thinly sliced

Vinaigrette:
Zest of ½ orange
Juice of 1 whole orange
Juice of ½ lemon
2 tbsp. white wine vinegar
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. honey
Salt and pepper to taste
Freshly grated nutmeg

Place wheat berries in a large saucepan and cover with several inches of water. Bring to a boil and simmer, uncovered, for 45 to 60 minutes until tender. Drain and cool completely. Toast the pecan pieces until fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Cool.

In a large bowl combine the wheat berries, cranberries, apple, celery, parsley, pecans and green onion.

In a screw-top jar combine vinaigrette ingredients. Coat salad with vinaigrette and season to taste.

My modifications:
Since I had no celery on hand, I added an extra green onion, a shallot, and two cloves of garlic. I'm also not a huge fan of raw oniony flavor, so I gently sweated those veggies (just the white parts of the onion... I added the green bits after it cooled) while the wheat berries were cooking. I used about a tablespoon of oil to cook the veggies in, so I reduced the amount in the vinaigrette accordingly.
I also didn't have any regular oranges or lemons, so I substituted clementines and upped the vinegar VERY slightly to balance the extra sweetness.
I also used two small apples instead of one large one, so my proportions were probably slightly off, but I really liked it. I probably used a bit more pecans than the recipe called for, too!