A number of you emailed me about the farro platter pictured in the baby shower post from last Sunday (apparently a least some of you aren't tired of grains and peas yet ;). While there are a few different components at play here, the great thing about it was being able to prep it two days in advance. This left me free to do other things the day of the celebration - like sleep in. What's in it? I used farro as the base along with my favorite citrus dressing, roasted spring onions, yellow split peas, fresh peas, a bit of mixed salad greens, and a touch of goat cheese. I see some chives snuck into the photo as well.

For those of you looking for a quick, on-the-fly meal, this isn't it. That is unless you have the components prepped (i.e. the dressing, the farro cooked, etc). If this is the case, you're golden, and you can throw everything together in a flash.

One other important thing to remember - you can remix a salad like this a thousand different ways to suit your tastes or season. A month or so from now I might trade the salad greens for basil leaves and use tiny, roasted, yellow tomatoes in place of the spring onions. that being said, the dark roasted, caramelized spring onions I used this time around added a depth to this salad that was hard to beat. Can't find farro? No worries. You can certainly use wheat berries or pearl barley as the base, millet might be a tasty choice as well.