wheat berries

it's wheat.
it's berries.
it's ... well, no, really, it's wheat, and they call it berries for no apparent reason.

after boiling, soaking, and boiling again, the plain wheat berries were a pleasant chewy blandness, much like oatmeal.

with flavors added, they were pretty decent.
this picture, like the celery root's, is kind of cruddy. sorry. i was trying to get back to the tv in time for figure skating (which ended up being way later, anyway. sadness.) the recipe is from the february 2010 issue of martha stewart living. it's not up on their site yet, but there's a whole feature on walnuts at the end of the magazine. this was a salad of wheat berries, walnuts, dates, celery, and orange juice vinaigrette. quite yummy. it tastes like breakfast, even with the celery. the first bite made me think "candy salad". then it equalized to a more normal porridge-y flavor.

next-day follow-up: people at work liked it, and so did i. and you could probably take the basic idea and mix in just about anything with good results.