• 1½ cups cooked Chieftain Wild Rice
• ½ cup finely chopped leek
• 2 tablespoons butter
• ¼ cup finely chopped parsley
• 1 cup finely chopped spinach or ½ package frozen spinach, thawed and drained
• ¾ tablespoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• ¼ cup finely chopped walnuts
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup light cream or half and half
• 1 9-inch pie crust
• Plain yogurt or dairy sour cream

Sauté the leeks in the butter, about 2 minutes. Combine this with the cooked wild rice, parsley, spinach, salt, pepper and walnuts. Add the eggs and light cream -mix well.

Pour the mixture into pie crust; bake at 425° for 10 minutes. Let stand approximately 15 minutes. Serve as a main dish with a dollop of yogurt or dairy sour cream. Serves 6 to 8 people.

• 1 cup cooked Chieftain Wild Rice
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 5 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup milk
• 1¼ cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoon sugar
• 1 cup blueberries

Stir the wild rice with the eggs, oil and milk. Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugar. Stir the liquid ingredients into the dry, mixing thoroughly, but only until the ingredients are blended. Stir in the blueberries and spoon batter into 1½ dozen lightly greased muffin cups. Bake at 425° for 15 to 18 minutes, or until muffins are lightly browned.

Variations: Omit blueberries entirely or substitute chopped nuts, chopped rhubarb or well-drained pineapple for the blueberries.

• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 4 eggs beaten
• 5 cups flour
• 5 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups buttermilk
• 2 cups boiling water
• 2½ cups 100% bran
• 3½ cups bran flakes
• 1 cup Festival Blend with Maple/Apple Seasoning prepared with ½ cup brown sugar and cool.
• Raisins, cranberries, or nuts

Pour boiling water over 100% bran and let stand for 5 minutes. Cream together sugar, shortening, and eggs. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and butter milk. Stir in bran, bran flakes, Festival Blend, raisins, cranberries or nuts. Pour into muffin tins and bake at 400° for 15 minutes. The batter will keep in refrigerator up to 6 weeks. Bake as many as needed.

Makes approximately 5 dozen muffins

Cook desired amount of Festival Blend with Maple/Apple Seasoning according to directions. Prepare your favorite pancake recipe. Blend in cooked Festival Blend to the pancake batter, to desired consistency. (It depends on how thick you want the rice to be in the pancake.) Grill pancakes and serve with maple syrup, which enhances the seasoning flavor in the rice.