Kasha (Roasted Buckwheat) Salad with Kielbasa

Kasha is roasted (or toasted) buckwheat*. So far so good. What is odd about buckwheat is that it is not actually a type of wheat at all, but rather a cousin of the rhubarb family. It gets treated as a grain, however, hence its inclusion in this chapter. It is healthy stuff, and so it is much beloved by the gluten intolerant, not to mention swathes of Eastern Europe and Russia, where is it more or less a national carbohydrate institution.

You can use whole (unroasted) buckwheat (whic