If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you probably know that I love quinoa, have for a long time, and certainly don’t need to be “converted” to it. But when I saw Adam’s Quinoa Converter recipe(and hilarious cartoon), I knew I wanted to give that recipe a try because it just looked so darn good.
I’ve made quinoa for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t understand how you couldn’t love it. Sure, it’s plain; that just makes it easier to add other flavors to spice it up. And yes, it is something of a “health food” food; Adam, if you’re reading this then you can have a laugh over the fact that I made this after coming home from yoga.
I only made a few changes to the recipe. I used 2 Tablespoons each of apple cider vinegar and olive oil for the vinegar and oil listed in the recipe to cut down on the fat. And instead of the fresh parsley I used about 2 Tablespoons of dried Herbes de Provence.
This reminded me a lot of tuna salad, which I used to love. I find vegetarian/vegan “tuna” salads are usually hit or miss, and this was definitely a hit. Swapping in mayo for the oil next time wouldn’t be a bad improvisation.
This was pretty damn delicious. Every time we have relatives over I usually make my vegan quinoa stuffing; now I have a new recipe to work into the rotation. If you still need convincing to try quinoa, try this recipe.
Very nice! Yummm. =)
I saw this recipe on Amateur Gourmet (I started reading him when I was in law school when he was in law school
so I am so glad someone else I know is reading him 
) and was curious about whether cutting down the oil would still make a good recipe. Good to know on the tuna salad “feel” – I miss tuna salad occasionally, so I will be sure to try it with some Vegenaise.
I don’t need to be converted, but this still looks great!
I loved quinoa from first bite. My body doesn’t always like it when I eat it, but it’s delicious! Going to have to try this recipe
Yum! Huge quinoa fan here as well. I need to give this recipe a try for sure!
Thanks for the link to the Gourmet’s website. Never heard of it before! I just noticed your URL is “.net”. Wondering if you think not having the more common “.com” address hinders your traffic or page views at all?