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?
Do youu have any video of that? I’d love to find out more details.