bitful

Last week I have become the proud yet puzzled owner of 500 grams of quinoa.

I know that it's good for you, and that it's packed full of Omega-somethings, and the pack claims it is a healthy and nutricious replacement for pasta (which, despite my Italian origins, I cannot digest - euphemism for 'pasta gives me the shits'), but… what the heck do you do with quinoa? Is it actually eaten outside Gillian McKeith's Scottish fief?

Given its size, I'm opting for some sort of cous-coussy usage. No?

T'internet says:

• Recipes matching "quinoa"
• Kake's (Vegan) Cookery Site - Ingredients - Grains - Quinoa
• Quinoa Recipes

But somehow I found it hard to find any recipes with quinoa that are not vegan, and I can't help thinking that if you have to name a recipe 'Quinoa Fun Fruit Dessert' and insert it in a book entitled 'God's Banquet Table', it is bound to taste and feel like cardboard.

I foresee for my new packet of quinoa a very long and happy future at the back of the kitchen cupboard - till best-by date do us part.

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