What's the big deal about quinoa?

[AWAWA Liz]

It used to be touted as a super food and now it's just basic food.

SO, is it any better or worse than rice as a grain?

[Masque]

Always wash the quinoa really good with cold water before you cook it, with a fine-mesh strainer. It will taste like dirt otherwise.

Use this, and rinse well, under running water, for a good five minutes:

https://www.amazon.com/Winco-CCS-12F-Strainer-12-Inch-Diameter/dp/B001CDRHLY/

My former restaurant made it, both sweet for breakfast -- made with cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, dried cherries, cream -- and savory for a dinner side. Both are incredible.

Also it's not technically a grain.

It was recently "discovered" and promoted for the "developing" world, the poor nations, where stuff is hard to grow because of soil and climate -- and became expensive when it became trendy among the rich. Ironic, isn't it? Now the developing world grows it but can't afford it, and just export what they grow because it's worth more as money from rich arugula-eaters and trend-followers than it is for actual food value. Quite ironic. I don't know what they're going to do for heat when the trendy people decide to start burning dried animal dung.

[Arvaos]

Angel eredeti hozzászólása:

I eat quinoa for muscle building when working out. It has protein and amino acids but you can also get these from other foods and supplements.

I'll stick to the whole milk, mass gainers and chocolate flaojacks for post workout.

[AWAWA Liz]

Annabel Lee eredeti hozzászólása:

l1z4rdbr34th eredeti hozzászólása:

What annoys me is how expensive quinoa can be.

The texture annoys me more... but I do find it comical when people get all huffy about how I pronounce it.

Keen-wah!

I'm guessing for you it's keen-o-wah.