health food

Oct 5, 2011

Hearing the wonders of Quinoa (do not try to pronounce this at home – its keen-wah) as a plant-based food that is also high in protein, I decided to give it a try. Quinoa 365 was to be my ticket to a new way of eating.

But not so. It reminds me of that episode of Friends where Monica gets hired to write recipes for a vile chocolate substitute and she writes them to include only miniscule amounts of the stuff. I understand that Quinoa packs a powerful punch, but the small quantity means the recipes require actual cooking skill and ingredients I don’t already have in my kitchen. I don’t even