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Clean Eating Quinoa Recipe!

by Wendy Polisi August 26, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

For those of you who were miffed with my recent digression into steak recipes thanks to anemia, you will be happy to know that today I am sticking with cooking with quinoa. In fact, I am being extra good and sharing a clean eating quinoa recipe!
It has been a while since I posted a new [...]

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More Quinoa Cooking Ideas! Lamb Chops with Olive Quinoa

by Wendy Polisi August 24, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

Are you looking for quinoa cooking ideas? You have come to the right place! Today I want to share a new quinoa recipe for the carnivore’s out there.  While a lot of people that cook quinoa are vegetarians, it is now becoming so main stream that many people who enjoy meat are also cooking quinoa.  [...]

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More Recipes with Quinoa – Quinoa Meatballs!

by Wendy Polisi August 18, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

While I have to be honest and say that I don’t eat much meat (this is one reason I love cooking quinoa), the rest of my family does.  While my four and five year old boys like quinoa, but they aren’t about go vegetarian any time soon.  So, what better way to get them eating [...]

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Curried Quinoa Salad – A Great Cold Quinoa Salad!

by Wendy Polisi August 7, 2010 Main Dishes

Like quinoa, curry was not something that I grew up eating.  Because my mother does not care for curry, I actually never ate it until I was grown and had left home.  The first time I ever had curry was at an amazing (but sadly now defunct) casual restaurant and gourmet grocery store called Eatzi’s [...]

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Roasted Garlic Quinoa Salad – A Great Summer Quinoa Salad!

by Wendy Polisi August 7, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

You probably already know that I love cooking quinoa.  Quinoa soup, quinoa breakfast recipes – I love them all!  I must confess that I also REALLY love garlic.  In fact, my first step when I am tweaking recipes is always to add garlic.  I love the heat and the bite it ads. Years ago, when [...]

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Cold Quinoa Salad Recipes

by Wendy Polisi August 6, 2010 Main Dishes

It’s hot out there!  As the month of August is in full swing, I’ve gotten numerous requests over the last couple of weeks for cold quinoa salad recipes.  I have to admit that I fear that I am becoming a quinoa salad junkie.  I picked up some quinoa in the bulk bins at whole foods [...]

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Cooking with Quinoa – Preserved Lime Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi July 26, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

One of my favorite ways of cooking with quinoa is to take recipes that call for other grains and make them with quinoa.  Invariability I will make other changes as well, because I like my food to have a lot of kick to it. (Hence the 3 teaspoons of garlic here – if you aren’t [...]

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Wendy’s Favorite Quinoa Recipe – Balsamic Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi July 24, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

Most of the time, when I create a quinoa recipe, the inspiration comes from somewhere else.  I will see a great rice recipe and thing “Hmmm…I bet that would be better with quinoa.”  And then I have to add a few things and spice it up a bit. Since cooking quinoa is such a big [...]

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Quinoa Berry Crunch – A Great Quinoa Recipe!

by Wendy Polisi July 21, 2010 Main Dishes

Recently, I picked up Jilliann Michaels The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook. I was excited to find three really great quinoa recipes. (Not to mention a bunch of other really wonderful recipes! If you don’t already have the cookbook I highly recommend it!)  One that really caught my eye is the Greek Yogurt Cup with Quinoa [...]

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Quinoa Goat Cheese Risotto

by Wendy Polisi July 20, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

I am always on the lookout for new ways of cooking quinoa.  I have tried to cook quinoa many ways, but never as a risotto.  The inspiration for this recipe came from a recipe I found in Epicurious.com. (They have some great quinoa recipes!)   I made a few changes to it to spice it up [...]

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