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Quinoa Salad

More Healthy Quinoa Recipes – Fiesta Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi September 6, 2010 Quinoa Recipes

With the holiday weekend I have been in a festive mood, so I decided to come up with a fun new quinoa salad that was just a little bit different.  I just love coming up with new healthy quinoa recipes.  My inspiration came from a rice salad recipe that I found in Oxygen Magazine.  The [...]

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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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Grilled Vegetable Salad with Quinoa – Among the Best Quinoa Salad Recipes

by Wendy Polisi August 17, 2010 Quinoa Salad

If you have been following Cooking Quinoa over the summer, you know that I am really digging quinoa salad recipes right now.  In fact, I think I have found some of the best quinoa salad recipes that there are!  Of course, I am always on the lookout for more.
The inspiration for this dish [...]

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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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Southwestern Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi July 18, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

While the boys were in the pool today, I decided to throw together a quinoa salad. It is hot here today, (103 on its way to 110…yikes…It may be a dry heat but it is still hotter than h*ll) and the idea of something cool sounded good. I usually don’t hesitate to jump [...]

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Greek Red Quinoa Salad Recipe

by Wendy Polisi July 15, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

If you are like me and love cooking quinoa, you are going to love this recipe. It is the perfect quinoa salad for summer time. Light and fresh, it is low on oil meaning you can enjoy it guilt free. One thing to remember is that since it has lettuce in it, [...]

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