quinoa salad recipe – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg quinoa salad recipe – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Quinoa Salad with Tomato and Corn http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/cooking-for-two-quinoa-tomato-and-corn-salad/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/cooking-for-two-quinoa-tomato-and-corn-salad/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:00:51 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=2758 Quinoa was a mystery to me until less than a year ago, as was the idea of a quinoa salad. I didn’t even know how to say the word. Keen-wah! I just thought it was one of those super health foods that you had to be a super health nut to eat, and therefore I wasn’t really interested. I know, that’s bad. I do try to live a pretty healthy lifestyle, but I also try not to take it to the extreme. Maybe it’s because I think it would be too easy to get obsessed with it all. Maybe its because I think the exceptionally nutritious stuff might not taste as good. Maybe I don’t really want to think about it when I’m trying to maneuver my way through a barbecue bacon cheeseburger. Someone get this girl some help. Enter quinoa, the mystery seed. Not quite a grain, not quite a cereal (it’s actually classified as a pseudo-cereal), but quite healthy indeed. It’s a complete protein source (which means it has a balanced set of amino acids that are essential for us), it’s high in fiber, calcium and iron, and it’s gluten-free. It seems that quinoa is kind of an […]

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