Tuesday, January 24, 2012 for the love of quinoa
I am on a good-for-me food kick lately. Perhaps it started around Christmas when during the winter break I was able to take more time to prepare meals. Since then M. and I have eaten dinner at the table every night, with candles, placemats, cloth napkins, and nice music or simply quiet, rather than sitting in front of the television. And I love this new practice for the two of us. Another habit we are keeping up with are our walk/runs several times a week. He jogs back and forth to meet me while I fast walk.
This morning for breakfast I made cinnamon quinoa based from Heidi's recipe. So good. It stuck with me, which oatmeal does not.
My new favorite pasta is the quinoa pasta by Ancient Harvest. We attended a fabulous dinner party (great company and amazing food) over the weekend and I had that pasta for the first time, it has the best texture and is gluten free.
Recently I signed up for Amy Chaplin's newsletter and like her healthful food tips and her essentials pantry pdf. A couple weeks ago we made her creamy cauliflower soup with greens, using kale from our garden. The recipe is in the January issue of MSL and on her blog.
I am enjoying the The Cook without a Book Cookbook by Pam Anderson and like her lentils recipe for soft tacos and twice we have made the skillet potatoes and eggs for breakfast. She gives lots of ingredient options and suggests pairings in the recipes which are very flexible based on what we have on hand.
Sunday night we made (pork-free) Posole based on a recipe in Bon Appetit, but served it over polenta rather than using hominy. (didn't have hominy) It is very good and am glad we still have leftovers.
I am happy there is now an e-subscription available for Vegetarian Times!
Plus I am making a little list of nuts, seeds, and powders to order from nuts.com. Including chia seeds.
Sunday I started some alfalfa seeds in our sprouter. Looking forward to those.
And I think that's it from me for now. How about you, any food bits you want to share? Have you made anything lately that is so good you'll make it again?
Reader Comments (8)
great recipes heather! i'm totally going to try heidi's cinnamon quinoa. i made some hulled barley last week (finally remembered to soak it overnight, it's much harder than regular pearl barley and i bought it by accident once) and have been using it with all kinds of dishes. my favorite from the weekend was a roasted chickpea/garlic/broccoli dish and chili/cornmeal crusted fried tofu. so yum.
have you seen these 10 weeknight chickpea dishes at the kitchn?
http://www.thekitchn.com/-recipes-with-chickpeas-164761
i want to see a peek of that cookbook.
Mmm, the chili/cornmeal crusted fried tofu sounds good. I have been wanting to make a crusted tofu lately. Thanks Julia!
Shari- no I haven't seen those, thanks for the link. The chickpea curry looks like something M. would really like. And I know, sorry, I really haven't forgotten!
Thanks for the quinoa tip. I've been looking for another protein source for a picky four year old.
We enjoyed making egg salad together last week (6 eggs, 1/3 c mayo, 1 T dijon mustard, 1 heaping T sweet pickle relish, about 1/4 c red onion, and about 1/4 c celery). She liked cracking and cutting up the eggs, but she would only try a tiny mouse-sized nibble. Maybe next time. I have a source for local farm-fresh eggs from free-range chickens now, so it should be even better next time.
i'm on a quinoa kick too. just making pilafs to go with dinner - i think i'll try the cinnamon recipe for breakfast tomorrow.
i've been thinking it's time to go on a salad kick ;)
thanks for all the good for me but good sounding links
I'm so new with quinoa. Never heard of it before. I wish you could post a photo of the quinoa pasta you mentioned.
Hi--I am here because Mary Jo of the blog Still http://stillblog.net/ said that I might like looking at your paintings. :) I did get your book for Christmas thanks to it being mentioned on Geninne's blog and am looking forward to spending time with it this year.
But since we're talking about quinoa, there's a great cookbook all about Quinoa called Quinoa 365: The Everyday Superfood by Patricia Green & Carolyn Hemming. I'm a long-time 101 Cookbooks follower too.
(I also am a pending follower of yours on Twitter. I'm very new at it and actually can't quite believe I am there! I never saw myself as a Twitter person.)