My latest "HFO"

I made my old chicken and rice casserole dish using quinoa and it was great!  I just cooked 2 cups of quinoa and used it like I would rice.

I want to try Quinoa, but I have no idea how to cook it. Patiently waiting on Nik to school me

My HFO is tomatoes. I can't get enough of them. After I get my protein in you can bet that my veg/fruit of choice is a red juicy vine ripe tomato. I am paying about $3 a pound for hothouse ones this time of year, but they are well worth it to me. They have lots of anti-oxidants and full of vitamins. They also have Lycopene, which is a proven cancer fighter.

very similar to rice. you can use water or broth. broth obviously imparts more flavor. 1 part quinoa, 2 parts liquid for 15 minutes or until the center becomes clear and the outside rind turns opaque.

 I also really like quinoa.  I usually use it instead of rice or noodles when we have what we call "five hour stew".  This is just stew meat (I cut it up smaller than how it comes), 2 cans of cream of mushroom, 2 cans of cream of celery and 2 cans of cream of chicken, 1 packet of onion soup mix and 2 cans of water... put in the oven at like 300 for 5 hours in a dutch oven.  Not a crock pot.. would be too runny.  The kids eat it over egg noodles, I eat mine with quinoa.  Yummy!  I also use the 98% fat free soups and they all love it still.

I think its former fat dudes has a recipe for what he calls quotemeal.. quinoa and oatmeal mixed together.. very good.. but after I ate it a couple days in a row I decided the gas factor wasn't worth it.

It's funny you bring up quinoa. It was one of the mystery ingredients last night on Chopped (food network show) and I told my husband I wanted to try it. Now after reading all these posts I'm definitely gonna look for it at the supermarket.

I used quinoa recently when friends were over. Chili over quinoa and they went nuts for it!