Reason #4 Not To Read My Blog: Quinoa

Yet, another reason...

4.    I’m not too fond of quinoa

Pronounced “KEEN-wah.”  You know, that South American grain that’s all the rage with the hip and healthy.  I mean, it’s okay.  I’ve eaten it.  I even cooked it once.  Then the bag sat in the cabinet for a year until we got pantry moths.  I was sad to throw away the cumin.  I was not sad to throw away the quinoa. 

If I had to pick an alternative grain (meaning, not rice, not cous cous, not wheat, oats, barley, cornmeal, or hominy), and anyone who’s anyone is picking an alternative grain, it just might be farro.  Maybe.  But you know what’s better than farro and quinoa? 

Cheesecake.

Comments

[Dad]

Finally! We agree on something! Cheesecake is a great alternative grain! How about making me one?

Hungry and deprived in Worcester

[Tammy]

I would, Dad, but I'm fresh out of cheese.

Okay, I've received several (2) scathing e-mails regarding my position on quinoa. Can't we all just get along?

(not you, Susanna, yours was tactful and eloquent)

[Ed Harrison]

My mother-in-law eats "quinoa" due to her fake wheat allergy. Ask her to say "quinoa" someday -- she says it with an extremely dramatic flourish: "kee-NWAAA!" as if it were some sort of karate yelp. Thus, I hate quinoa.

[Tea]

Ha! That is FUNNY.