Yea!!! The Wal-Mart in Chickasha has started carrying quinoa grain. It's on the same aisle as the rice. Now if Wal-Mart would only start carrying quinoa flour, I'd be in "Quinoa Heaven." I had been ordering it through Amazon, but it's nice to see that this super food has made it into the hinterlands and you know it's arrived, if you find it on an aisle at Wal-Mart!
If you haven't cooked with quinoa, you need to. It's a great way to introduce a nutritious food into your diet. According to Claire Burnett and Laurie Scanlin, featured in Quinoa 365 by sisters Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming, quinoa was once regarded more valuable than gold by the indigenous peoples of the Andean Mountain regions of Peru and Bolivia. Quinoa was so valuable to the people that when the Spanish came in the 1500s, they set out to destroy all the fields of quinoa in order to control the culture. (Sound familiar re: the United States and the Native Americans?) But this isn't a political lament.
Quinoa is a complete protein and gluten-free. Quinoa is rich in vitamins E, B2 and B6, folic acid, potassium, calcium, biotin, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese and chloride. It's a food worth getting to know well.
Below is a link to my recipe for Quinoa Medley posted on Videojug.com.
Quinoa Medley
Jump start 2011 with a new food. Try it, you'll like it!
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