The CookingBites recipe challenge: quinoa

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Morning Glory said:
To make it taste of anything much you need to cook it in stock really. Also, I wonder how long you cooked it for. It shouldn't turn mushy unless that is what you wanted to achieve. No pics?
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I just used water for this first cook. I wouldn't exactly call it mushy -- and I followed all the directions to the letter. No pics -- it was plain white quinoa.

This first cook was really just about seeing what I had to work with, having never cooked, or even eaten quinoa before.

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First ken-o-a recipe now uploaded. ER, quinoa!

As a note, both the red and black quinoa arrived last evening, but this one is just with the white variant. It looks darker because of the broth I cooked it with.

Seafood Salad with Soft Shell Crab, Shrimp, Quinoa and Fennel

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Your link to the recipe is incorrect. It links to the recipe group that contains your recipe and not the recipe itself.
 
FYI--quinoa is pronounced: keen-wah.
caseydog said:
I get my second vaccine dose this afternoon. I plan to go the store on the way home. I'll buy some quinoa. I've been reading and watching YouTube videos on how to properly cook it. I'll give it a try. I will either like it, or not.

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Did you get sick at all from your 2nd dose? I got a bit loopy from it, sore and mental fog, no appetite.
 
TastyReuben said:
I've heard Julia Child pronounce it that way.
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Julia also pronounces oregano the English way, rather than American.

We've been watching reruns of old Emeril shows on the DABL channel. I can't believe how many words he mispronounces. Today, he dumped olive oil in water to boil pasta. He also was a forerunner to Bobby Flay's, "well browned," when it's actually burnt/black.
 
medtran49 said:
My daughter called me 1 day to ask if I had ever used qui-no-ah. I was like "what?" She pronounced it again, and said it's a grain, then a light bulb went off. They didn't like it very much.
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When I first found recipes with quinoa in them, I'd seen them online. I'd never heard the word pronounced.

I get to work, one day and at lunch, a couple tablemates were talking about this weird grain named "keen-wha". I was - WHAT is THAT??

About fifteen minutes later, I finally recognized what they ware talking about - quinoa. Keen-wha would be the proper native pronunciation from it's South/Central American heritage, and is also the proper pronunciation elsewhere. I do note that even though I pronounce the word properly nowadays, in order to spell it properly, I mentally call it "kin-o-a", remembering it starts with a "q". Sort of how in order to spell the scientific name of purple coneflower, I mentally call it "E-China-Sea" when I do always verbally pronounce that one "Eh-kin-a-shia".
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I'm going to take a note from Murphy's playbook when the recipes are posted and not hit any "like" buttons on them, but I will still be checking in on this thread regularly. Happy quinoa cooking, everyone!
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Just wanted to make sure everyone knows, no matter how much I love your recipes, no "like" buttons, LOL.
 
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