{"id":590,"date":"2009-10-30T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-10-18T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T13:03:33","slug":"confetti-quinoa-friday-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/confetti-quinoa-friday-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Confetti Quinoa &#8211; Friday Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/category\/nutrition\/recipes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-168\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"fridayfood2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/fridayfood2.jpg\" alt=\"fridayfood2.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>Quinoa (keen-wa) is an awesome grain. It&#8217;s a whole grain, Good for You, and cooks in only 20 minutes (rather than the 1 hour plus of most other whole grains.) My children call it fish eye-balls because it is a small round grain that forms a little spiral when it cooks. For a quick, Good for You, wholegrain dish that tastes delish try:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lisa&#8217;s Good for You-Naturally!\u2122 Confetti Quinoa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I cook this in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000I5UEQM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=meandmyhoumin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000I5UEQM\" target=\"_blank\">Miracle brand electric stainless steel rice cooker<\/a>. Other ways of cooking it may require different proportion of water. Most stovetop recipes say twice as much water as quinoa.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 c. quinoa, organic<\/li>\n<li>5 1\/2 c. pure water<\/li>\n<li>medium chopped onion (organic)<\/li>\n<li>2-3 stalks celery, chopped (organic)<\/li>\n<li>a big squirt of Bragg&#8217;s Liquid Aminos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Takes approx. 15-20 min to cook. (only 2 minutes if you cook in a pressure cooker)<\/p>\n<p>Steam 16 oz. frozen organic mixed vegetables (or a nice fresh mix, if you&#8217;re doing better than me today.) I use Cascadian Farms which has diced carrots, peas, and corn. (If you&#8217;re doing better than me today, you could also saute your onion and celery in a bit of extra virgin olive oil before adding to the quinoa.)<\/p>\n<p>When both are finished, mix together and serve with a big leafy green salad. The 4 cups of dry grain makes more than enough for our family of 8. As our boys get older, we&#8217;re having to prepare bigger batches of everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quinoa (keen-wa) is an awesome grain. It&#8217;s a whole grain, Good for You, and cooks in only 20 minutes (rather than the 1 hour plus of most other whole grains.) My children call it fish eye-balls because it is a small round grain that forms a little spiral when it \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/confetti-quinoa-friday-food\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[58,56,40,57,59,41],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-pressure-cooker","tag-quinoa","tag-recipe","tag-rice-cooker","tag-steamer","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}