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Quinoa Comfort Salad – perfect healthy pot-luck dish

May 6, 2010 | Busy Life and Travel Tips, Dairy Free, Energy Food, Gluten Free, Grains and Beans, Nutrient Dense, Recipes, Salads, Vegan, Vegetarian

Here is one of my all time favorite, totally versatile quinoa recipes I created this recipe when my fridge had little bits of veggie leftovers from the week and I wanted to make an easy and healthy pot-luck dish. Quinoa Comfort Salad I rarely cook with things from a...

Raw Quinoa Salad – make Quinoa even more nutritious!

Apr 29, 2010 | Grains and Beans, Nutrient Dense, Raw Food, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetarian

Since getting back from Peru I am on a Quinoa kick! Quinoa is already a super nutritious grain. To learn more about how Quinoa grows and some of it’s health benefits click here. This recipe calls for sprouted quinoa which makes it a super-duper nutritious grain!...

Quinoa – It grows taller than me! Video from Peru!

Apr 22, 2010 | Dairy Free, Energy Food, Gluten Free, Grains and Beans, Nutrient Dense

I had no idea that Quinoa grew so tall! In this video I am in a most incredible ancient agricultural center called Moray in Peru. You have got to see it to believe it! It has about 25 levels for growing, each creates a different micro-climate, so that different crops...