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Quinoa

Recipe: High Fiber Triple Grain Pilaf

by Darlene on February 16, 2008

Ready for a good fiber blast?! Try this high fiber triple grain pilaf instead of your usual rice dish. Adding more fiber into your diet will not only keep your digestion moving along, but eating more natural foods and less processed ones will give you more nutrients in your diet. Most [...]

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Recipe: Quinoa Salad

by Darlene on February 2, 2008

February I will be featuring recipes using different types of grains. I find that many people don’t know how to cook grains or what to do with them. So I hope you try something different and add some grain into your diet. NOTE: none of my recipes have wheat in them [...]

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Recipe: Kale Soup with Quinoa

by Darlene on September 22, 2007

Quinoa originated in the Andean region of South America, where it has been an important food for 6,000 years. The Incas, who held the crop to be sacred, referred to quinoa as “chisaya mama” or “mother of all grains”, and it was the Inca emperor who would traditionally sow the first seeds of the season [...]

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