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  • Quinoa is a grain from South America, it gets all fluffy and strange when you boil it.

    Archive 2008-11-01 zombietron 2008

  • Quinoa is a grain from South America, it gets all fluffy and strange when you boil it.

    Tash Bites zombietron 2008

  • Quinoa is the current grain of choice around our house.

    Stoopid Mummy 2007

  • Quinoa is used as a grain, although botanically, it is closer to a vegetable than to a grain.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Nupur 2007

  • I was at a friends the other night and her husband is coeliac and she put me onto this tiny and wonderful grain called Quinoa pro ‘kinwa’ which we ate there- YUM.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 19 March 2010

  • Quinoa, which is native to South America and was a main part of the Inca diet, is known as the "mother of all grains" because it contains amino acids that make it a "complete protein."

    Craig Daily Press stories 2009

  • This inspired book offers delicious organic recipes for entire meals from appetizers such as Quinoa Croquettes with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce and dishes like Pan-Fried Sake Shrimp with Polenta and Mushrooms in Chipotle Sauce to scrumptious desserts including Mini Strawberry Rhubarb Crumbles.

    TreeHugger 2010

  • Taste-goers will be treated to an assortment of wild foods, such as Quinoa Lambsquarter Stuffing, Cattail on the Cob and Nettle Soup.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • All the local families have a chunk of land in each of the 6 regionalities on the island, and they use this to farm grains such as Quinoa as well as sheep and llama.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • I decided this spring to pull up all the paving stones in my garden and make some permanant raised beds out of them so we can try growing some normal vegetables like tomatoes, sweet corn, carrots, cauliflower and onions but we wanted to try growing some rare Incan vegetables as they pythochemicals in them that have anti cancer properties, plants like Amaranthus that are packed with vitamins A, B12 B6 when eaten raw like purple sprouting broccoli, along with red white Quinoa which is a great source of protein and exploding hedgehogs which are great in salads, as you can see at the end of the film it all grew more than I thought which was awesome and we are still reaping the benefits of some of it like the mass of tomatoes which have really tasted like tomatoes and the three months of mixed leaf salad, Roquette and baby red and yellow chard that costs so much at the supermarkets as well as all the herbs that I use all the thyme.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

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