Just got some quinoa and like it alot. Can already see boiling this stuff for 15mins while stirring endlessly can get old fast.
Any suggestions on how to cook?
Any good recipes?`
Anything on quinoa?
Craig?

Quinoa, coconut milk + cinamon is an awesome porridge for breakfast. I just boil up a pack of the stuff on sunday, seems to keep well for 3 days worth of breakfasts.

^^ yep

Get a yeast free (and msg free) stock cube (vegetable bouillon) and add it whilst cooking. Makes a nice change.

tbh you can use it just like you would rice etc.

You just boil the water add the quinoa and simmer till it grows tails.

I eat it with a berry mix (buy the frozen berries if your on a budjet) and chopped almonds.

As health says just cook and serve it the same way as rice... commercially available stuff is already prewashed so doesn't require endless hours of pre-soaking, or a sore shoulder stiring while cooking.

I still haven't tried it with coconut milk... need to try that, sounds delicious!

I think it tastes better after an overnight soaking. Also, once the water have boiled off (or very nearly) I think it also tastes better when left covered for 5-10mins.

The quinoa porridge idea sounds divine....soon soon.

RoB wrote:Quinoa, coconut milk + cinamon is an awesome porridge for breakfast. I just boil up a pack of the stuff on sunday, seems to keep well for 3 days worth of breakfasts.

Just did this for the first time (without the cinamon as that crashes my blood sugar and gives me headaches) - lovely! Will alternate with regular oats for breckie from now on

Dtlv74 wrote:

RoB wrote:Quinoa, coconut milk + cinamon is an awesome porridge for breakfast. I just boil up a pack of the stuff on sunday, seems to keep well for 3 days worth of breakfasts.

Just did this for the first time (without the cinamon as that crashes my blood sugar and gives me headaches) - lovely! Will alternate with regular oats for breckie from now on

does it? [cinnomon] how much do you take for that effect? and how many carbs?

kp1512 wrote:

Dtlv74 wrote:

RoB wrote:Quinoa, coconut milk + cinamon is an awesome porridge for breakfast. I just boil up a pack of the stuff on sunday, seems to keep well for 3 days worth of breakfasts.

Just did this for the first time (without the cinamon as that crashes my blood sugar and gives me headaches) - lovely! Will alternate with regular oats for breckie from now on

does it? [cinnomon] how much do you take for that effect? and how many carbs?

Well assuming its that. Have always suffered migraines - bad enough at times to have to seek medical help and prescribed meds to deal with them. As part of the treatment i did what most people do and keep a diary of things to try to figure out the patterns, and the only four things that seemed to be consistently correlated with them; thunder storms, under eating for a few days (low blood sugar), high amounts of caffiene and cinamon in foods.

Didn't want it to be cinamon, as i like the taste, so to prove everyone that it was just a coincidence i ate a spoonful of cinamon - and within an hour was beginning the aura of a full on migraine. Since then have been careful to avoid it but a couple of times have had it in something without realising at the time and only figured out it was in it because of the migraine that followed.

Anyway after years of this i had a discussion with my GP about migraines after a cluster attack of them and trying some new meds. We talked about my triggers and she said to me that she had read papers where cinamon lowers blood sugar, but that in very rare cases some people are too sensitive to it and get too much of a blood sugar crash. She speculated i was one of these freaky people.

I have always assumed that her idea was right as i get headaches off it even if i cant taste it... could be some other active ingredient in cinamon though, have never taken any and done a blood glucose test to confirm.