Tag: Side dish

Cooked quinoa

How to cook quinoaGet the perfect flavor and texture from your quinoa, every time

Quinoa is a super food! It is a complete protein with an abundance of Lysine. It’s also packed with essential minerals such as manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorous. Viviane Bauquet Farre shares her recipe for how to cook quinoa the perfect way with step-by-step photos and instructions. The recipe also shows you how to rinse the bitter and slightly toxic saponin that naturally coats the seeds before cooking it.

Fresh peas with basil and mint

Fresh peas with basil and mint

One of my favorite childhood activities was to shell fresh peas, sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table. The bigger the pile, the happier I was because I’d devised a little reward system: for every ten pea pods I’d shell, I’d eat the content of the next one!