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Q -‘QUINOA’
A few years ago, when quinoa was first being touted as the amazing
seed that everybody loved cooking and eating, I gave it a try. In fact,
I gave it many tries, in attempt to be healthy and understand what
the fuss was about. There were lots of quinoa salads, quinoa soups,
and quinoa patties — both homemade and eaten out. The final straw
was a disastrous attempt at making quinoa-stuffed zucchini; it was so
bad it went straight into the bin. No matter how I cook it or rinse it
off first, it still tastes like dirt to me — musty, kind of dry, and just
straight-up weird. People have challenged me to add more
ingredients to quinoa, to deep-fry it and use it as a garnish or to
cook it in coconut milk, but I find it a bit silly to try to mask quinoa’s
flavors just to join the bandwagon and say I’m eating quinoa. I can
get quinoa’s magical qualities by eating other grains, seeds, or
proteins, and I happily do so. I hate quinoa. And no matter how many
times I have been tried to bribe with a free sample, I just don’t want
to eat it at all. Sorry, quinoa — you and I were never meant to be.
Now that I’ve broken up with you, we can happily go our separate
ways.
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