primitives discuss Greek quinoa salad

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115729029

Oh my.

An unpretentious recipe from the unpretentious cooking and baking primitives:

Denninmi (5,870 posts)    Sun Jul 28, 2013, 11:31 AM

Greek Quinoa salad

A local Greek place serves this. Really tasty and pretty simple. I don't have a recipe per SE, it is just cooked quinoa with all of the goodies in a Greek salad minus the lettuce, with a Greek dressing and some lemon juice. The use olives, feta, red onion, grape tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, pepperoncini, and hard boiled egg whites. Beets can be added on the side as a mix-in - they probably don't want the entire batch turning purple. They cut everything into about half inch dice, except the black olives and tomatoes, which are left intact.
 
I would say the ratio is about 2 part quinoa to 1 part total of the add-ins.

Yummy, pretty healthy if you watch the amount of cheese.

libodem (12,576 posts)    Sun Jul 28, 2013, 11:54 AM

1. My friend makes this

And I LOVE it. Hers has crumbled feta cheese for that mmmmm tang. Oops you did say feta. I couldn't spell keen-wah if you paid me. I just recently saw it spelled on tv.

Denninmi (5,870 posts)    Sun Jul 28, 2013, 12:55 PM

2. I love quinoa

Good stuff

<<<currently looking up a recipe to use here at home this evening, for sarde arraganate (sarde con origano e pane), to see if the femme likes it.

[franksolich]

<<<currently looking up a recipe to use here at home this evening, for sarde arraganate (sarde con origano e pane), to see if the femme likes it.

Ooops, that has dead fish in it, so no way.

<<<now looking up recipe for cotoletta alla petroniana.

Where's the wife-abandoning sparkling old dude when one needs him?

[BattleHymn]

olives, feta, red onion, grape tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, pepperoncini, and hard boiled egg whites. Beets can be added on the side as a mix-in

Mostly rabbit food.  I could run for about one hour on that, before I'd have to go eat some REAL food.

[franksolich]

<<<wonders if Ballygrl here thinks crostini con condimenti misti would make a better dessert than radicchio e pancetta.

[Big Dog]

Dennis the Menace to Society just described restaurant food on the Cooking and Baking forum.

Isn't that some kind of violation of their Byzantian rulebook?

[franksolich]

Dear sweet old Lu's laying down on the job, and so another primitive had to step in and do her work for her:

pinto (98,945 posts)  Sun Jul 28, 2013, 01:52 PM 

What's for dinner ~ Sunday July 28th

It just got underway, past dinner-time (the evening meal's supper-time, primitives), and so no responses yet.

<<<am planning now on risotto di seppie alla veneziana, if can find a recipe for it.

[Delmar]

This is the first time that I've heard of quinoa so I had to look it up.  Here's something I learned:

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has officially declared that the year 2013 be recognized as "The International Year of the Quinoa." Proposed by the government of Bolivia and receiving strong support from many Central and South American countries, quinoa has now been singled out by the FAO as a food with "high nutritive value," impressive biodiversity, and an important role to play in the achievement of food security worldwide. We realize that quinoa remains unfamiliar to many people, especially in the practical sense of cooking and recipes. But we hope that situation will change, given the remarkable nature of this easily-prepared, nutrient-rich food.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=142&tname=foodspice

Since it has the imprimatur of the UN and is grown in primitive third world hellholes, I can see how the DUmmies would lap it right up.

Quinoa, the perfect food for the workers!  Third world Bolivian quinoa is superior to European Belgian endive which in turn is superior to the traditional cancer and heart disease causing American staples that are popular with unenlightened tea party types.

[franksolich]

This is the first time that I've heard of quinoa so I had to look it up.  Here's something I learned:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=142&tname=foodspice

Since it has the imprimatur of the UN and is grown in primitive third world hellholes, I can see how the DUmmies would lap it right up.

Quinoa, the perfect food for the workers!  Third world Bolivian quinoa is superior to European Belgian endive which in turn is superior to the traditional cancer and heart disease causing American staples that are popular with unenlightened tea party types.

Yeah, dining on exotic third-world foods is the way the primitives show their solidarity with the poor of the world.

I'll never forget the time the hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer waxed lustily about "African" goat-head stew, as trying it out helped her emphathize with the inhabitants of that continent.  This was shortly after the incompetent-in-chief moved into the White House.

I suspect the poor of the world prefer that the primitives show their solidarity with cash and checks.

[Big Dog]

This is the first time that I've heard of quinoa so I had to look it up.  

Two words:

Cattle feed.

[BattleHymn]

I'll never forget the time the hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer waxed lustily about "African" goat-head stew,

You've got to be kidding. 

[I_B_Perky]

Greek Quinoa salad

Substitute bromance for Greek Quinoa salad and he sums it up pretty good for me.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrDWxhilPOs[/youtube]

[franksolich]

You've got to be kidding. 

You know, as a favor to you, I'm looking for that thread.

It seems we covered Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, pretty well; there's lots of material to plough through, to find that one.

While I'm looking, maybe this might amuse:

"Mrs. Alfred Packer explores a chicken's rectal aperture" (March 20, 2011)
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,56870.0

[franksolich]

Here it is:

Mrs. Alfred Packer's goat gotten:
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,50510.0

I must say, after digging through all that, the addled pie-and-jam primitive "grasswire" has nothing to whine about; it appears the DUmpster gave her long-gone pal nothing but the kindest and nicest coverage; in fact, in the beginning I myself was so taken in by the hippywife primitive I even called her "Grandma," out of affection.

All one has to do is search:
search for: hippywife
by user: franksolich

and one's led to reams and reams of complimentary things said about Mrs. Alfred Packer.

[miskie]

I'm not entirely certain what "mmmmm tang" is, but it sounds kinda dirty   

[I_B_Perky]

I'm not entirely certain what "mmmmm tang" is, but it sounds kinda dirty   

Only if it has "poon" in front of tang!!   

[miskie]

Only if it has "poon" in front of tang!!   

Maybe Clinton knows..

[youtube=420,315]A8oUcTvCP-Q[/youtube]

[I_B_Perky]

Maybe Clinton knows..

 

H5 Miskie!!! That made me laugh!!!!

[ColonelCarrots]

I have tried it. It's not bad.

[jtyangel]

Actually that sounds good. The daughter and I love Greek salads and I by the big tub of feta from SAMs club. Quinoa is ok but IMO kind of tasteless and the consistency is meh. Just have the lettuce and have a damn geek salad already. Geez. As for the 'watch the cheese comment' feta cheese is actually a healthier alternative to many other cheeses and the strong flavor means you get more bang for a smaller buck on food ie you can use less with more flavor but even ounce to ounce it's a healthier alternative to Chedder and other cheeses. Greek food is pretty mainstream now especially in certain areas so I hardly find it pretentious. The quinoa though seems useless in this dish if you are watching carbs or grains. It adds calories and carbohydrates when used in place of lettuce. Fine if you are active and can use that healthier carb boost; not ideal if your most grueling activity is clicking a mouse.

[jtyangel]

I have tried it. It's not bad.

It's not per se but it depends on the flavor of the seasoning and stuff it is in so all it does really is add carbs and whole grains to the diet and no real flavor. It's a great alternative to rice or some other carb if one was going to have a simple carb already but it just seems like a calorie adder to put it in place of lettuce in a salad.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The shit that passes for salad in European cuisine mostly contains a lot of ingredients that have not had their taste improved by pickling, and some other stuff that doesn't taste like much of anything, then some runny sour crap made with mostly vinegar splooged across it.  No thanks.