Quinoa

Brandilynnrose

Hi Everyone! I recently was talking to a friend who told me aobut her love of cooking with quinoa- a food I had actually never even heard of before. Since I started eating healthy and discoved MFP (it's been one month and I'm down 13 pounds, yay!) I am always interested in new, healthy dishes and quinoa intrigued me, because it's such a great source of protein and I do worry about my protein intake since I have cut WAY back on the food sources I usually get my protein from (meats, nuts, peanut butter.) So my question is...does anyone know of any yummy recipes for cooking it or know of any cookbooks or websites with great recipes? Also, any idea what stores carry it? I'm in SoCal, so this weekend I am going to head out and look for it at typical grocery store chains (starting with Trader Joe's). Thanks in advance!