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Last night I had zero inspiration for dinner, I hate it when that happens, my hubby called and kindly informed me what was circling his brain in reference to din-din. He was craving quinoa with a pilaf twist to it and we had all of the ingredients right there at my disposal, so no problem, off to the chopping block I went. Now making quinoa is beautifully easy, heat water to boil, put quinoa in, cover and simmer for twelve minutes, fluff, shut off the heat and let stand for five minutes, all this easiness and plus it is a grain that is a complete protein, what can be better than that? The pilaf part was more labor intensive, chopping into small dice; carrots, celery, red pepper, yellow pepper, orange pepper, two vidalia onions and six cloves of garlic, crushed and minced. Once everything was diced, the easy part was sautéing it until everything was nicely caramelized and incorporating the vegetables into the quinoa. This was a hit last night, but the two men in my life were saying that it lacked a certain carnivorous quality.
Tonight the lack of meat was rectified with sausage. Sausage, like bacon, makes everything tastes better, at least in my book. I must say that leftovers are such a wonderful thing, even if you have to tweak it a little bit, the tweaking never takes too long and everyone is happy once again, fed and satiated.
laurieanichols 
I have never heard of Quinoa. I’ve googled it and it is not well known in the UK but is apparently an up and coming grain with a “starry future”.
So you are ahead of us here!
I’m surprised that you haven’t been barraged with all of the healthy aspects of quinoa like we are in the U.S. Actualy I’m doubly surprised because I know hat quinoa is everywhere on Parisian menu’s so being right across the Channel I just assumed (oops) that you would be dining on quinoa like us. Actually all of this over exposure of quinoa is making the quinoa that was a staple of, I think that it is Chilean mountain peasants, way too expensive for them to eat now. Quinoa is a picker grower and only likes certain climes. It is very good, more subtle than coucous.
I shall keep a look out in the shops!
I hope you find it, it’s a nice change from the usual rice and such.