Fellas have you ever thought, is it possible to make quinoa more manly?
I asked a mate at work who I respect a lot and he said no. Well, that is, he said no after I thought I had made a decent attempt to make quinoa more manly.
I should say up front I do like quinoa. It has an interesting taste and I like cooking it and seeing the bright ring form that shines nicely when I’m focusing my lens on it. I also like it’s taste when it’s mixed with lemon juice and cooked in beef or chicken stock.
The other thing I like about quinoa is the toilet brush effect it has on my bowels. Every morning after a bowl of quinoa I feel cleaned out. I feel like it helps my irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
So what did I do to try to make a man of my quinoa? I added some brown onion gravy. Doesn’t it look amazing? NOT!!!
I was watching My Kitchen Rules while blogging and coincidentally the entrée from the blonde butchers was being referred to by a lot of tweeps as a turd on a plate. A tweep from Melbourne took a similar view on my meal and called it dog vomit.
“@garydlum: @mykitchenrules http://t.co/kcOSLiyP51 pic.twitter.com/Hgc0U1eBYl” Yummy dog vomit!!
— Adam Halcyon (@halcyon2001) March 2, 2015
Fair enough, even I reckon it looks awful. It tasted good though.
It also reminded me of the Monty Python Cocktail Bar sketch.
Check out some of my quinoa handy work here
I don’t think it looks that bad! But I agree serving the brown stuff in a bowl might look nicer! I would eat it either way!
Thanks. Yep, brown is just…well…brown. It tasted good 🙂
I’ve never thought of quinoa being manly or not, lols! But even though tasty, brown gloop will always look like brown gloop.
It’s so true Sara. I should have put the quinoa and gravy in a small bowl and put it in the middle with the salmon on one side.
My review, in MKR style: I love all the elements on this plate, but the presentation is questionable 😀
I did think of serving the gravy quinoa in a bowl with the salmon and avocado around it. Then my desire to minimise washing up took over lol
Ah the joys of trying to photography brown food!
Yep, it’s difficult Caroline, hence all the avocado and chives 😀
“Beauty” is on the tongue of the beholder. 🙂
Haha, I love it. “Beauty is on the tongue of the beholder,” says Mouse 😀