Miracle Grain

This stuff is awesome.

I'm going to make cheese-and sun dried tomato-filled fried quinoa patties with butter-herb sauce, Curry Spinach and Quinoa, and work on a quinoa-and-breadcrumb stuffing that can be baked in a casserole and served for Thanksgiving.

Maybe some No-bake Quinoa haystack cookies, with coconut and melted butterscotch chips and cornflakes, or with puffed rice cereal for Passover. Oh.

Is Quinoa Kosha for Pesach?!?!?!?!?

YES!

Oh, yeah.

Bacon Salt is kosher. Watch out, soups.

Recipes for a Kosher Chick and Veggie Guy

I've been living more-or-less vegetarian for a while. Milchig and pareve, anyway. I decided a while ago to skip non-kosher meat from now on, knowing well that that pretty much rules out meat on most occasions, it being some expensive stuff to get in the wilds of Boise, idaho. Now I'm moving to California, where there are . . . more Jews than Idaho, I've been led to understand. There are even a few kosher options (apart from Hebrew nationals!) at Trader Joe's. It's still spendy, though.

And I'm moving in with a gorgeous vegetarian, so nix the idea of buying any of this kosher meat, because what's the fun of cooking for yourself? I've been looking up veggie recipes and writing down family classics that could be easily altered. But now, glory hallelujah: www.vegeusa.com.

First found out about this at Mai Thai, where we ate Smoked Duck that had never seen a feather, and chicken curry that had never been an contentious jerkface of a semidomesticated jungle pheasant. I'm looking into how much this stuff costs- because then, all of a sudden, so many more options open up.

Chicken with Weeds
Turkey on Toast
Shepherds' Pie
Fish Pie
Meatballs and Gravy
Pot Roast
Cholent
Maybe some sort of Chicken-alfredo Flammekuche

Hmmmmmmm.