500 Best Quinoa Recipes: 100% Gluten-Free Super-Easy Superfood
Shall we count the ways for using food writer Saulsbury’s hefty tome on quinoa, that “near perfect balance of protein, carbohydrate, and dietary fiber”? She has compiled a fairly impressive roster of dishes that could fill in for any course, from breakfast to dessert. But one-ingredient cookbooks, unless wittily and creatively executed, often suffer from “muchness.” By the time readers reach midpoint, that mainstay ingredient is ready to be shuffled aside. Although lighter versions of familiar proteins are used, the feeling lingers that this is more than a gluten-free, vegan-haven book. Metrics rule—directions are couched in grams and milliliters. Finally, some recipes are simply better than others (e.g., apple custard pie, granola), but unless experienced cooks test the dishes, an average kitchen wiz won’t know. An adequate resource for lovers of the grain. --Barbara Jacobs