There have been a lot of quinoa recipes floating around lately. I guess it’s not such a secret anymore and everyone knows about this little gem of a gluten-free superfood. It’s perfect as a salad as Kelly of The Spunky Coconut is showing here, and it’s also great as a substitute for rice and pasta dishes. If you haven’t tried it — make sure you do, it will be one of your new favorites.– – –
“Last weekend we had some crazy weather, though not uncommon for this area. Saturday was the start of the farmers market, and the warmest day we’ve had yet this year. It was sunny, not windy for a change, and 70 degrees. Just lovely. Which meant that everyone was at the Boulder farmers market. It was so unbelievably crowded that we decided to go down the street to the new Whole Foods for lunch instead. The new Whole Foods in Boulder has probably the biggest prepared foods section of any Whole Foods in the country. The prepared foods area alone is the size of a grocery store. Seriously. You have to walk around it for ten minutes just to decide what to get.
Then on Sunday, in classic Front Range fashion, it poured rain and then it snowed. Haha! My kids were literally running through the sprinkler in our yard on Saturday afternoon, and in rain coats and ski jackets on Sunday. Cracks me up…”
