After a weekend chock full of lots of delicious and rich eats, I have to be honest I was pretty psyched for
Meatless Monday. After we dropped my sis and DD, her boyfriend off at the airport I knew I had to figure out something for dinner. The only requirement the boy had was something not too heavy. Now keep in mind not too heavy to him and to most people aren't one in the same. When I say something not too heavy I think of a salad, while he'd happily at that I knew for dinner he'd want something a bit heartier.
We had some broccoli and a bag of dried wild mushrooms that I knew would be the basis for whatever I made. I thought about risotto and when asking for some inspiration on twitter, risotto was also suggested. To me that meant that some form of risotto was in the cards. I then got to thinking risotto with mushrooms and broccoli sounds all well and good but I'd still need to figure some sort of protein and this Monday was definitely a one dish kind of day for me. That's when it came to me, quinoa, that amazing ancient grain that I've made a few times but have yet to come up with a recipe to post. What if I made a quinoa risotto, a quinotto as I soon found it was called after a bit of web research. I did some reading and found that it is really made in much the same way as risotto just subbing in the quinoa. And thus this recipe was born.
