I do not like quinoa-- there, I said it and I'm glad!

Quinoa? I don't even know what it is but after reading this I don't think I care.

Oh, girls, girls! Blasphemy here! I LOVE, love love quinoa. Not by itself--who eats it that way? But there so many fabulous salads made with quinoa. We were in Bar Harbor a couple weeks ago and stopped in at this wonderful little cafe and she had a quinoa salad that was so good I went back two days in a row just to have it. You just have to know what to do with it. And it is a superfood that is simply wonderful for you.

I like quinoa and kale, but I'm with you on the texture of cooked mushrooms. I think it's the sliminess of them. I do eat them, but I have to have something else to mix them with. I like the taste - I'll happily eat them raw, and I love mushroom soup.

Love quinoa, hate kale and neutral on baked chips.

I'm torn about kale too, but I'll agree that the kale salad with poppyseed dressing from Costco is AWESOME! Really awesome.  

Quinoa is good when it's got stuff in it....veggies, beans, and good flavors. 

Try it in soup. I make a chicken noodle soup that replaces the noodle with quinoa and it's pretty good.

I am not a fan of it in things like salads, but I don't mind it in veggie burger recipes.

I need that recipe!

Any other quinoa lovers, please post yours on this thread too. I've had it once, not opposed to trying it again. Apparently my mistake was eating it alone and I'm positive I did not prepare it correctly. It was super crunchy and odd.

Please note, the instructions for the recipes need to be like I'm in a 7th grade home ec. class. I don't know what this talk is about baked chips, but I'll try anything once.

I should have added this to my post. I made a quinoa salad a few years ago and shared some of it with my next door neighbor. He LOVED it. He asked for the recipe. I told him there was no actual recipe, you just compile the stuff you like, add the quinoa, which I always made the day before to let it sit overnight in the refrigerator, and use whatever dressing appeals to you. He said he wanted exactly what I had done, so I wrote what I could remember putting in the salad and that I had made up a simple lemon juice dressing.

About a week later he came over a little pissy and said he made the salad and served it to friends and it was horrible. He though that I might have "accidentally" left out either a critical step or an ingredient. I don't do that kind of thing, and he knows that about me. I hate games like that. He said it was really bitter to the point they didn't eat it. I asked what dressing he used and he said instead of making the lemon one I gave him, he used some Italian dressing that was in their refrigerator. He went and got it and tasted it to see if it was the dressing that had gone bad. It wasn't.

I asked him if he rinsed the quinoa really well before he cooked it. Deer in headlights look on his face. I know I told him at least twice and even offered to lend him my tight meshed sieve that I bought specifically for quinoa because none of my others were suitable. He forgot that step. Quinoa is coated with a bitter saponin that is supposed to be pretty much rinsed off by the time it gets to the consumer, but I have always rinsed mine really really well just in case. I don't want to ruin all those healthy ingredients because I was too lazy to rinse the seeds. He won't forget next time. And the next time I made a quinoa salad, I doubled it and took him the other half.

So is it possible that those of you who tried it and hated it found it to be bitter, which could mean it wasn't rinsed?

I like it - but I like it cold with black beans, chopped avacado, copped cilantro, some salt and lemon juice. Very yummy.

Oh yeah chopped tomato too!

I only rinse quinoa half of time, I'm just lazy like that. And I've survived with no reactions.