It's not all meat and cheese here in the Piepan household, as much as we'd like it to be. When hot weather hits and we want something cool and refreshing, a giant steak or a pot of stew isn't gonna cut it. We've been kind of messing around with quinoa lately, testing its malleability as an ingredient. We've got a quinoa chili that we like to make from time to time, and this quinoa salad was our first effort to bring quinoa into the realm of cool dishes good for spring and summer weather. Then we put some meat and cheese on a plate and ate it with the quinoa salad. Nobody's perfect.
