Failed Tabbouleh, Successful Quinoa Salad

So I was craving some tabbouleh today and unfortunately PCC is all the way in Issaquah. I really didn't want to pack up the dragonborn and drive for a half hour just to get some delicious tabbouleh, SO I decided to make my own.

Well come to find out I don't have any fresh parsley, oh well it should be good without it, right? I still had the tomatoes and instead or Bulgar wheat i used quinoa. I mean who doesn't love quinoa.  I threw in some yellow, red and orange sweet pepper cause they needed to get used, and also some zucchini i had laying around the house. Sprinkle on some S&P, some lemon juice, and some cajun season. We like cajun season at our house. It goes good on EVERYTHING! And you get this deliciousness

So instead of tabbouleh I made delicious quinoa salad. not quite what i wanted but good enough for me. =]

here is an ingredients list if you want to try it. Its really simple. Now mind you, I had some left over quinoa from a previous dinner so this only took me five minutes to make. 

1 cup quinoa

1.5 cup water

1 mini sweet pepper in red, yellow and orange. (you can use and color you like i just had these handy)

Half of a medium sized zucchini sliced 

6 grape tomatoes (you can use 1 - 2 regular tomatoes instead)

Salt

Black Pepper

Cajun Seasoning

Lemon Juice (i used bottled but you can used fresh also)

Bring 1.5 cups of water to a boil and add your quinoa. Cover and bring down to med high heat and let all of the water evaporate then fluff quinoa with a fork. I tend to rinse my quinoa after but you don't have to. Put in a bowl and set aside.

Roughly chop your peppers tomatoes and zucchini. Add chopped veggies to quinoa and toss. season to taste. 

there ya go. pretty simple right! =]

I might add some chicken to it and make a yummy snack to take to work with me. 

Now i must check my chicken stock. Don't worry that's another post to come! 

I am the Holy Paleo Mother of the dragonborn!

I have no idea how to start this post off. Should i start it by introducing myself or should i just jump in feet first and post something? 

or how about we start with this

Yep, its true! 

I am a Full time working mom of one who goes to school and eats like the cool beast ever! A Mothereffing DINOSAUR! and speaking of dinosaurs they are related to dragons right? Or are dragons related to dinosaurs? either way if you are the dragonborn you have to eat like a dinosaur right? RIGHT! Whats that you have never heard of a dragonborn? well this my friends is a dragonborn...

Or Bubbahkin as we call it. A flesh eating beast disguised as a cute 2 yr old.  How can a 2 yr old be a flesh eating beast? Easy, she eats like a dinosaur. ok are you confused yet? let me clarify, No my dragonborn doesnt hunt and scrape around for food, unless she finds something on the floor. Our family is Paleo. Whats Paleo here let me give you the lo-down. 

PALEO: Eating a diet that consists of lean meats, seafood, plants (yes fruits and veggies) and nuts. thats it. well, and water of course. yes that is really it. 

I will add a few sites to the end if you want to know more about the paleo lifestyle. all of these website have delicious recipes by the way. 

Now the reason I started this blog was to show people what the first month of paleo is like. Our family started our paleo life switch at the beginning of May and I am loving it, I think the dragonborn loves it (she hasnt said otherwise), DH is still pretty indifferent though. Hopefully we can get him to love it over time. I plan on posting nifty finds and delicious things that DH and i have made for the Fambam. I hope to help all new comers to the paleo diet, lord knows it can be confusing and kind of expensive at first. 

Neato Paleo websites to answer you questions (dont forget to look at the recipes)

http://nomnompaleo.com/paleo101

http://www.thepaleomom.com/start-here

mind you these are only a few of a bunch of great website with amazing information.