Breakfast quinoa

Who decided that oats were the grain we were meant to eat at breakfast? Well it turns out, upon a quick wikipedia search, that porridge is made from almost every type of food imagineable. You can have potato porridge, congee (made from rice), grits, gofio, and of course "pease porridge" from the Mother Goose nursery rhyme which is made of peas. 

I love a good, hearty, warming, oatmeal breakfast with milk, maple syrup and berries. Since going gluten-free I've found out that though oats do not contain gluten most oats can not be considered gluten-free because there is so much cross contamination with wheat. So oatmeal is off the proverbial and literal table for me. That was until Nick B's sister in law Susan gave me the Gluten-Free Bible for Christmas! (She also gave me Thomas Keller's Ad hoc at home Yay! I'll be converting those recipies to gluten-free soon.)

The Gluten-Free Bible had an interesting recipe for breakfast quinoa which is basically cinnamon oatmeal that replaces the oats with quinoa. I love quinoa. It is a seed and not a grain so its a really good source of protein. The recipe is just water, quinoa, brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon and raisins. Add milk and berries at the end and voila! Hearty, wholesome, protein packed breakfast. Thankfully my sister sent me some of her homebrew maple syrup straight from Canada for Christmas. She always packs it in Canadian Rye Whiskey bottles. I know it is a real sacrifice that they have to drink all that whiskey just to have something to bottle their syrup in.