EVOO Anyone???
I just wanted to try some recipes with quinoa, a protein-rich food that seems to be becoming quite popular. But I didn’t have any recipes for it. So I started searching online. And then I ran into “EVOO.” It appeared as an ingredient in more than one recipe. Never before had I heard of such a thing until then. And then, in a simple search for recipes using quinoa, almost every single recipe called for EVOO. “What in the world is EVOO?!?” I thought as I scanned through the recipes. “Oh well, it’s probably some kind of exotic seasoning that you have to get at the health-food store and I don’t want to spend big bucks on it anyway, so I’ll just omit it… After all, one little ingredient can’t make that much difference in a recipe, can it?” Finally, after coming across probably five or six recipes that called for EVOO, I committed the deed that confirmed my absolute ignorance to the existence of the ingredient....