I've been afraid of quinoa for quite awhile.
I tried making couscous a few times and totally failed getting good flavors into it. And I (wrongly) assumed that I would fail at quinoa, too.
But I finally got up the courage when I found a recipe for really fresh, delicious-looking quinoa with lime juice, garlic and cilantro. And then I saw another recipe with black beans.
And this cilantro and black bean quinoa is a happy marriage of all of those southwestern flavors.
