Transcontinental Hustle

This dish starts out just like the cous cous with steamed vegetables and sausage, but the transcontinental flair is added when, searching the pantry, you find that you're out of cous cous. Make an emergency substitution of quinoa. Now we're talking Incan supergrain!

By now if you're feeling pretty good, with that quinoa on the stovetop, go ahead and add olives, dried apricots, and prunes into the saute pan, with the sausage and everything else.

Serve with lemon, salt, hot pepper. Suggested pairings to maximize transcontinental impact include croque-monsieur, kimchee, a pint of Fosters, the music of Gogol Bordello.