roasted strawberry and quinoa thing — hear me out

Roasting strawberries sounds like a faff but honestly it takes like 12 minutes and they go all jammy and almost savoury? Hard to explain. I chucked them in with a tiny bit of olive oil and balsamic and that was it. Made this for lunch yesterday — quinoa base (cooked and cooled, important), roasted strawberries, thinly sliced cucumber, some rocket, and crumbled feta on top. The contrast is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Cold quinoa, warm-ish berries, salty feta. I wasn't sure it was going to work right up until I ate it and then I had the rest of it standing over the counter because I couldn't be bothered to sit down again. Dressing was just lemon juice, olive oil, a bit of honey, salt. Nothing clever. To be fair I nearly added tahini but I think that would've been too much going on. - 1 cup cooked quinoa (cooled) - ~150g strawberries, halved, roasted at 200°C for 10-12 min with a drizzle of olive oil + balsamic - half a cucumber, sliced thin - good handful of rocket - feta, as much as you want tbh - dressing: lemon, olive oil, honey, salt It's properly summer in a bowl. Feels substantial enough that I'm not rummaging through the kitchen an hour later, which is the actual test.