What did you eat today?

[Owlie]

Today:

B: bacon, eggs scrambled with mushrooms and spinach, coffee
L: chicken salad made with roasted chicken thigh, onion, tomato, boiled egg, spinach, walnut oil
2 hour mountain bike ride
D: spaghetti squash bolgonese made with grass-fed ground beef. It was great! I've not had spaghetti squash before and the sauce was quite good - that was also a first for me. I will make this again and I've enough left over for a couple of meals. 1 beer with 2 squares 88% dark chocolate.

Did you make your own sauce?
I like spaghetti squash, don't get me wrong, but I don't like it as a pasta substitute. I like treating it like other squash (there's a Moroccan-spiced version out there that I'd love to try) as a side (or as part of a curry or something), but to me the squash-marinara combo doesn't work well. The squash is too sweet and, well, squash-flavored. Or at least, the one I got was. That said, spaghetti squash is really good as part of a Thai-style curry, because the sweetness complements the flavors, and it acts like noodles. I used chicken and a bunch of random veggies I found in the fridge with it.

I'm quite excited for squash-and-apple season. I found a bunch of new recipes for squash and pumpkins (soup I might actually like! muffins!), and there are about six pounds of Honeycrisp apples in my fridge. (Yes, I'll eat them all.) I'll be talking out of the other side of my face in January when there's no prospect for fruit other than apples from cold storage for a while, but I'll be excited while I can.