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.

[Catrin]

Yes, I made my own sauce - I cook everything from scratch these days as I no longer eat processed foods of any kind. While that means more kitchen time & I still count calories, but I enjoy those calories more than I have in a long time. It wasn't a marinara sauce though it did have a couple tablespoons of tomato paste. The 'sauce' was mainly grassfed ground beef/pork, veggies and coconut milk. Wonderful!

Yesterday:

B: sausage/veggie frittata, coffee with cream
1-hour hard group training session, vegan protein shake afterwards
L: mixed green/veggie salad with roasted chicken breast, macadamia nuts. EV olive oil/garlic for dressing
30 minute easy bike ride (pedal problem called a short end to it)
D: roasted chicken quarter, 1/2 roasted butternut squash with coconut flakes/coconut oil

[spokewench]

So, I bought some nice organic butternut squashes yesterday that were on sale. My favorite way to cook this and I will do this on Saturday or Sunday is to
cut the squash in half pre-cook the squash so they are almost done; make a marinara sauce with onions, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, a bit of tomato paste, lots of basil, all pureed in the blender. Saute turkey italian sausage (out of casings), onions, diced zucchini, Make a filling of leftover rice/cottage cheese/onions/diced zucchini squash, italian squash. Pile the filling as full and round as I possibly can on top of the squashes, pour some marinara over the top, place a thin slice of mozzarella on top and bake for about 30 minutes or until all bubbly! This is soooo good.

One piece wg toast, butter, coffee
Snack - crackers
1/2 liverwurst sammy with swiss cheese on wg bread
meatloaf, roasted golden beets, potatoes and zucchini, 1 glass red wine

[Crankin]

B: small, whole wheat dinner roll, dipped in olive oil, 3 slices chicken breast, avocado slices, blueberries, coffee
L: veggie burger on a spelt roll with tomato and avocado, an apple
24 mile hilly ride, not so fast, but at the end, my friend's tire blew up (literally), so I sprinted about 3 miles back to her house and went back in my car to get her
S: nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
D: grilled tofu and eggplant in a hoisin sauce
glass of red wine

I woke up feeling awful, and my sinuses are rebelling. Could be the reason for my increased hunger and slight weight gain.

[spokewench]

B: wg toast, butter, coffee
Snack: Banana
L: leftover meatloaf, roasted potatoes, beets and zucchini
D: chicken paprika, rice, broccoli, 1 beer

[Catrin]

B: eggs (with mushrooms and kale), bacon, coffee with cream
1 hour Bosu class
L: roasted chicken breast with salad greens/veggies and garlicky extra virgin olive oil for dressing
D: Put off cooking far too late - so poached a couple of eggs in chicken bone broth with kale, spinach, onions, and mushrooms.
After dinner I had 1 New Holland Poet Stout, 2 squares 85% dark chocolate, and my first fire in the fireplace for the season

[shootingstar]

B: cornflakes wth skim milk, fresh raspberries, concord blue grapes; 2 c.of tea with skim

Snack: mixed berry-white chocolate scone, cup of coffee with milk

Snack: a fresh plum

Dinner: canned clams sauteed with tomato, onion, garlic, red pepper, fresh dill, light eggwhite noodles; side dish of sauteed fresh fennel bulb and cut up apple with fresh thyme and lemon juice; tea with milk

It's Canadian thxgiving this weekend!