Spaghetti...Squash!

So what is this thing called spaghetti squash?  I hear it tastes like cookies and it can replace the pasta in your spaghetti...sounds way too good to be true.  I just had to find out for my self!  Last night, my husband and I (ok mainly him) made some meat spaghetti sauce and cooked up this oh so popular spaghetti squash. Check it out!

meat sauce (after so many helpings haha)

Meat sauce:

1 lb organic, grass-fed ground beef
1 large organic onion
1 large organic green pepper
2-3 small organic carrots
1 32oz bottle of organic spaghetti sauce
olive oil

Place a tablespoon of olive oil into a pan.  Add the chopped onions and sautee.  Add the ground beef.  Once the ground beef is brown, add the green pepper, carrots and the spaghetti sauce.  Simmer for about 30 min or however long the squash takes to cook.

spaghetti squash

Squash:

Cut squash in half and remove the seeds.  Then place on a baking tray with the cut sides facing down.  Bake for 30 minutes.  Now just use a fork to remove the squash from its skin, it comes off like noodles. Voila!









While the squash didn't taste like cookies (darn it!), it was pretty good!  It has the consistency of the thin rice noodles, also called Singaporean noodles, and it was good.  Definitely good enough to replace the pasta!  So good and sooo healthy!

coconutty!

young coconut from Wholefoods

I LOVE coconut juice!  It has this yummy toasty flavor and just quenches your thirst.  Here is a picture of a young coconut pruned by my husband.  He used the coconut meat for his smoothie.  Coconuts are all the rage nowadays..coconut juice, flour, oil, everything coconutty!  I'll have to post the many things we use with coconut some other time.  Just enjoy the not-so-sexy picture of this young coconut for now! :)

Remy eats (& cooks) Christmas eve dish...

My husband has this favorite dish, which we still haven't figured the actual name for!  You see, his grandfather from his dad's side, Grandfather Smith, was a sea captain.  While at sea in the Philippine islands, he encountered this tasty dish.  Grandfather Smith loved it so much that he had one of cooks from the ship learn the dish to recreate it for him.  So this recipe has been passed on to my father-in-law and onto my husband.  So for Christmas eve, we decided to make the dish and start a Christmas eve dinner tradition. It is easy to make, healthy and uberly delicious!

What you will need:

3 lbs of beef or pork ribs
1 large organic green pepper
1 large organic yellow onion
1 15oz can of organic diced tomatoes
1 15oz can of organic tomato sauce
1 15oz can of pineapple chunks in its juice (no syrup)
olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

First, brown the sides of the meat in about a tablespoon of olive oil in a large dutch oven.  Then remove the meat and put aside.  Saute the onion and green pepper in the same dutch oven  with the oil and meat drippings.  Then place the meat back, add the diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and pineapple chunks.  Place the dutch oven in the oven for about 2.5 hours at 325 F.  (FYI, this dish will work well in a slow cooker too!)  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Voila! ENJOY it with white rice or by itself!  Here's a picture of it when we removed it from the oven. Yummy in my tummy!!!