Week Five - New Vegetable

I've run out of vegetable options at the grocery store in the winter.  I was kind of tired of cauliflower, broccoli, kale, cabbage, and others.  So I decided to give spaghetti squash a try.  It was pretty great to find out that how people described the inside of a spaghetti squash to me was exactly how it really was on the inside.

Take a look-it really kind of looks like spaghetti!

I kind of experimented and didn't really go off a recipe.  (I didn't go off a recipe because so many of the recipes called for butter and I'm not a fan of cooking with butter.  I'd rather not clog my arteries if possible.)  And that's kind of why it ended up being just mediocre.  I added olive oil, salt, pepper, parmesan cheese, soy sauce.  All sorts or random things. Ha.  So, it was just okay, maybe even bad. Ha.

And then I pan-fried salmon with garlic black bean sauce, paprika, cumin, scallions, and ginger.  It also just tasted okay.  And I burned the scallions and gingers a bit too.

I tried again a few days later and I spread the black bean sauce on the salmon and put the ginger, scallions on top with the paprika and cumin, and baked it for about 10 minutes.  It tasted so so much better.  I might even say it was great :)  No pictures though. :(