Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Spaghetti squash with spinach and chickpeas

I've been trying to find interesting things to do with spaghetti squash, since adding marinara sauce really is not good at all. I saw some good looking recipes for spaghetti squash and spinach fritters, but I'm way too lazy for that. Some googling turned up this recipe:
Along those lines, I baked the squash and scooped it out. Meanwhile, I sauteed some onions and garlic, then stirred in chickpeas and then spinach. I tossed it all together with some goat cheese, and it turned out pretty tasty:

Spinach and Quinoa Salad with Dill

I'm trying to find new things to do with dill, and some googling turned up these recipes:

So I tried to combine the two recipes a bit.

I sauteed a chopped onion.
Cooked a cup of quinoa on top of that.
While the quinoa was still warm, I stirred in a bunch of chopped spinach. 
Then I mixed in chickpeas, chopped dill, avocado, grape tomatoes, and a couple of pulverized hot peppers.
I dressed the salad with some lemon juice and evoo.
Sliced or slivered almonds might have been a good idea, but pine nuts would have been fantastic if I had had any. The tomatoes were an afterthought: I threw them in because they needed to be used up, but they turned out to be a great addition!