I love my new cookware. I'm not allowed to have a grill on my porch (a fire hazard, they say, but they won't do a thing about all the chain smokers in my building, despite the statistics demonstrating that cigarettes are the leading cause of fires in the U.S.), so my sister Cathy alerted me to this fantastic invention called a "Cast-Iron Grill Pan." This revolutionary new material known as 'cast iron' is amazingly versatile, durable, and cheap. And the grill pan model allows one to grill at home without owning a real grill, which I find too expensive and too big a chore to maintain. So, I grabbed a recipe from the 'Cooking with Cast Iron' cookbook by Mara Reid Rogers, and made this Lime-Tequila Grill Pan Chicken. Except
without the tequila, as I find it to be one of the most vile liquors ever (mind you, I'm sure all I've ever had is the cheap stuff). I used some whiskey in the place of the tequila , and it worked. But what I most love about this thing are the GRILL MARKS! BRILLIANT!
This weekend, I also craved spaghetti - however, I'm trying my best to stay away from highly processed foods, and pasta is rather high-calorie. 4 ounces of spaghetti (dry) is over 400 calories, with 85 grams of carbohydrates. In contrast, 1 cup of spaghetti squash has only 42 calories, with 10 grams of carbohydrates. And cooking spaghetti squash is neat-o!
What does one eat with spaghetti squash? Why, spaghetti sauce, of course! I made a nice ragu on Sunday, too. Mmmmmmmmm....
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Um, April 8 anyone? No food! Back to the salt mines, lackey!
Heh Heh Heh
More food for the Hankmeister!
yay! I want a grill pan now! I'm so gonne get one, too. Promise you that mister. spaghetti squash, does that taste good? I want to try it at a dinner party (normally found in a grocery store? expensive?)
ciao
kat
Kat,
Yeah, spaghetti squash is tasty. Think of a mildly sweet pasta. Just make sure you cook it all the way through. It should be easy to find - expensive? Depends. It's more expensive than pasta - you can definitely feed more people with a couple pounds of pasta than you could with the equivalent weight of squash. But I find it's always a little more expensive to eat healthy - whether you're purchasing quality ingredients at Whole Foods or counting the time you spend to cook yourself.
Cheers!
Woohoo! I'm brilliant and famous now! Alright, you...enough flattery. I'm with Kinjo on this one--Get back to work!
Cathy
Listen to your sister, Mike. ;)
Okay, but I'll have you both know that my stomach is grumbling big time.
I saw your pictures on flickr, and I'm thinking "Why am I looking at pictures of Mikey's food". It's all clear now. Thank goodness.
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