Thai It, You'll Like It!

Or maybe you won't. I don't know…

I was never a big Thai food fan. The only thing I really liked was ridiculously unhealthy Thai Iced Tea where they dump sweetened condensed milk into some cold tea. Yeah. I know. How else do you think I got this way?

After the great cauliflower debacle of 2014 last week, I was a bit leery about making Pad Thai.

What? You don't know what happened with the cauliflower? Let me give you a brief summary.

There has been a photo/recipe making the rounds online of a head of cauliflower that is covered with a spice/yogurt mixture and roasted whole. With all of the great recipes I have tried with cauliflower lately (pizza crust, fried rice) I thought this would be a winner.

It wasn't.

It was terrible.

As a matter of fact, it probably tasted worse than the time when Rachel on Friends accidentally made a trifle with jam, pudding, cream, beef and peas.

Words can not express how rancid that thing was. I tried to puree it with some vegetable stock to make a soup and managed to make it even more disgusting. Eww. On top of that, my house reeked of curry and coriander and dog farts. And we don't even have a dog.

So you can imagine my lack of total enthusiasm when cooking this Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai.

My husband wandered into the kitchen and commented about the questionable smell that was happening, and I was worried we were going have a repeat of last week. Mercifully, the Pad Thai was pretty damn good. It actually grew on me after a few bites and tasted even better the next day when I had it for lunch! I would imagine you have to have some affinity for tofu to enjoy this, as it is chock-full of squishy tofu cubes. I don't mind that at all, and I did not notice anything funky from using the Nam Pla, or fish sauce, that the recipe called for. I didn't miss the noodles at all, and that's saying something!

Here is a link to the recipe from Fitness Magazine, and thanks to my friend Terri for pointing it out when we were gabbing/exercising on the recumbent bikes at the gym. I added some of the Hoisin Turkey Meatballs to mine, and another friend is going to try it with shrimp. I would imagine you could alter this with other proteins and veggies to your liking. Have fun with it!

Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai