Speaking of decorating. It’s like all my brain wants to think about! I’m not genuinely quite creative when it comes to decorating and pretty much only rely on Pinterest for all my interior designing inspiration. For my last house I went for a quite shabby chic, cottage vibe. For this house, I’m genuinely into lots of natural grain woods, white walls (which is a change from my last house where pretty much every single wall was painted with color), and kind of an industrial feel. It’s all coming along and I have a feeling I won’t be able to refrain from posting some pictures once things are more settled.

And can we take only one second to talk about how expensive furniture is?? Geese Louise. I’ve gotten crafty with my furniture shopping and learned to completely avoid certain stores (after having a snooty furniture sales woman laugh at me when I told her my budget for a sectional couch). I discovered this reliable store here in Nashville that imports a lot of furniture from India and Indonesia which is all QUITE reasonably priced. I bought one piece that’s made out of the wood from mango trees! (love!!). Since I don’t have the money to buy everything now, I’ll have to get pieces here and there. I’m looking forward to it being a bit of a slower process as oppossed to only “hurry up and buy things to fill space”.

With all of that, welcome to the first recipe from my new home! Because of all the busyness that comes with a move, Stephen and I have been eating out a lot lately…..more than I want to admit! And pretty much none of it was good. I mean, all of it was yummmyyy but we are both now a few pounds heavier. oops. SO, our house is now full of LOTS of veggies and lean meats and (of course) a ridiculous amount of eggs from the chickens.

Speaking of chickens….

They’re loving their new home minus the fact that they no longer have a garden of mine to ravage. There seems to be enough weeds and grass and bugs to keep them happy though. Our living room has an entire wall of glass windows/ doors and the chickens like to gaze inside the windows with intense curiosity. It’s my regular. The dogs, on the other hand, aren’t huge fans of the constant pecking at the windows.

OK. back to the healthy eating. I currently have 4 different kinds of squash in my house thanks to the Nashville Farmers’ Market. First up, this spaghetti squash!

I like to keep spaghetti squash simple and use it as a substitute for pasta dishes that I have made before. This dish is basically identical to THIS recipe of mine except that I replaced the gluten pasta with spaghetti squash. Straightforward!

While the squash bakes (in my gas oven!! i’ve never had a gas oven before!) the sauce is prepared. Once it’s all ready, only mix it together. Again: straightforward.

I then topped mine with green onion, cilantro, chopped peanuts, and sesame seeds.

I ended up loving this dish even more than I thought I would! Luckily for me, there’s still some leftovers in the fridge.