Beef Tangine and Beet, Orange, & Quinoa Salad

Beef tagine with butternut squash and a side of sauteed lemon garlic spinach, with beet, blood orange, kumquat, and quinoa salad.  I bought the wrong squash and got butterCUP squash instead.  I think it mainly influenced the texture.  I did the salad because I love beets and have never cooked raw beets before.  That was cool because after boiling and slicing the beets, my hands looked like I slaughtered a goat.  Even though the salad was a weird combination of things, it was a tasty flavor punch.  Just a little labor intensive.

RECIPES:

Beef Tagine with Butternut Squash

Beet, Blood Orange, Kumquat, and Quinoa Salad

Tandoori-spiced Chicken

Tandoori-spiced chicken with basmati rice, a side of sauteed garlic spinach, and a fresh garden salad.  Topping it off with citrus pudding for dessert.  I’m not gonna lie, the citrus pudding was a little weird.  It tasted good, but it was weird getting that flavor from pudding.

Tandoori-spiced Chicken:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=50400000109607

Citrus Pudding:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=50400000109605