{"id":68,"date":"2014-03-15T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T04:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-03-15T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T04:18:24","slug":"grilled-butternut-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/grilled-butternut-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Grilled Butternut Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t plan anything for dinner Friday, so semi-last minute, Mark suggested we grill. We defrosted a couple of sausages and sliced a butternut squash.<\/p>\n

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I mixed olive and canola oil (because I hear olive oil is better for lower temp cooking and canola for higher temp cooking, so I mixed the two in hopes that the canola would temper the olive, I don’t know if it really works that way…) with salt, pepper and garlic, and let that sit around for about 30 minutes before brushing on the squash.<\/p>\n

Our lease forbids charcoal grills so we got a gas grill when we moved. Mark usually does the grilling (as he did Friday night), so I can’t speak to ease of use, but I like how fast it is. Food doesn’t have that same smokey taste you get with charcoal, but it’s still cooked. And delicious!<\/p>\n

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We also had a salad of lettuce and a bunch of stuff we have in the fridge and pantry.<\/p>\n

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I mixed up a dressing which included olive oil, apple cider vinegar, mayo, garlic, oregano, thyme and pepper. We don’t usually get this elaborate but I was craving something different from the balsamic vinaigrette we usually make. I dressed the salad before serving, another thing we don’t usually do. I think this is the secret to a really good salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t plan anything for dinner Friday, so semi-last minute, Mark suggested we grill. We defrosted a couple of sausages and sliced a butternut squash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinner","category-grill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}