October 4 Ingredient Challenge

Last month’s four ingredient challenge left a bit to be desired for me. I’m sorry, but I’m just not a fan of tofu. It’s not that good for you, really; it’s just a vegetable protein alternative to meat. I’m not a vegetarian, so I’d rather have lean meat. Or bacon.

This month brought more of a Halloween theme, with some good fall apples thrown in. The ingredients for this month are:

• Chicken
• Apples
• Brown Rice
• Pumpkin

Not a bad list to put together for a challenge. However, I don’t really do much with pumpkin; I don’t even like pumpkin pie, so I had to think on this one a bit.

Luckily, I was checking out Pinterest, a new way to share stuff around the web that you like with others (I really like it, by the way). While doing so, I came across a photo of a pumpkin with guacamole and decided I had to use that idea for this.

So I made my ingredients… Brown rice boiled on the stove, with apple slices and chicken grilled on the Big Green Egg. I did some work with the pumpkin while the grill was chugging along, too.

I combined the rice and apples, then cut up the chicken breast (with just salt and pepper for seasoning) and added that. To give it some flavor, I added one of my favorite sauces, Hot Squeeze, a sweet, spice chipotle sauce. This stuff really is great stuff; it would even be good on ice cream, I think! I added just about a tablespoon, just enough to mix everything together.

With no further ado, here’s my challenge dish for October!

And other entries in this months challenge are:

Larry Gaian of The BBQ Grail – ENTRY HERE

The BBQ Grail website was created in 2007, initially to document the author’s quest to find the perfect backyard BBQ experience. Since that time The BBQ Grail has become one of the more popular BBQ blogs on the internet and is listed on Alltop.com as one of the top BBQ blogs.

Paul Haight of No Excuses BBQ – ENTRY HERE

The No Excuses BBQ website was started in January of 2009 as a way to record the author’s goal of cooking outdoors at least once a week throughout the year and showing the results to the world. Somewhere along the way things got out of control…

Marc Van Der Wouw of Grill Adventures - ENTRY HERE

Grilladventures by broadcastmarc is started on march of 2010.I started the BBQ thing when I was 30,before that we eat a lot outside.have fun,but when the kids came in our life We start serious cooking.Most of it is realy healthy I think;-)The grill has a special place in my heart,We love to do things outside..Everything I make is an adventure,and sometimes we use the books.We try to grill as much as we can year round.

Hanneke Eerden of The Dutchess Cooks – ENTRY HERE

After years of cooking, grilling, baking and reading other people’s blogs, she thought “why not start my own blog?” And she did, in 2010, but after a short period of time a blog wasn’t enough and the she started her own website. In her own words: “It’s not my goal to publish or come up with fancy and difficult recipes: just good and delicious food with an international twist! Straight from my plate to yours!”

Kristina Vanni of “The Daily Dish” – ENTRY HERE

Kristina has been writing “The Daily Dish” for www.BetterRecipes.com for the past two years. The blog covers a wide variety of recipes, but firing up the grill truly lights up her passion for food! She was named ”America’s Next Pork Personality” by Guy Fieri for one of her grilled pork dishes, won the outdoor grilling division of the National Beef Cook-Off, and her winning grilled lamb-burger took her all the way to the land Down Under with Meat and Livestock Australia. The “4-Ingredient Challenge” is a fun and exciting way to get creative on the grill!

Freek Haan of Freek’s Foodblog – ENTRY HERE

Maybe some of you know me from my Dutch blogsite www.freeksbbq.nl. I have a great passion for grilling, since it is always challenging. For me grilling is a time to relax and to have a great time with friends and family. I wanted to reach more people with my blog since there are so many food lovers and freaks out there! So that’s why I decided to blog in English instead of Dutch.