Creative Cookery with Carolyn -- Spaghetti Squash

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I love it when people post what they are cooking/eating on their lj's. I love food, and over the last months have learned to control it rather than it control me. The best part of eating the way I do now is that it has taught me to have fun and experiment, often with limited ingredients (despite going to the store constantly).

Today's creation? Spaghetti Squash Beef Bake. Spaghetti squash, some hamburger w/onion, crushed tomatoes, muenster cheese (because that is what I had cheese-wise)...everything was pre-cooked except the cheese, then tossed into a 425 degree oven in my fav baking dish that I found recently under my son's couch in the loft. Reunion was sweet!

It was really really good. The pics are slightly blurry, but it was really, really good. Need to break out my camera next time! If you've always wondered about spaghetti squash, which looks like a big pale yellow dinosaur egg (and great fun to split open) you should try it. It is packed full of stringy goodness.

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Back when I could eat squash, I liked spaghetti squash a lot. We'd halve one, rub it with a bit of olive oil on the cut side, then bake for a while until it started to get soft, then remove it from the oven and scoop out the squash from the shell. Then either eat it in a bowl like spaghetti (usually with olive oil, garlic and cheese) or add it to other ingredients, casserole-style as you did, and bake it some more. Either way, it's yummy.

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No more squash? I only eat it now and then, but always enjoy it when I do. I haven't baked it--ought to try that sometime. Its versatile, definitely, and cheap, and get ALOT out of there.

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No squash or melons. Including pumpkin, which is a real sacrifice because I used to love pumpkin pie. It's kind of a personal thing, but I've been doing it for years.

The first time I was introduced to spaghetti squash, we baked it in the manner I described up-comment. It comes out of the shell really easily that way. Or you could bake it more thoroughly and eat it in the shell, using the shell as a bowl. Put it on a plate if you do that, though.

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I love pumpkin pie too but until I can figure out a sugar-free recipe, no pumpkin for me. I do have a can of it though--I figure I can figure something out. LOL. May experiment this weekeend.

:)