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.

Comments

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Oh I love to cook! Enjoying your posts and blue's. I've always wanted to try spaghetti squash like this and I never have. You really are on a low-carb diet, aren't you? I did that once and it worked great. I should do it again. However, I cook for 1 adult with a million allergies and picky food preferences and 2 picky-eater kids with different tastes. It SUCKS! I eat everything, except sweet veggies like beets, carrots, winter squash. Anyway, looks yummy!

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It is more no sugar, no starch diet. (ignores fact I just succumbed to an amazing lemon cupcake here at work that our client brought in--omg incredible! but I *am* allowing myself proper splurges--that one was proper!)

Unlike Atkins, I eat all the fruits I want, I don't eat massive amounts of meat...I am more about balancing than anything. Good fats with lean meats (except the occasional rib eye--who wants lean steak? not me!), pretty much stay away from massive amounts of carbs like pasta, potatoes, rice. I had fish and chips in Wales, but that was the last time I had taters. Pasta--I would LOVE to eat pasta, but I don't like how it makes me feel afterwards. Sigh.

I will have them, but just with much consideration. Like Pizza! I am gearing up for that--my friend Anthony comes in two weeks and i think we'll go to eat Pizza together at Brick Oven.

I also don't drink sodas, and I read labels like crazy, stay far far away from aspartame and goopy food... LOL.

I AM HARD CORE!!!!

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Carbs are my downfall, I have to say. Bread, pasta, etc. Hard for me to resist. I shouldn't drink soda, either, but I'm kind of addicted to Diet Coke. Bad, I know. Did you devise this diet yourself or is it something published? Just curious. You lost a lot of weight, right? You kind of have to be hard core to do that, I think. I'd like to lose 10 lbs, but I need to decide to do it. I tend to focus more on exercise because that helps my mood, as my default mood is vaguely depressed.

"goopy food" - haha, not sure what that is, but it's a funny description.