I have a love-hate relationship with spaghetti squash…..
I love eating it but I hate cooking it.
First – it’s hard.
Really hard.
I use my big cleaver and a mallet to cut it.
Second – it has to be scraped out twice. The initial … Continue reading.....
This is a lazy dish that looks a bit fancy….. Perfect holiday entertaining.
Well, it is as long as you have leftover spaghetti squash and some tomato sauce in the freezer or pantry.
We are two.
When I cut into a spaghetti or butternut squash … Continue reading.....
It’s a strange day today (day after US elections).
As I have no words or, actually, far too many words, I thought I would just share some strange food that I’ve been making.
The first, the pizza, is an actual recipe (now) and worthy of … Continue reading.....
I love spaghetti squash.
Mon mari tolerates spaghetti squash.
However, he loves meatballs.
Compromise:
He’ll happily eat spaghetti squash as often as I want if I top it with meatballs.
I can work with that.
Comfort food.
It varies from person to person and country to country.
I, personally, have never seen the over-the-top appeal of Mac & Cheese.
It’s good, yes; comforting, probably; but something to order in a restaurant? I don’t think so!
Something to put lobster in … Continue reading.....
I suppose one could call it an early Christmas present…..
I’d been planning / hoping to get a new computer sometime in the next year or so. Mine was 4 years old and excruciatingly slow. Okay, maybe I have too many programs open at the … Continue reading.....
The garden has been closed for winter.
The last of the tomatoes made one more batch of soup and the last of the squashes were picked and laid in the sun to cure.
Even though the winter squashes got off to a slow start (apparently … Continue reading.....
My last spaghetti squash.
It was a good harvest. I still have onions, shallots and five butternut squash left in the cave.
Five large butternut squash.
I have to admit I’m ready for something else – maybe some broccoli or a cauliflower or even a … Continue reading.....
Once again I was paging through Pinterest and saw something interesting (one has to do something with morning coffee).
What I saw suggested that I (and many, many others) may have been cutting spaghetti squash the wrong way.
I’ve always cut it in half the … Continue reading.....
Spaghetti and Meatballs will never be the same…..
At least not chez nous.
I’m really loving the spaghetti squash – I get to have (sort of) pasta dishes that I love without having to cook two meals or have mon mari eat something he’d prefer … Continue reading.....
