My Favorite Spaghetti Squash Recipe
Tina
9/2/2009 1:05:00 PM
I've never been a super big spaghetti squash fan. I never hated it, I just didn't really like it. I think my problem was trying to treat it like pasta. Sure it has individual strands and looks kind of like spaghetti, but it doesn't have the same texture. And frankly, it tastes just like squash.
Since I wasn't particularly happy with the flavor, the kids sure weren't. No matter how much cheese and sauce I piled on, they picked the toppings off and left the squash underneath. My general go-to recipes for hiding less favored vegetables won't really work for this. I like to hide things in soups - after a trip through the blender, if I say it's cheese soup and it's orange, how are they to know it's really butternut squash? I also like to sneak vegetables into fritattas and muffins. Even pancakes.
Finally I stumbled onto a recipe for Spaghetti Squash Pie. I almost didn't try it - it sounds pretty weird. I'm soooo glad I did. It's very much like a chess pie or even a pecan pie without the pecans. The kids (picky teenagers and 4yo alike) have been happy to eat it from the first time I made it. After a while I threw in a handful of chocolate chips and then they actually fought over it. It's even been a hit at potlucks - I've never returned with anything but an empty dish when I take this pie.
We've been getting spaghetti squash in our CSA share for the past few weeks. The good thing is that spaghetti squash tends to have a long shelf life so if I get a few of them in my share in one week I can let them sit on the counter until I'm ready to use them. However, now in this house they don't last long.
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