Spaghetti...Squash!

So what is this thing called spaghetti squash?  I hear it tastes like cookies and it can replace the pasta in your spaghetti...sounds way too good to be true.  I just had to find out for my self!  Last night, my husband and I (ok mainly him) made some meat spaghetti sauce and cooked up this oh so popular spaghetti squash. Check it out!

meat sauce (after so many helpings haha)

Meat sauce:

1 lb organic, grass-fed ground beef
1 large organic onion
1 large organic green pepper
2-3 small organic carrots
1 32oz bottle of organic spaghetti sauce
olive oil

Place a tablespoon of olive oil into a pan.  Add the chopped onions and sautee.  Add the ground beef.  Once the ground beef is brown, add the green pepper, carrots and the spaghetti sauce.  Simmer for about 30 min or however long the squash takes to cook.

spaghetti squash

Squash:

Cut squash in half and remove the seeds.  Then place on a baking tray with the cut sides facing down.  Bake for 30 minutes.  Now just use a fork to remove the squash from its skin, it comes off like noodles. Voila!









While the squash didn't taste like cookies (darn it!), it was pretty good!  It has the consistency of the thin rice noodles, also called Singaporean noodles, and it was good.  Definitely good enough to replace the pasta!  So good and sooo healthy!