Friday, December 13, 2013

Spaghetti Squash

 Feels like I haven't baked/cooked for a long time!  I finally got around to making spaghetti squash!  I read about these a while ago but never got around to actually making it until now.  It was hard trying to buy these since the Asian supermarkets don't have them, the corner supermarkets doesn't have them, even BJs doesn't have them.  I tried Trader Joe's but they were all sold out, guess these squashes are pretty popular.  Finally I was able to find them at Whole Foods and they were on sale for $1.49/lb.  Even though I picked the tiniest squash, it still came out to $4 for the squash. 

I used 2 recipes:  one from the Pioneer Woman and one from Simply Recipes.  The hardest part was cutting the squash in half!  I used the Chinese cleavers which are pretty big and it still took me almost 15 minutes to cut it half.  After that, it was pretty easy, just putting it in the oven and cooking it until it got soft.  It definitely tasted better with tomato sauce than on it's own.