Sunday, September 11, 2016

Steps 3 & 4

Let your squatermelon cool for a while after removing from the oven.


 Then peel the shell away...



...and use a fork or your fingers to shred the strands of its flesh into pasta-like strands of squaghetti. 
Stop shy of the membranous center where the seeds are.











You can store squaghetti in the fridge for up to a week. When you're ready to eat it, just heat it in the microwave and serve with any pasta sauce, or stir fry with other ingredients for gluten-free fried noodles. Enjoy!

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Steps 1 & 2

If you planted squash, and instead got squatermelons, it means you had squashes and melons growing near each other and your bees enjoyed both. That's my theory, anyway. Some of the squashes on my spaghetti squash vine are whitish-yellow and pure squash, some are green and thump/smell/taste like mild watermelon, and some are a little of both - speckled green on the outside but with a hard winter squash shell and easily stranding flesh. My daughter calls them squatermelons and they taste just fine. But how to cook? Easy...

Wash your squatermelon and wrap the stem in foil.


 Put it in the oven and set heat to 400 degrees for 1-1/2 hours.