Okay, it's a great substitute for angel hair pasta. And it's tasty - nutty, faintly sweet, with pleasing mouth-feel. So far I've halved the squash crosswise and then microwaved each half for 15 minutes. Then I lift out the seeds and scrape the pasta-like flesh into a container. I wok up some items to mix into the squash: steamed broccoli, steamed green beans, crispy tofu, poached chicken, stir-fry beef cubes, steamed eggplant, portabella mushrooms, steamed wheat berries, etc. Broccoli seems to the overall winner with the squash. Plus stir-fry beef and mushrooms, and it's pretty hearty. Wheat berries also taste very pleasing with the squash.
One $4.00 package of stir-fry beef can last the entire week if you dice it, cook it with mushrooms and garlic, and add it to a vat of squash and broccoli. Toothsome, but not pretty. Thus, no camera pics.
I am obsessed with spaghetti squash. My roommate watched incredulously as I scraped "spaghetti" from a halved squash still steaming from the microwave. She just can't get over it. I'm just happy to share the joys of eating obscure and very tasty vegetables for cheap.
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