i got spaghetti squash in my basket this week. i've used it as a side dish before, just cooking it in the microwave with some butter and cinnamon, but this time i wanted to use it as a main dish, using the squash as "spaghetti noodles". i googled different ways to cook the squash, and one suggestion was to cook it in the crockpot. i'm all about using my crockpot whenever possible. the pros to using the crockpot were that i didn't have to try and cut the squash in 1/2 before cooking, like i would for the microwave, and it would be ready when i got home from work, rather than need an hour or more in the oven. win and win. i put a cup of water in the crockpot, put the squash in, and let it cook for 8 hours. worked like a champ! here's the con, and how you can avoid it: the squash seemed to have absorbed the cup of water i cooked it in, or squash is really juicy, because when i put it on the cutting board on the counter and cut into it, liquid went everywhere! so, cut yours in the sink.
scrape out the seeds, then scrape the sides out into a bowl or straight onto your plates! i chopped up 2 red peppers, 2 yellow peppers, and an onion and sauteed them in a little olive oil.
meanwhlie, i baked some chicken sausage stuffed with mozzarella and artichoke. i bought it at costco after having a sample awhile ago. it's delicious. so the final product was spaghetti squash, topped with homemade spaghetti sauce (thanks grandma cookie!), peppers and onions, and finally sliced sausage.
i thought it was very good, mostly due to the sausage. mr. d thought it was ok, he didn't like that some bites "tasted like squash". but he was excited that it was healthy.
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