Tonight's dinner was Spaghetti squash spaghetti with sliced Cucumber on the side. It was pretty easy, just make your favorite spaghetti sauce, whether it be from a jar, homemade or a little of both. Then serve your sauce over spaghetti squash instead of pasta.
First, buy a spaghetti squash from the store, cut in half, de-seed and put sliced sides down in a pan, I add a little water, then bake at 375 for 40-45 mins. Then start making your sauce.
I saute 1/2 diced bell pepper, 1/2 onion, 5-6 mushrooms with 1/2 lb lean ground turkey and a small can of sliced olives (the heavy mushroom and olive addition makes up for the smaller amount ground turkey used) spiced with garlic and Italian seasonings (add spices to make it spicy if you don't have little ones, I had to omit spice from my sauce when they came around!). Then add a jar of spaghetti sauce to the meat/veggie pan. I have a homemade sauce recipe, but that is a different post for another day!
Once the Squash is done you should be able to just take a fork and scrape the strands of squash right out, super fast and easy at that point.
Not everyone in my family likes the spaghetti squash alternative to noodles, so I always make both and to be honest I do half pasta and half squash in my bowl too, only because I love pasta more than anything! But adding half squash noodles really makes the dish more filling and I tend to eat less because I get full faster. Making whole wheat noodles is another healthy alternative.
I give this recipe a B+ because the sauce is not homemade and because we still eat pasta along with the spaghetti squash, but maybe someday we will fully commit? At any rate this meal is quick and easy and has a lot of veggies in it. It is my favorite dinner :)
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