tasty tuesday's (...but on sunday. oops.)

"and his hair was made of spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti...."

anybody else listen to Raffi?

we like that song...and I always find myself singing it when I make this recipe.

it's just too catchy a tune.

anyway! i've been seeing a lot of methods out there 

(mostly pinterest) 

on how to make spaghetti squash.

well i've made two attempts and one was definitely easier/better than the other one...so i'm here to help.

i'm going to share the easy one, of course.

whether you are paleo like us,

OR you just want to get more veggies into your diet in a delicious way, OR you need to sneak vegetables into your kids without them noticing. 
this is definitely the recipe for you.

plus it's super simple and only requires 3 ingredients.

are you ready? good. here we go.

Spaghetti Squash Spaghetti

what you need:

1 spaghetti squash 

1 jar of spaghetti sauce 

1 lb ground beef

(if you're paleo! get clean spaghetti sauce - one where you can read all the ingredients, know what they are, and they are in the paleo diet! also, try to get grass-fed beef if you can!)

what you do:

preheat your oven to 375 degrees

take the squash and pierce holes all throughout

place it in a baking dish and let it bake for 1 hour

while it's baking (in the last 10 minutes or so to go) brown your beef and heat up your spaghetti sauce.

when it's been an hour take out your squash, 

cut it open,

(i like to cut it into quarters just to make things easier)

take a fork (just a regular ole table fork) 
and start shredding the inside of the squash.

it'll be very easy to do and you can use 
all of the insides all the way up to the skin.

these will be your noodles!

they won't be quite as mushy as regular noodles, 
a little more al dente if you will, 
but they don't taste squash-y at ALL. 
they really blend in with the whole plate very well.

dish out some "noodles",

add some beef on top,

then add some sauce.

enjoy!

here is a pic of the boys really getting down and dirty with their spaghetti :)

and here's a pic of my bowl. the finished product.

looks like a bowl of spaghetti, right?!

any kid would eat this right up!

so what are you waiting for...? 

go make some for dinner...you won't regret it!

"And his name was, Aikendrum!"

had to get that out ;)