Toni's Tip #3 - How to cook spaghetti squash

Not gonna lie, this is a bit of a pain in the a**, however the reward of delicious spaghetti squash is well worth it.









1. Buy spaghetti squash -- don't be tricked by imitators such as the butternut squash.















2. Cut squash in half lengthwise, this is my least favorite part for one of two reasons: 1. I don't think I have a good enough knife to be cutting through the squash, one of those pumpkin carving knifes would be key here. 2. There is no strong man, or person for that matter, readily available for me to pass this task off to (note to self: increase weight on chest press)

3. Once you get it cut open scrape out the seeds from the middle (oh yeah did I mention to pre-heat the oven to 400?... do that).

4. Lay the squash halves skin side up on a baking sheet and cook for 30-40 min (skin will start to look slightly translucent)

5. Remove from oven, let cool for a bit. Here's the fun part, somehow in the process of cooking this squash the meat of it turns into this amazing stringy noodle like mass when scraped out with a fork, hence the name spaghetti squash.

6. You can eat it just like spaghetti or make Toni's delicious spaghetti squash pizza bake.