I'm trying to figure out who could possibly be desperate enough to mistake spaghetti squash for pasta. I finally tried it last night, and am unimpressed. The first trick was getting into the darned thing - very hard shell, resistant to my best knives. I felt lucky not to injure myself cutting it in half to scoop out the seeds and microwave it.

It took almost 20 minutes of microwaving to persuade the darned thing to pass "crunchy". I guess the best I can say is that it isn't horrid, but there's a distinct "squash" flavor. Pasta it ain't, and I don't think I'll repeat the experiment. Other, of course, than cooking the rest of it tonight and maybe freezing it.

That way I show I'm smart twice -- once for being thrifty and freezing it, and later for being smart and not killing myself by eating the freezer-burned mess and throwing it out. (to paraphrase George Carlin).