4 great spaghetti squash recipes that also add real spaghetti because you're fooling yourself, Linda

There are so many ways a spaghetti squash can be prepared: it can be roasted, baked, barbecued, and strung out to make a low-carb spaghetti meal.

A spaghetti meal that that will taste nothing like spaghetti. Spaghetti is perfect, chewy, and delightful, and nothing will ever replace it. Here are 4 spaghetti squash recipes that are heavily augmented with actual spaghetti, which is a tasty and wonderful food unlike spaghetti squash, which, in case we are not being clear, is not.

Carber's Delight

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius). Lightly grease a baking sheet.

2. Chop spaghetti squash in half, placing it facedown on the baking sheet.

3. Boil some water and make some spaghetti. This will be what's actually good about your meal.

4. Pick a good spaghetti sauce. One that goes with the real spaghetti. Don't compromise. What we're most concerned about here is the actual spaghetti.

5. Take the spaghetti squash out of the oven whenever, I don't know really. When you smell it. Scrape a bit of it on top of the spaghetti like you would with Parmesan cheese. Not enough to affect the taste.

6. Enjoy spaghetti.

Actual Spaghetti With Bonus Extras

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees Celsius). Heavily butter a baking sheet. Might as well get a bit of flavour on this thing, huh?

2. Chop spaghetti squash in half, placing it face-up on the baking sheet. Take care not to disturb any of the butter.

3. Boil water and make spaghetti.

4. After 30 minutes or when the butter has nicely browned, take the spaghetti squash out of the oven.

5. Scrape the butter from the baking sheet and the spaghetti squash onto your actual spaghetti, which will be your meal.

6. Dispose of the spaghetti squash.

7. Enjoy spaghetti.

Spaghetti "Oops!"

1. Preheat oven to 600 degrees Fahrenheit (316 degrees Celsius).

2. Just chuck a spaghetti squash in there.

3. Leave it for 5 hours.

4. Oh no, it's burned. Darn, eh?

5. Dispose of spaghetti squash, it's garbage now.

6. Kind of was anyway.

7. Make spaghetti.

8. Eat the real spaghetti.

9. Enjoy the real spaghetti.

Actual Spaghetti With Full Un-Cut Spaghetti Squash Just Sitting Nearby For Decoration

1. Make spaghetti.

2. Put a spaghetti squash somewhere on the table as well while you eat the real spaghetti.

3. If you don't have one that's okay.

4. They don't even look that good.

5. One of the uglier squashes, you'd think they'd make up for it with taste of some kind.

6. But no.

7. No.

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