It’s not you, it’s me.
I get it. I get that you’re a good substitute for carb-loaded pasta. I thought if I threw enough butter and garlic and herbs on you, I could make it work. But it didn’t. It just tasted like a lot of butter and garlic and herbs on a stringy and often watery vegetable.
Yes, I know you’re versatile, that Martha Stewart has developed a dozen recipes for you, and Country Living offers 50.
Yes, you keep well in storage, are packed full of nutrients, have very few calories, are relatively inexpensive, and are gluten-free.
It just feels like I’m … well, settling. See, if I want spaghetti, I want spaghetti. If I want squash, I want squash. That’s just the way it is.
I’m sorry, my little Cucurbita pepo. I tried.
— Katy Budge
you nailed it!
but really, who doesn’t love a vessel to load butter and garlic on to!
Perhaps we need to find some way to give it a little char, so it has more inherent flavor, not just what we add to it. But it’s a bit soggy for that, so I say Amen, Sistah! Bring on the pasta!
Cheers!
Carol
You’ll probably get a lot of hate mail for this one. : )