the.com/spaghetti squash
the gourd that tricks dinner into thinking it's pasta and almost gets away with it
means A large yellow oblong winter squash whose cooked flesh separates into thin, pasta-like strands when scraped with a fork.
from A plain English compound stitched together from two borrowed words. 'Spaghetti' comes from Italian, the plural diminutive of 'spago,' meaning string or twine — so spaghetti literally means 'little strings,' which is exactly what this squash impersonates. 'Squash' is a clipping of the Narragansett word 'askutasquash,' meaning roughly 'eaten raw' or 'green thing eaten unripe,' carried into English by early colonists in New England. The squash itself is a 20th-century cultivar, and the descriptive name simply records the moment someone scraped one open and noticed the strands looked like pasta.
- strand magic
- flesh separates into noodle-like ribbons when cooked
- calorie con
- one cup has roughly 42 calories
- keeps long
- stores for months in a cool pantry
- winter squash
- harvested mature with a hard, durable rind
- native roots
- squashes originated in the Americas thousands of years ago
delicata squash — winter squash variety with edible skin, grown commercially in california since the 1970s
butternut squash — tan winter squash with orange flesh, most popular winter squash in north america