Pray tell... what is squash ?

For me, it has always been juice extract from a fruit, but it seems
NOT to be that in this case .. or am I wrong ?
Thanks,
Frank

"Emily" > a écrit s21...
> Hi all. I am interested in trying out spaghetti squash for use as
> spaghetti under sauce. I have no idea how to cook it or anything though,
> so I'd appreciate a recipe or tips or something. I've already got a good
> meat sauce recipe, just want something lower carb than pasta to go under
> it.
> Actually, a friend of mine was just diagnosed as a pre-diabetic and her
> regular doc (very savvy if you ask me) is being very pro-active about it.
> She has a meter and test strips (prescribed) and is on metformin. Her doc
> told her to eat to the meter. (more or less, she said, if you wonder about
> a particular food, eat it and then test. If your meter says it's o.k.,
> keep eating it. If your meter says it isn't o.k., change). My friend has
> been trying to lose weight for a while, and has been doing a really great
> job of low carbing it. (her doc said no MORE than 45g of carb at a meal,
> and less is always good. Her doc also uses the stricter AACE BG's rather
> than the ADA BG and this is her PCP not an endo!). She has a strong
> family history of type II diabetes, and her dad is in VERY poor health
> because he eats whatever he wants and doesn't test his sugar, or take his
> meds (he's on insulin now, but doesn't really take that either..), so she
> has some good motivation to get in control and quickly. She doesn't want
> her pre-diabetes to turn into diabetes, and she's hoping that by losing
> weight she can no longer even have pre-diabetes. She has also been
> wanting to try spaghetti squash. I plan to have her and her husband over
> for dinner as soon as I'm settled in my new place, and thought it would be
> a great time to try out the spaghetti squash. (I'd also boil some
> spaghetti for her husband, who is not a fan of many things vegetable.
> Though I told her if she smothered the squash with sauce before serving it
> to him, her husband would never notice that it wasn't really spaghetti...)
>
> Anyways, any info on how to prepare spaghetti squash would be quite
> welcome. Thanks!
>
> Emily