On Dec 7, 5:48*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Dec 7, 3:36*pm, George Leppla > wrote:
>
> > On 12/7/2011 5:22 PM, Bryan wrote:
>
> > > When she
> > > arrived, she announced that she has used spaghetti squash instead of
> > > the noodles. *Why the F--k hadn't she just left out the noodles and
> > > not put in goddamned SQUASH. *I told her that I wouldn't eat such a
> > > thing.
>
> > So this woman goes out of her way to make something special thinking you
> > could eat it... and you tell her you wouldn't eat it. *Not couldn't.....
> > not didn't want to... but wouldn't eat it.
>
> Spaghetti squash is an excellent and tasty substitute for pasta for
> those trying to avoid simple carbs. *We'll steam it to eat with tomato
> sauce or with meat sauce. Scratching it lengthwise with a fork
> produces the "spaghetti" effect.

I'd rather have no substitute than something like squash. It could
have been
worse. It could have had that repulsive cauliflower starch
substitute. She wasn't
offended. We're pretty close, and she knows I'm really picky about
food.
I used to live with her, and in most ways she cooks like our mother,
but better
because she doesn't make any of the bad stuff our mother made. Her
sons both
low carb, and use stuff like squash, and her daughter does weird
macrobiotic
stuff.

--Bryan