This summer has gotten ahead of me so quickly, but I finally have time to sit down and catch up on the blog backlog! This one goes back to June 24th when I was on my own again. A neighbor had dropped off a spaghetti squash since their garden was going wild with them. Never one to turn away free vegetables, I steamed the squash, scraped out the wonderfully nutty and delicious spaghetti strands, added some Italian sausage and tomatoes, topped it off with blue cheese, and called that a dinner! On the side is a tomato and cucumber salad along with a bowl of raspberries from our backyard invader raspberry bush. The neighbor isn’t fond of raspberries, but the plant has special family meaning (I believe it propagated from another family member’s garden and has been passed down and around a bunch), so she’s more than happy to let us collect all the berries we can have. This past year it took off under the fence and found a nice spot in our yard, so we’re happy to let it stay.
Ingredients:
Spaghetti Squash – Neighbor’s Garden
Italian Sausage – M&M Creek Valley Farm
Blue Cheese – Birchrun Hills
Tomatoes – Full Circle CSA
Raspberries – Our Yard
Armenian Cucumber – Full Circle CSA
Non Local – Vinegar, Salt, Pepper