{"id":37,"date":"2026-02-22T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti-squash-salad"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:56:34","slug":"spaghetti-squash-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/spaghetti-squash-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaghetti Squash Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>3 pounds spaghetti squash<br \/>\n1\/4 C. parsley, chopped<br \/>\n1\/4 C. olive oil<br \/>\n2 Tbsp. margarine<br \/>\n2 tsp. fresh garlic, minced<br \/>\n1\/2 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced<br \/>\n3 Tbsp. butter or margarine<br \/>\n1\/4 C. grated parmesan cheese<br \/>\nsalt, to taste<br \/>\nfreshly ground pepper<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>With a knife, pierce the skin of squash in several places to allow steam to escape while  cooking. Place whole squash in microwave oven. Cook on high for 15 minutes, turning  once or twice. Remove from oven or steamer and let stand 10 minutes, or a steamer on  top of the stove. Or, cut in half lengthwise. Remove seeds and place cut side down in pot  with 2 inches of water. Cover and boil 20 minutes. In a small bowl, place parsley, olive  oil, margarine and garlic. Cook on high for 1 minute, or heat in pan on medium heat on  your stove; set aside. saute mushrooms in 3 Tbls. butter or margarine. Cut squash  in half lengthwise; remove seeds and membrane. With fork, gently pull spaghetti like  flesh away from side of outer skin. Combine squash with mushrooms. Pour butter  mixture over vegetables. Sprinkle with cheese, salt, and pepper. Stir and serve.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&quot;My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, &quot;Where is your God?&quot; (Psalms 42:3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaghetti<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/spaghetti-squash-salad\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaghetti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spaghetti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}