O' Hoagie, Where Art Thou?

If you read my post from Saturday, you already know that this weekend was rough. Totally worse than last week. I suspect it's because I'm so busy during the week that I don't have time to really indulge in anything. The weekends are a different story, especially when you're moving furniture and cleaning all day [which is precisely how I spent my weekend]. Whenever we've moved, we would always grab pizza and subs [you know, something quick and easy with minimal cutlery required]. Plus weekends for me are usually lazy with the exception of cleaning and running some errands. I like to stew in those relaxing moments by putting zero effort into cooking and/or baking. So, when I finished cleaning and setting up the new furniture, I was craving a hoagie HARD. I even mentioned it to Tim just because I could feel a good mood swing comin' on [told you, I was craving it hard]. For the most part, I had been keeping my cravings to myself. I felt to give voice to them was to give them power, and I needed to avoid that at all cost! My resolve is only so strong. During this particular crave, I knew it was unfair to keep him in the dark about why I was hating life.


Craving a hoagie is weird because I'm more of a pizza person than a hoagie person. Don't get me wrong, I love a good hoagie, but pizza is just the tits.

Hello, beautiful.

Cheesy, saucy, doughy tits. [wow. I think I just cured myself of pizza. doughy tits? what am I saying].

It is a scientific fact that simple carbs are addictive. No, I'm not going to get all science-y on you about it because 1) I'm not a scientist and 2) I really, really want you to read up on this topic yourself. I will say that when your body breaks down the components of something like a hoagie roll, it releases a ton of fun chemicals.


One of them being heroin. Okay fine, not exactly but it does release chemicals with highly addictive qualities. Plus, for most of us, eating is either a social thing or an emotional thing. Yes, we have to eat to survive but we're choosing foods that are tied to emotions and memories. They don't call them 'comfort foods' for nothin!

By the evening, my hoagie lust had turned into pasta lust. I would have severed my arm for some penne vodka. That shit's fuckin delish [especially from La Fontana].  My brilliant idea was to visually trick myself into thinking I was eating pasta. "How does that work?" It's not by eating a picture of pasta, just so you know. We decided that we'd have our 'pasta' via spahetti squash.

"What the heck is that?" I'm so glad you asked. It's a pretty, yellow squash found next to its butternut cousin in the produce section. It's SUPER easy to prepare. [I could kick myself because I forgot to take pictures...I'm new to this, back off].

Pierce the squash with a fork like you would a yam or potato. Then stick it in the microwave for 5 - 6 min per pound OR you bake it in the oven for about an hour at 375. You know it's done if you can cut through it easily. [Careful, that shit has some steam and it is hot]. When you pull it out of the oven/mircowave, you should let it sit for a few minutes before cutting in half and digging out the seeds. Then you scrape out all the spaghetti-looking strands with a fork. Voila! You have 'spaghetti'. At least that's what you're visually tricking yourself into thinking. You can treat the 'spaghetti' like you would normally treat real spaghetti: pasta sauce, marsala, etc. We tossed it with sautéed mushrooms, zucchini and onion with a light olive oil, garlic and lemon sauce. Simply incredible.

I was super full and extremely satisfied, but it's all veggies so in like an hour, I was getting hungry again. We should have paired it with some quinoa or something with more protein. Next time, my friends, next time.

Anyway, it was perfectly satiating. I highly recommend trying it. Because I'm a bonehead and I didn't take any pictures, I just HAD to find you some potential recipes!

This blog is hysterical though if you're non-dairy, you can swap out the butter with Earth Balance butter or use olive oil: Spaghetti Squash with Garlic and Butter

This is a vegan recipe with a bangin' Avocado Cream Sauce

Enjoy!