Creative cooking requires a little investment into kitchen appliances. Would you ever consider spiralizing butternut squash and then stuffing it with strips of beef and spaghetti along with green and yellow summer squash?
If you are looking for something appetizing to cook, while equally showing off your culinary skills, try adding these two affordable tools to your cookware.
Two Affordable Creative Cooking Tools
Veggetti: This tool has been around, but I recently decided to try it. You can buy them online through Amazon, from their website, or at home good stores.
Over the 4th of July weekend, I purchased the Veggetti from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I love Bed, Bath, and Beyond because of the 20% off coupons that never expire.
Using the Veggetti, I found it to be simple to use and did what it claimed. I really was able to turn summer squash into veggie-spaghetti.
The Veggetti comes in a couple of sizes. There is a larger Veggetti machine that does more of the work for you. I purchased the manual version, which was just under $10.
Pineapple Corer Slicer: Again, I bought this at Bed, Bath and Beyond at the same time that I purchased the Veggetti. If you get a large enough butternut squash, you can spiral it, making it a beautiful and edible dish.
- Extra large butternut squash
- 2 green summer squash
- 1 yellow summer squash
- .5 lb. of thinly sliced beef
- Spiral veggies with veggetti or a spiral vegetable slicer.
- Cut top off butternut squash, then use pineapple corer to spiral out the inside. Cut off any excess skin that wasn't cut off by the spiral slicer.
I chose not to cut the skin off from my butternut squash. Most of the inner core was cut out from the hard outer skin. There was just a small section left that had skin remaining, so I scraped it off with the knife. You can also use a skin remover too and cut the skin off in advance.
Sautéed Spaghetti Veggies
To make your veggies look like more like spaghetti made out of vegetables the cook time do not cook it too well. I chose to cook it well along with the beef.
Sauce
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Don’t be afraid to shake things up in the kitchen and explore some creative cooking tips.
Looks fun and easy! I really don’t like cooking but I have to eat lol. I have never tried squash before and I have read lots of recipes lately with squash.
It is fun and it was super easy to make. I try not to be picky when it comes to food. Squash is tasty especially butternut squash. 🙂
I love finding new squash recipes to try. I never would have thought to include beef along side the squash.
I was trying fo be creative. Beef pairs rather well with squash. Overall, the meal was healthy and I like to add veggies with my protein. 🙂
I’m salivating. I’d love to eat this 😉 🙂 .
It was tasty. You should try butternut squash with beef strips. 🙂
This looks so yummy! My mother in law has a zucchini “pasta” maker and it’s so awesome! I need one to add to my kitchen!
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I know, I wish I would have gotten the machine. I think I’m going to go back to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and get a motorized one. It was more fun than I thought to turn veggies into pasta. A future recipe I think I’ll make is vegetarian pasta. 🙂
I have thought about buying one but wasn’t sure of recipes I might create with it. Great suggestions
Yeah, I’ve seen both the vegetable pasta makers and the pineapple corer. The corer works great and turns food into fun and fancy curls. 🙂
That looks so cool! I really need to invest in one of those so I can make awesome looking recipes like this.
It is great to make things like this especially when entertaining guests. But the veggie pasta maker is cool if you want to turn veggies into pasta and add pasta sauce. I think it’s one way I can get my daughter to eat more veggies. 🙂
Excellent recipe and video! Looks great!
Thanks, Ipuna cooking is a great way to experiment in the kitchen and eat more at home. It also allows you to cook in a healthy way like using Coconut Amino Acids to your meals. 🙂
I did not know they made a pineapple corer and slicer. I want one, even if I don’t eat pineapple very often.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I thought it would be difficult to use, but it works great.
I love this because I love my Veggetti and look for any reason to use it. And, I just love to use the word Veggetti!
Yeah, it’s really cool. I enjoyed using it and think that I eventually get the larger Veggetti machine. I think they named the tool properly, it’s quite catchy. 🙂
Looks like a fun week in the kitchen!I I am definitely picking up that sauce at Trader Joes this weekend 🙂
Yeah, coconut amino acid. It’s great stuff. I love cooking with it. It’s super versatile and can be added to anything.
This looks delicious! What a fun way to cut your veggies! Xx-Doran @HauteBeautyGuide
I know I love it! I used to never enjoy cooking, but now I can’t get enough of it! 🙂
This is healthy and a great idea, putting twist on squash recipe. I love how the ingredients were cut. I hope I can find a kitchen stuff that will easily do the cutting of different shapes and sizes for me.
I know, I love the way it can make things much more creative in the kitchen. It’s crazy because I never ever used to cook. I hated cooking and now, I have a love for it. 🙂
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