Spaghetti Tacos and Cinnamon Sugar Spaghetti Squash

My kids wanted me to make Spaghetti Tacos, which is something they saw on an episode of iCarly (which is one of their favorite T.V. shows). Carly's brother Spencer, who is an eccentric artist and her caretaker, makes spaghetti tacos for dinner one night. My kids really really want me to make this.

There is something about loading carbs onto more carbs that isn't too appealing. But, the things we do for our kids.

Ingredients:

12 oz spaghetti noodles - cooked and drained

26 oz spaghetti sauce (your choice)

1 (.7oz ) pkg dry italian seasoning mix

1 lb ground beef browned and drained

crunchy taco shells

parmesan cheese or shredded cheese for topping

Directions:

Brown ground beef in a pot and drain. While draining, boil spaghetti in the same pot 9-11 minutes or until done. Drain.

Add the beef back into the pot and add Italian seasoning mix and stir into meat well. Add sauce and mix into meat followed by the spaghetti and simmer until warm.

Bake taco shells at 325 degrees for 5-6 minutes or until warm.

Spoon spaghetti mix into the taco shells, top with desired toppings and enjoy :)

This was copied from a website for Nickelodeon's iCarly Spaghetti Taco Recipe. I hope you enjoy your tacos.

VERDICT!

We enjoyed these, my kids loved them. This is a good idea to use with your leftover spaghetti. We will most likely make these again. My husband said he had definitely not ever had something like that before. I like to shake things up a little bit :)

I also made another spaghetti squash. This time I used brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. My kids said it was good. My husband said it tasted like carmel cinnamon apple. I thought it was really a nice flavor. I kept thinking it would make a nice alternative to an apple pie filling or to use as a filler with the apple pie filling.

Spaghetti Squash with spaghetti sauce

OK, I didn't eat dinner last night, but I made it. I made Spaghetti Squash with spaghetti sauce. The spaghetti sauce was a can of Hunts Spaghetti sauce. Which I have in my food storage. So, I've never actually made spaghetti squash before, I had to go to ask.com and find out. I watched their video tutorial and it helped a lot. Here is what I did...

I poked holes around the outside of the spaghetti squash. several on each side. Then I placed it on a cookie sheet in a preheated oven of 375F for 1 hour. Then I let it set for about 1 hour, when it was cool enough to touch. Then I sliced it in half, scraped out the seeds and stringy stuff attached to the seeds. Then once I dumped out the seeds and stuff, I used the tines of a fork to start shredding the sides of the pulp which pulled nicely off into little shreds of what looks like spaghetti.

I heated the spaghetti sauce on the stove, and then poured it on top of the spaghetti squash. Mixed it up and then served it to the boys with parmesan cheese. When Bill had some he said it tasted just like al dente pasta. He said it was really good.

I had been invited to my first Bunco game as a sub for one of the original players. It was a crazy evening, so no pictures sorry. But I will be making something else with the spaghetti squash soon. I have two of them, well now one. I'm looking forward to documenting my next spaghetti squash adventure.