{"id":27204,"date":"2012-10-02T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27204"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:47:45","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-spaghetti-squash-okonomiyaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/02\/ill-make-it-myself-spaghetti-squash-okonomiyaki\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself: “Spaghetti-Squash Okonomiyaki”"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em>The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>. A writer and web administrator for <\/em>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a>, ze also writes <\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to\u00a0jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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While on my squash spree<\/a> last month, I picked up a spaghetti squash, which has a great name in Japanese, too: soumen kabocha<\/em> (\u305d\u3046\u3081\u3093\u304b\u307c\u3061\u3083), like soumen noodles, or kinshiuri<\/em> (\u91d1\u7cf8\u74dc), \u201cgolden thread squash.\u201d This was my first time cooking this type of squash, and I had no idea what to do with it. First, I tried eating it like spaghetti and made a tomato sauce for it.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t bad, just unimpressive, though my husband thought it was some sort of Italian-seasoned coleslaw (I don\u2019t even) for the lentil burgers I had also made.<\/p>\n

His mistake, while tasty, didn\u2019t solve my problem for what to do with the rest of the squash. My searches of all the blogs, cookbooks, and cooking sites I use didn\u2019t turn up much in the way of other recipes that I felt like eating and I didn\u2019t have the time to hit or budget the store for more ingredients. Maybe I\u2019d use it in a \u201cleftovers\u201d food like stir-fry, or\u2013great idea #1\u2013okonomiyaki<\/a>. Without any cabbage, which I rarely have in stock, I hit on great idea #2: forget the cabbage, the squash would be the vegetable base.<\/p>\n

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L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[191,412,488,451,776,775,777,399],"class_list":["post-27204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-japan","tag-japanese-food","tag-okonomiyaki","tag-recipes","tag-soumen-kabocha","tag-spaghetti-squash","tag-vegetables","tag-vegetarian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-74M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42781,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions\/42781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}