Food: Vegetable Spaghetti Salad Curry

We do pretty well with all sorts of squashes and courgettes in the garden, but I find the spaghetti squash sometimes the most challenging to cook; great texture, zero flavour! Trawling the internet produces dozens of recipes where the vegetable is used as a substitute for its carbohydrate namesake - cook it, shred it and stick a ragu or cheese sauce on it, and for extra excitement pile it back in the shell and bake/grill it - but that just doesn't work for me.  Apart from anything else, we eat a high carbo diet as we are normally pretty active people and carbohydrates are usually cheap!

Frugal Friday Fish

We always seem to eat fish on a Friday.  I'm not quite sure why; it's certainly not a religious thing, but probably reflects that Friday is the day when the fishmonger has the best stuff on his slab.  Anyway, we were spoiled rotten living in Devon, having such good fresh fish right on the doorstep.  It was wonderful to be on such good terms with the guys in the fish market that they would keep back a hake for me, knowing that I would always buy it if they had one.  But more often than not, the Spanish would have snaffled all the hake before it got beyond the wholesale market.  So we'd slum it with line caught mackerel or stiff fresh sea bass.