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A winter squash with a flesh that forms translucent spaghetti-like strands when cooked. Quite mild in flavor if not enhanced with other ingredients, the Spaghetti Squash can be cooked easily by baking, boiling or steaming.

A type of serving utensil, commonly made of wood or stainless steel, which is used to hold the long spaghetti noodles enabling them to be easily removed from a pot of boiling water.

A pasta strand very similar to vermicelli. Both thin spaghetti and vermicelli are slightly thinner than spaghettini.

A low carbohydrate pasta that is the same thickness and size as regular spaghetti. It has about 25% of the carbohydrates contained in regular pasta.

A kitchen tool designed to accurately gauge the amount of uncooked pasta that will be needed for serving from 1 to 4 portions of pasta.

A utensil used when preparing and serving various types of strand, ribbon or noodle pasta. The fork is spoon-shaped with upward pointing pieces, either dowel-like or prong-shaped, separated around or on the fork and lifter tool.

Long, round, thin strands of pasta, which are generally served with a cream or tomato sauce. It is one of the most commonly used pastas in the United States.

A large oval shaped green and tan colored squash that has a watermelon appearance in shape and color.

A food dish consisting of a base of cooked pasta (generally spaghetti) that has been combined with strips or chunks of poultry (most often chicken or turkey), and a cream sauce made with sherry and Parmesan cheese.

An oblong-shaped squash that is a variety of the spaghetti squash. It has a tan to yellow thick-skinned outer shell with a tapered oval shape.

A thick, strong flavored syrup, produced as a by-product when sugar is refined through several boilings of sugar cane or sugar beets.

A small portion of ground meat that has been seasoned and rolled into a round ball-like shape. Meatballs were most likely created as a way to use up excess meat, taking scraps of meat, grinding them into small bits and possibly adding some fillers to help hold the mixture together.