Anyone ever cooked spaghetti squash? Help!

[gastrognome]

Hi,
Just cooked spaghetti squash for the first time and it was less spaghetti, more stodgy stringy stuff.

It was incredibly delicious in flavour, but didn't separate nicely into the strands that you see in pictures.

I baked it in the oven for an hour, then cut it in two lengthwise, scraped out seeds and used a fork to tease out the flesh into spaghetti strands (as per various recipes found online). Then put in pan to warm through with loads of butter and salt. Tasted like the most delicious baked potato in the world. But the resulting texture was basically mashed root vegetable with some stringy bits.

Has anybody cooked this successfully? What did I do wrong?

Thanks

Sorry just realised I wasn't very clear. When I tried to get the flesh out with the fork it was already very squishy and not really falling into long strands.

Erm, I take it that spaghetti choice is not a popular dinner choice then...

When I made it, I just microwaved it cut in half, then raked with a fork and added butter on the plate. It was properly spagetti, so I think you overcooked

Thanks. How long did you microwave for?

I think it was 5 minutes for the half

I'd love to try this but have never found it anywhere - are you in the UK? If so, where did you get it? Then I promise I'll try one and let you know how it turns out

I've just been looking at this to try. Looks delicious.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/squash-spinach-pasta-rotolo

Not in the UK (Belgium) but this is the first time I've ever spotted one in the supermarket. So not very common here either.
The flavour is so delicious though, I was really surprised.
Will try the microwave method next time (though I suspect that some of the great flavour came from the slow baking).
Will check out that JO recipe too, thank you.

Tesco have them