Yellow Squash – Raw?
This week I’m back at the all-day meetings in a hotel conference room for work. Today the afternoon snack that the hotel catering staff brought in really impressed me, and I learned something new.
They brought in a giant veggie tray (that’s a giant tray, not a tray of giant veggies!) with carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, yellow squash, and celery all cut into easy-to-eat chunks surrounding a bowl of hummus. They also had a bowl of baked pita chips, but those don’t have much nutritional value so I avoided them. I’m positive I’ve never eaten summer squash raw before, but I was intrigued so I added a single spear of yellow squash to my little plate.
It was so delicious! I went back and got a plateful. I’m totally going to be eating raw yellow squash sliced into spears from now on! I found it to be the perfect way to eat a little bit of hummus – a little crunchy, but light and not overpowering in flavor. A+ for the catering staff at the Four Points Sheraton for introducing me to a new way to eat a veggie I wasn’t previously a huge fan of!
Snack Time in the Conference Room
Edited to add: Oh yeah, and I almost forgot the best part! A cup of summer squash is about 18 calories- that’s like nothing! I could completely gorge myself on this stuff and not damage my weight management efforts in any way!
“I’m totally going to be eating raw yellow squash sliced into spears from now on!”
Noted, and allowances will be made!
Yellow squash is one of my absolute favorite summer veggies. I eat it both raw and grilled. Yummy!! Never tried it with hummus though, but hummus is good with any veggie!
Various recipes I’ve seen but not tried, claim that if you cut raw summer squash and/or zuchini with a veggie pealer in long ribbons, it makes a good stand in for pasta. So, squash ribbons tossed with diced raw tomatoes of various colors and chopped green and purple basil with a splash of balsamic could be tasty, colorful and not too many calories.
Sounds good. I eat raw zucchini but, like you, have not tried yellow squash raw. Thanks for the idea.