Yellow Squash Becomes Spaghetti?

One day I was chopping up my yellow squash to have as a side with some mussels in spicy marinara and I thought, I wonder if this kind of squash would work as spaghetti.

There is of course a spaghetti squash that people use this way, but I thought I'd give it a go with regular yellow squash.

Like all good Italian food, this is the most simple recipe. The list of what you'll need is almost not necessary:

yellow squash
salt
Romano cheese, to taste

First I cut the squash into strips so it would look like spaghetti.

I put a pot of water on to boil and salted it like I would with pasta water.

I cooked the strips until they were tender. Then I ran them under cold water to stop the cooking process so they wouldn't get so mushy.

I topped it with marinara and grated Romano and tested it out.

Turns out it's really hard to stop the squash from getting a little too mushy, even with the cold water rinse. Perhaps I'll try this again with a different cooking technique. The flavor was great though. This is one of the drawing board.