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Maple Roasted Butternut Squash

A simple Fall side dish, made with just 3 ingredients (butternut, pure maple syrup and oil) plus s + p!

My aunt LOVES butternut squash and shared this recipe with me. I personally an not a huge fan of sweet food (I prefer my butternut squash savory) but since many of you might enjoy this, I thought I would share. It’s too easy not to!

The hardest thing about making this is peeling and cutting the squash, but the good news is you can buy it pre-cut, so if you want to do that, I say by all means, go for it!

Maple Roasted Butternut Squash
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Servings: 4 • Size: 3/4 cup • Old Points: 1 • Points+: 3 pt
Calories: 104 • Fat: 2 g • Carb: 23 g • Fiber: 4 g • Protein: 1 g • Sugar: 7 g
Sodium: 7 mg • Cholest: 0 mg

Ingredients:

1 1/4 lbs butternut squash, peeled and diced 3/4-inch
1/2 tbsp olive oil or coconut oil
2 1/2 tbsp pure maple syrup
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

In a large bowl, toss the butternut squash with oil, maple, salt and fresh ground pepper.
Place in a baking dish, cover with foil and roast in the center of the oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, turn the squash and bake an addition 15 minutes, or until fork tender (time will vary depending on the size you cut the squash).

Makes 3 cups.

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Southwestern Black Bean Salad

I love making this colorful, salad when the weather warms, it makes
enough to feed a crowd and makes a great side dish or appetizer if
served with chips. It’s also great as a topping for taco salads or
served with grilled meat and fresh tortillas.

And
BONUS, this salad is low in saturated fat and loaded with antioxidants. A
perfect summer side dish for grilled meat, fish or chicken. It’s best
when you use sweet fresh roasted corn, but if corn is not in season,
frozen, thawed corn will work just fine in it’s place.

Southwestern Black Bean Salad
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Servings: 13 • Size: 1/2 cup • Old Points: 1 • Weight Watcher Points+: 2 pt
Calories: 79.5 • Fat: 3.5 g • Carb: 12 g • Fiber: 3 g • Protein: 3 g • Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 127 mg (without the salt) • Cholest: 0 mg
Ingredients:

15.5 oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
9 oz cooked corn, fresh or frozen (thawed if frozen)
1 medium tomato, chopped
1/3 cup red onion, chopped
1 scallion, chopped
1 1/2 – 2 limes, juice of
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp fresh minced cilantro (or more to taste)
salt and fresh pepper
1 medium hass avocado, diced
1 diced jalapeno (optional)

Directions:
In a large bowl, combine beans, corn, tomato, onion, scallion, cilantro, salt and pepper. Squeeze fresh lime juice to taste and stir in olive oil. Marinate in the refrigerator 30 minutes. Add avocado just before serving.

Makes about 6 1/2 cups.

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Cream of Cauliflower – Come for the Soup, Stay for the Bacon Gremolata

We’re heading into the heart of hot soup season, and this
cream of cauliflower will ward off autumn’s chill with the best of them. I’m a
big fan of the cauliflower in all forms, but this simple soup may be my
favorite application.

Of course, human nature being what it is, I wasn’t satisfied
with just the soup, and wanted to garnish with something new and exciting.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t think of anything, so I decided to follow that age-old
advice which says, “when in doubt, bacon.”

I’ve garnished soups like this with bacon before, but never
tried toasting breadcrumbs in the rendered fat. Not surprisingly, it worked
very well, and the additions of lemon zest and parsley elevated things even
more. The only problem with a recipe like this is the next time I’m served a
cream of cauliflower, no matter how good it is, I’m going to be a little sad
there’s no bacon gremolata floating on top.

By the way, I realize there are no breadcrumbs in a true
gremolata, but I thought it sounded kind of cool, and besides, I’ve never been
that big on respecting the sanctity of culinary terms. I was going to go with
“baconized breadcrumbs,” but that sounded a little too much like molecular
gastronomy, which is much worse.

If you’re not into eating animals, some diced shiitake
mushrooms and a pinch of smoked paprika would be a great substitute in the
gremolata. You’d also need to add some olive oil to replace the rendered bacon
fat, but you probably knew that.

Now that I think about it, that vegetarian version sounds
pretty amazing as well. Maybe next time I’ll skip the bacon and…oh, who am I
kidding? Anyway, I hope you give this delicious fall soup a try soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for about 8 servings:

1 onion, chopped

1 rib celery, chopped

1 tbsp olive oil

3 cloves garlic

salt to taste

1 large russet potato, peeled, quartered

2 heads cauliflower, trimmed

1 quart chicken broth

1 quart water

1/2 cup cream

cayenne to taste

For the gremolata:

4 strips bacon

1 1/2 cups fresh breadcrumbs