Butternut Squash Fettucini Alfredo

It's been a while since I did a new recipe! (or maybe took the time to blog a new recipe.)  Lately, I have gotten into selling things through our town's Buy, Sell, Trade page on Facebook. 

I even sold our CAR!! (seriously-I posted the pics and description and in less than an hour a couple was at our house and they bought it!!) 

Anyway, so while perusing Buzzfeed I found several delicious looking pasta recipes. 

Buzzfeed27 Easy Pasta recipes

I HAD to try this one! 

Butternut Squash Browned Butter and Rosemary Fettucini Alfredo

The recipe promises it'll be ready in 30 minutes (and it was!), that it's a lighter version of Fettucini Alfredo, and has lots of flavor. All promises delivered!

Here's the recipe:

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Ingredients

• 16 oz. whole wheat fettucini noodles (or any other whole grain pasta you want!)
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped
• 1 cup chicken stock (or vegetable stock or, in a pinch, water)
• 3 cups prepared diced butternut squash (about 1/2 a large squash)
• 1 cup milk
• salt and pepper, to taste

Cut up Butternut squash. This is about 1/2 of a large squash. This is about 3 cups.

You can look at my previous post on how to prepare the squash.

Butternut Squash Soup

4 tablespoons of butter and a small onion chopped

1 tablespoon of Rosemary finely chopped

Allow butter to get nice and brown, and onions cooked to translucent before adding the Rosemary and about a cup of Chicken Broth

Add the cups of butternut squash and cook on medium high heat for about 10 minutes till soft. 

Meanwhile, make your pasta. I had on hand regular Spaghetti noodles but you can use any. The recipe uses a Fettucini Noodle but these are just as delicious!

Once soft, mash with a potato masher.

Add one cup of milk, salt and pepper, heat milk through and then use an immersion blender to make smooth.  (If you don't have one you can use a food processor.)

Pour over noodles.

The flavors are so wonderful! The browned butter, rosemary and the squash. YUMMM

I also took it to work for my dinner and it reheated beautifully!

If you want- you can eat it as a soup!  

Thank you Buzzfeed! I can't wait to try more of their recipes!

Sweet Potato Oatmeal Breakfast Casserole via Oh She Glows

My work was having a "Heart Healthy Potluck" and I was stumped as to what I should bring. I can whip up chocolate chip cookies super quick but I don't think that's where they were heading… As I was perusing Buzzfeed I found this post: "15 Yummy New ways to Eat Oatmeal
That got me thinking. I had recently purchased some oatmeal so I decided to look for a recipe that I could use up some of that and also make something for work.
I decided to make #4 Sweet Potato Oatmeal Breakfast Casserole.
Imagine my happiness when I hit the link and discovered it was from one of my favorite cooking websites- ohsheglows.com!!
Isn't that the coolest website name! It practically makes you want to eat healthy immediately!

Here is the recipe:
RECIPE

Cook oatmeal, milk and Chia Seeds

Oatmeal and milk with Chia Seeds. 

Banana and canned Sweet Potato

I didn't have any Sweet Potatoes but I did have a can of sweet potatoes so I decided to try and see if this would work. I think it worked fine but starting with full potatoes make give the casserole more tooth. I'll have to try it again someday with sweet potatoes and see.

"Almond Crumbles"

The recipe calls for pecans but since I didn't have any, I pulsed some unsalted almonds in the food processor and make the topping with almonds instead. Very tasty!!

Batter!

One for my family, one for work, and one small ramekin just for the tot

The batter made enough for three different ramekin sizes. I took the largest to work to share with folks.

For work!

Work yumminess! It was GONE!

Can't wait to eat!

Just a few bites left for me!