Whether you are excited about the change to the fall season or lamenting the passing of summer, we are definitely headed into the fall produce season. If you go to farmer’s markets, you will start to notice the arrival of various types of apples and pears and things like winter squash. One of my wife’s favorite varieties of winter squash is the butternut variety and as such, I try to make it fairly often in the fall moving into the winter season.

This dish is very simple, combining several fall ingredients with one of the ultimate fall cooking methods, roasting. The dish takes about 40 minutes to make and only contains a handful of ingredients but the flavors end up really making this dish sing.  Recipe follows after the jump… Continue reading →