Recipe for Butternut Mac 'n' Cheese ♥

Today's vegetable recipe: Creamy cheesy mac' n' cheese but given a healthy twist by the addition of rich roasted butternut squash.

~recipe & photo updated 2011~
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ORIGINAL POST 2008 Today we kick off the 2008 collection of Thanksgiving vegetable recipes (update: please see the latest collection, Favorite Recipes for Thanksgiving's Favorite Vegetables) with a recipe for macaroni and cheese that'll have your family asking, "Who made the mac 'n' cheese?" Oh boy oh boy, this is a mac 'n' cheese that's completely familiar and yet also a surprise, thanks to the 'secret ingredient' of roasted butternut squash.

If you're like me, and then a dozen Slow Food St. Louis taste testers, and then my dad, you'll wonder, 'Why didn't we combine these before?' The combination is deeper, richer, earthier and yet still completely mac 'n' cheese -- it just works! Here's why, I think --
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