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Spicy Roasted Pumpkin with Feta

spicy roasted pumpkin with feta // my bacon-wrapped life

Can someone please explain to me how we’re almost halfway through November?! Time has been flying and Thanksgiving has completely crept up on me this year. It’s my absolute favorite holiday and I am counting down the days until lots of fam time and pumpkin pie!

Speaking of pumpkin, I’m popping in real quick with a non-traditional idea for your Thanskgiving (or Friendsgiving) feast: spicy roasted pumpkin with feta. This recipe is a tribute to one of my favorite unexpected things about Australia that we discovered on our honeymoon last year – all of the savory pumpkin! Here in the U.S., I pretty much exclusively see pumpkin in sweet dishes, but in Australia, it was on menus everywhere roasted as a delicious side dish and I completely fell in love. It was summer when we were there, so it definitely felt a little weird eating so much pumpkin, but I loved it and couldn’t resist ordering it pretty much whenever I saw it on the menu. It’s really just a less sweet squash, perfect for a cozy seasonal side that’s packed with flavor and a little unexpected.

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Vegan Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Bread

vegan cinnamon swirl pumpkin bread // my bacon-wrapped life

Today is a momentous occasion. It’s the First Pumpkin Recipe of the Year Day!!

Get on board, people. We celebrate these kind of things around here.

I’m a total pumpkin junkie, and this is the time of the year to do it all up all the time and be totally unapologetic about it. It’s not even that cold yet, but I couldn’t wait to start shoving some warm, cinnamon-y pumpkin goods in my face. And I’m here to tell ya, you should probably follow suit. Stat.

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