Harvest cobb salad with maple vinaigrette

Here's the other recipe I promised for a delicious Harvest Cobb salad using leftover roasted butternut squash and maple dressing from this one.  I am fully embracing fall even though it is still warm here, so bring on the butternut squash and pumpkin spice lattes!  

Note: We omitted the chicken to make ours vegetarian- that's the great thing about building a salad, you can add or subtract to your own taste!

Recipe from The Baker Chick

Butternut squash and bacon salad with maple vinaigrette

We made this butternut squash and bacon salad from Cooking Classy this week and it was a big hit!  Roasted butternut squash is one of my favorite ways to transition from summer produce to fall flavors (in fact, I'll have another recipe this week using the rest of our roasted squash AND more of this dressing, so this is a two-fer!).  One of my favorite things about salad is you can add and subtract ingredients to suit your taste- we used candied pecans instead of walnuts in this one, and we use whatever greens are already in our refrigerator.  Try this one!!

Cinnamon chip banana bread

Recently I had some ripe bananas that needed to be consumed asap, and I uncovered this recipe I had bookmarked long ago from Recipe Girl for cinnamon chip banana bread.  This is a delicious, sweet, banana bread, and the cinnamon chips add spice and warmth- perfect for the cooler fall weather!