How to make Bacon and Butternut Squash Pasta that touches all the emotions

Do you ever have those days where you’re so defeated and upset, only pasta can fix it?

As someone in their twenties, it happens to me more often than I’d like.

Sometimes we have bad days. We miss our train, our car breaks down, we mess up at work, and Mercury is somehow always in retrograde. Here’s the thing about pasta, though: It never lets you down. It’s there for you when you’re happy, when you’re sad, or when you’re not even hungry -- you just want something salty, buttery, and full of gluten while you’re on the couch.

Enter my bacon butternut squash pasta. You might not be able to say it five times fast, but you can make it with just five main ingredients in less than 45 minutes. If you don’t have shallots, you can use a small red onion — tears will likely be shed either way.

I regularly use this in my meal prep rotation because it has everything I want in a dish: warm, salty pasta for comfort, bacon and Parmesan for indulgence and crispy butternut squash for my serving of vegetables.

If you’re having a bad day, a good day, or even just an average day, I hope you’ll consider my bacon butternut squash pasta to add some brightness to your kitchen and belly!

This story was originally published September 9, 2022 at 12:51 PM with the headline "How to make Bacon and Butternut Squash Pasta that touches all the emotions."