What to call this pasta?

Fall mac and cheese, roasted squash baked pasta, cheesy bacon squash penne? All I know is that this might be the best pasta I've ever made. Seriously. If fall had a flavor it would be this for me, you can keep pumpkin spice everything. So here's what's in it:

1squash- carnival, acorn, or small butternut

8 oz pasta cooked al dente 

4 slices bacon

1 onion

2 cups chicken stock

1/3 lb provolone

Grated Parmesan

1/2 cup light cream or milk

1/4 cup flour

Dried rosemary, garlic powder, salt and pepper

Roast the seasoned squash at 400 until toasty and tender. I started roasting in slices before I planned on this dish, I would have cut it in half otherwise. Remove skin from squash and break it up in bite size chunks when done. Cook bacon until crisp, set aside and sauté onion in grease until carmelized. Season and add flour, cook for a minute. Stir in stock until thickened and add cream and cheese. Stir until melted and remove from heat. Combine cooked pasta with cheese sauce and fold in bacon and squash. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake at 400 until bubbly 10-15 min. Note that I tried to lighten it up with more chicken broth than cream. There is so much flavor going on in this dish that you really don't need it to be any richer. 

On the crafty home front:

Oilcloth wine bags... I'm not sure. 

bunny bag and general craftiness

It's been a good week as far as getting crafty goes, nothing too crazy but I will take any creative time I can get! So I made this cute little bunny bag, what follows isn't really a tutorial because it's a basic lined tote bag that you can find a million tutorials for out there on the web. I will offer you a tip on cutting burlap that is imperative. I am all about shortcuts and getting things done quickly but cutting burlap is where I follow the rules. After you measure where you would like to cut, find a strand that is at your cutting line

and gently ease it out of the fabric by bunching it and holding the strand while you smooth it back

If it breaks (and it probably will), just find the end and unweave it by pulling it out with a pin until you have a long enough thread to pull, bunch and smooth until it is free. Once it is out you will cut on that empty space and it will be a perfect straight cut.

I thought an aqua polka dot oilcloth bunny would be a cute idea. You can trace a shape onto the back or just wing it like I did.

I pinned this on (pins are a no-no for oilcloth but I am not about the rules today) and did a simple zigzag stitch around the edges.  I love the look of shiny oilcloth against the natural burlap! I happened to have a matching twill tape that I used for the straps and a cute floursack print for the lining.

That's it! Ready to give as an Easter gift. 

This week was Spirit week at my Julia's high school so we had to come up with different costumes every day, it's so much fun! Here are three:
Barnacle Boy

101 Dalmations

Tacky Florida Tourist

Not pictured are Green Alien and Star Wars day. 

My creative soul is happy.