Alert!  This Mexican-flavored spaghetti squash with chile-spiced pinto beans causes purring noises while eating. Really. I’ve heard those contented purrs from across the dinner table! Brick-red chile-spiced beans and golden spaghetti-like strands–this is a gorgeous purr-worthy vegetarian meal.

When cooked, the insides of the oval yellow squash can be separated with a fork into yellow strands that resemble thin spaghetti pasta. Yay for vegetable spaghetti! It’s a perfect low calorie, low carbohydrate vehicle for most any sauce you would serve with pasta. Enchilada-sauced pinto beans are my favorite way to serve spaghetti squash!

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Cinnamon spice and everything nice. Sift together these 6 fragrant seasonings and you’ll be set to whip up your favorite pumpkin recipes! Freshly made homemade pumpkin spice mix is happening!  

When the autumn leaves start to change colors, even before cooler weather, in August, pumpkin and pumpkin spice go front and center. People become pumpkin obsessed–everywhere you turn, it’s pumpkin-spiced something.

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When fresh basil is garden plentiful, pull out the food processor and whip up a batch. This pesto freezes beautifully, so when you want pesto for pasta or pizza, there’s a stash of basil walnut pesto ready to use!

Using a food processor, this pesto is quick to make–the work is in stripping the basil leaves off the stems. The garlic is super-easy to mince–begin your pesto by dropping whole garlic cloves in the work bowl while the processor is running and the blade is spinning. When the garlic stops hitting the sides of the processor bowl, it’s perfecty minced!

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