Gouda, Bacon and Butternut Squash Pizza

Many, many years ago…

…in a land before time. I’m kiiiidddddinnnnggggg.

Let’s say more like 5 or 6 years ago, in a land called New York City, I developed this gouda, bacon and butternut squash pizza recipe for my site. The recipe is great! In fact, it’s better than great. It’s delicious, perfect for crisp fall evenings (especially when paired with a hard apple cider or pumpkin beer) and just packed with all the right flavors. The crispy bacon, the sweet apples, the creamy squash, the melty cheese on top, the fresh thyme. I mean, I’m drooling just typing that sentence. The only problem? The pictures. They looked like they belonged more in a haunted house than they did any civilized fall dinner menu. So the recipe got saved in Google drive, the pictures were deleted and the post was taken down but with the vow that I would re-do the photos at a later date. Well, somehow a lot of years went by, I continued making the pizza, but somehow I just never managed to get the photos re-done.

Until last month, when all the pizza stars aligned. It was pizza Friday night, Dave had brought home some hard pumpkin ciders, I had just cooked a butternut squash, and somehow, by some weird miracle/coincidence we just so happened to have all the other pizza ingredients on hand. It was a sign.

So, finally, after way too long and way too many years where you’ve all been so tragically deprived of this epic fall pizza recipe (I’m sorry, please forgive me?!), I present to you the new and improved (Yup, even the recipe got a few little upgrades!), butternut squash pizza recipe. I promise the wait was worth it.

BECAUSE FOOD TASTES BETTER WHEN IT’S SHARED WITH OTHERS…

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