This recipe for mashed fall vegetables with bacon and thyme is one of those things that just came out of the blue and kind of made itself, when I had set out to make something completely different. Or so I thought. What I thought I was making was roasted fall vegetables. I had some nice cut up butternut squash, some red potatoes, a couple of onions and some carrots, and I was right in the middle of roasting them to go with some roasted chicken, and that's when it hit me.