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What Fall Foods Are You Excited For?

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[Photograph: Robyn Lee]

Sure, it's sad to pack up the grill tongs and charcoal but it's pretty exciting to know that fat pumpkins are just around the corner. Autumn is a season of hearty stews, butternut squash, cider jugs, roasted meats, apple pie, and pumpkin everything. What foods are you most excited for? Here's a smattering to get you started.

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Pumpkin bread, pecan pie, Southern Comfort apple pie, chili... the list goes on! Autumn is my favorite season :)

Natural cider.

There are still a couple of cidermakers around here that are small enough that they've been able to temporarily escape the regulations requiring pasteurization. So I can wait until the cider hardens (gets zippy) and carbonates. It's a wonderful drink, and one that matters to me a lot to be able to keep having.

ALL OF IT!!!!! I'm excited for weather cool enough for soup to be necessary and desirable - I hold off on the Beef Guinness stew until it's truly winter cold, but in fall I love lentil soup, split pea, and my butternut squash with quinoa. And, as you put it in the question, I do look forward to pumpkin everything, bread in particular. And honeycrisp apples - although the gingergolds at a local orchard are already impressing me this year. (Can you hear me jumping up and down with joy?!)

Plus, with cooler weather my husband ends his summer chocolate-making hiatus, so I'll have homemade truffles again soon. (whimper)

Autumn is way not my favorite season for reasons completely unrelated to food. but I'm looking forward to bionic apples, a locally-made version of caramel apples made with Grannie Smiths and roasted pecans. And I look forward to starting the marinating process that begins my second annual pair of black cakes for the holiday season.

Soups, honey crisp apples, pecan pie, pecan squares, hot chocolate, hot cider...the aroma of warm cinnamon and sugar!

Apples, apples and more apples,fresh off the tree.

Pumpkin anything, to herald in my favourite season (autumn, we call it :) )
However wrong it sounds, and the West has never been touted as the bagel capital of the world...but I have fond memories of the pumpkin bagels that Noah's Bagels used to make seasonally. I lament the limited sweet choices on the East coast....

Fall and winter are my favorite seasons so I'm very excited for the coming months! I'm looking foward to crisp apples and pears, pumpkin bread, and just a general shift towards heavier, comfort foods.

Autumn is definitely my favorite season for food...anything with pumpkin (mmmmmm), sweet potatoes, apples, cinnamon, soups...

I would list chili here but I consider that more of a winter thing...but we'll see depending on how cold it gets!

Apple butter on thick homemade bread.

Pfffffft. You can still BBQ for at least another month. Better yet, grill all that gorgeous fall produce! I love squash of all kinds (pumpkin, butternut, buttercup, etc.), apples, beans, soups and stews...

I love fall greens.

Hot, spicy cider! Baking EVERYTHING with pumpkin! Apples apples apples! Yummy squashes! Tasty figs! POMEGRANATES (which continue into the winter but are always around by Halloween).

I just baked my first pumpkin-y treat of the season and it was DELICIOUS. Totally takes that end-of-summer sting away.

winter squash, pumpkin-inspired sweets

Where did you get that enormous frosted scone Robyn (or Erin)?

hot saki in a double boiler on top of my woodstove..... and everything else everyone has mentioned..... especially roasted buttercup squash with apples.....

Pumpkin pie, hot apple cider, and the move towards thicker and heartier foods (stews, soups, and dense breads for example).

Mince pie!, cant get enough of the stuff, love to heat it, and have it with cold cottage cheese!

APPLE BUTTER!

Hauling out my old slow cooker again and coming home to the smell of... anything.

Hard squash, cranberries, stews. There's this place in town that sells Mexican Chicken Soup. It's too hot here in the summer to have it, but that first cool day we have, I will be in line with everyone else for my chicken soup.

lemons-What are black cakes??

Pumpkin Pie Ranch Flaming Pizza Explosion Doritos

apples....crisp, juicy, fragrant apples like Winesaps.

@HeartofGlass: Alice's Tea Cup on the Upper West Side in Manhattan!

apple cider donuts!

Curious to try Delicata squash, picking some up tomorrow from my csa.

I love anything made of pumpkin except, oddly enough, pumpkin pie.

Pumpkin spice lattes and apple cider donuts!

@SugarChef: PLEASE tell me about your Southern Comfort Apple Pie. My boyfriend loves both pie and SoCo and if you've found a way to combine the two, you'll make me look amazing.

People in my family think I'm weird, but I'm obsessed with Fall. Aside from the food, I look forward to this time all year. Now that it's upon us, though, I'll probably make butternut squash ravioli, pumpkin brownies, soups & stews, homemade bread. I'm not above partaking in store-bought treats, either. Each fall my local Mexican market makes pumpkin empenadas and the bakery section of Ralphs Supermarket begins selling pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, which are cake-like in consistancy and can't be replicated, as far as I'm concerned.

Butternut Squash and sweet potatoes - ravioli, gnocchi, soups, roasted, mashed - the possibilities are really endless. I had a butternut squash/ roasted apple soup last year and I'm still thinking about it! Hot apple cider and pot roast ranks up there also. Bring on fall.

Pumpkin everything! Pumpkin bread, chocolate pumpkin bread, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin butter... you get the idea.

Winter squash... all types... especially pumpkin, kabocha, and red kuri... oh, it's too hard to choose; I love them all!

Sweet potatoes (and regular potatoes)...

Apples (and apple cider)...

Pears... cranberries... pomegranates...

I can't stand cold weather, and am always sad to see the summer end... my only comfort as the autumn season approaches is the amazing fall produce that awaits; sometimes it *almost* makes up for the cold... but not quite.

I live in southern louisiana, so the local fall crop Im most looking forward to is satsumas! SO AMAZING!! you have to wait for the first freeze, then the next day they are as sweet as candy.

Pumpkin Ale. There is a local brewery that makes an annual batch they release on Halloween and its usually gone in a day or two. Picking up a couple of growlers is a Halloween tradition.

I just got bought a copy of Rustic Fruit Desserts by Julie Richardson and Cory Schreiber yesterday and can't wait to make the desserts with apples and pears, especially the apple cobbler with cheddar cheese biscuits and gingered pear and raspberry pandowdy.

Fall is by far not my favorite season, but now I'm excited about going to Alice's Tea Cup--roast carrots on black bread sounds yummy! And that scone....

Pot Roast, oven roasted root veggies, bourbon.

I had no idea everything pumpkin was so popular.

@kathyvegas Haven't had winesaps in years; where do you live - northeast?

Northern Spies are my favorite cooking apple, (and getting rarer) but count me in with the honeycrisp lovers.

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup-I so look forward to making this every year. I force myself to hold off until we get our first hint of Fall chill and it's like an Autumn celebration in a bowl! I roast the squash along with onions & herbs so that everything has as deep a flavor as possible to build an amazing base, hit it with stock & a hand mixer and top it with bacon, sour cream, and diced apple. YUM-Fingers crossed for a cool Autumn night in Georgia very, very soon!

OT, but it's kind of sad that I immediately recognized those pumpkin scones as ones from Alice's Tea Cup. I don't know what that says about me, lol.

Anything done in the slow cooker. I'm a sucker for coming home to a house that is filled with the wonderful aroma of a dinner all set to go! And of course, a delicious dutch apple pie to follow up with for dessert!

I broke down last night and made winter squash polenta topped with beans and sage. It was a delicious fall preview meal, even though I'll never see fall in Miami.

bessfour: I like the way you think!

Caramel apples, Pumpkin Lattes, Chili, Foods that go with college day football and 75% off candy after Halloween!

Football watching/tailgating foods, butternut and acorn squash, pumpkin, and apple crisp...

I love teaching people how to actually EAT those fall porch decorations we call pumpkins, gourds, and squash.

While many of them have a tough outer skin, the flesh underneath is sweet and very nutritious.

You can peel, seed, cube and simmer any of the squash in a flavorful stock, strain and puree for a great fall soup.

Try butternut squash and green apple soup by baking them together until very soft. Puree the two and adjust consistency with vegetable stock or cream. Garnish with cinnamon!

Or, Acorn squash is great baked in a white sauce or cheese sauce. Peel, seed, dice the acorn squash. Make your favorite white sauce. I prefer a brie and Swiss cheese sauce. Toss with the diced squash, and bake until soft. Top with crumbs if you'd like.

Examine these fall vegetables more closely than how they look next to your front door.

Chef Todd Mohr

Butternut squash... we make ravioli with it... yum!
Oh, and definitely tailgating foods... GO GATORS!!

Pumpkin butter. And making a big pot of chili!

@bessfour: Hear, hear!

I love persimmons and avocados, which come into season here in Southern California in the fall. There's also apple butter from the nearby mountain orchards and pumpkins grown on a local farm. And roasted squash is always delicious, especially stuffed with a wild rice mix and alongside some braised greens!

Apple cider, apple cheddar strata, sauteed apples and chicken, apple sausage risotto -- aaaaand I guess some good ol' beef stew.

Pears of all sorts. Acorn squash that are baked. Roasted root vegetables with balsamic. Beef stews. Pumpkin pie. Apples, though I don't have a favorite. Apple juice and/or natural cider.

Cider donuts! My first stop when I get to NY in October is the Union Square farmers' market.

delicata squash, all things pumpkin, Cortland apples

Thanksgiving EVERYTHING!
- Punkin pie,
- turkey with cran sauce
- smashed pots with gravy
- squash soups
- sweet potatoes....

Brussels sprouts from the farmer's market, roasted in the oven. Even people who normally hate them love these ones!

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