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

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)

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

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....

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!

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...

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.

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

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

APPLE BUTTER!

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.

Pumpkin Pie Ranch Flaming Pizza Explosion Doritos

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

apple cider donuts!

BEETS!!!

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

@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.

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

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.

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.

Pot Roast, oven roasted root veggies, bourbon.

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.

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.

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

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

Pumpkin butter. And making a big pot of chili!

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!

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.

delicata squash, all things pumpkin, Cortland apples

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