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@bareneed: We have delicata squash here in Oregon and I've seen it other places on the West coast. Fall is my favorite and I'm actually cooking a big Fall dinner this evening. On the menu: Herb-roasted salmon (which my dad just caught this weekend!) with wine-wine butter sauce, chanterelle mushroom risotto, and a salad of maple glazed delicata squash with blue cheese, warm bacon cider vinaigrette, on top of baby greens! Yay Fall!

I'm also a pumpkin kinda gal. I love all the fall/Halloween treats, even the much maligned candy corn. But pumpkin stuff (pie, bread, butter, cake, soup, curry, cookies etc.), along with gingerbread, are my special favorites.

pumpkin, cinnamon, chocolate, apple, ... we really do go overboard on the apple baking though.

Roasted sweet potatoes. At the Asian markets around me, they'll often set up big metal drums and roast them and sell them by the paper bagful. The roasting aroma is the very essence of fall.

Fall is also the season for mushrooms, also my mom's herbtastic chicken soup.

It's got all kinds of medicinal herbs in it but it's so good you forget all about them, its supposed to bolster the heaty properties in your body in preparation for winter! The soup is a comfort and a cure all for everything from a cold to fall allergies.

Also weirdly enough, around this time of year is wax apple season in California. Until very recently, wax apples were nearly impossible to find in the U.S let alone any that didn't taste like packing peanuts. We just ordered a few straight from a farm in CA and my mom was elated. She said they tasted just like they did in Taiwan.
If the crops continue to be a success in California, I have a feeling we'll be sending out for more of these every year.

I'm with watchforbears, anything apple. Make mine Macoun.

PUMPKIN!!!!! Anything.

Too bad I'm studying abroad in the UK right now and I have yet to find canned pumpkin ANYWHERE! I asked a worker at the local grocery store if they had any, and he looked at me like I was crazy.

I will not go the entire fall without some pumpkin bread though, so I think I will just have to break down and roast up a fresh pumpkin myself and make my own puree. More time consuming, yes...but oh, it'll be worth it!

brussel sprouts cooked in bacon fat
yams and sweet potatoes
beef bourginon
apple crisp, apple cake, spiked cider, baked apples, apple dumplings
roasted chicken with herb butter shoved under the skin
french onion soup
chili & cornbread

brussel sprouts are my fav, but I also love spaghetti squash, butternut squash, pumpkin and apples in the Fall. It's my favorite time of year!

Feta cheese with tomatoes fresh out of the garden and kalamata olives sprinkled over a round of dough brushed with olive oil, minced garlic, greek oregano and a thin layer of mozzarella cheese is one of my favorite summer time pies. Even better when it's done on the grill.

No pepperone, love it uncooked with cheese & crackers or antipasto, but not on pizza, overpowers everything else. Same thing with bacon. Good sausage meat or plain cheese for me. And don't even start with those cowpies from Chicago!

I agree. Why is pepperoni the default ingredient?? I just think it's the most fun to say. Pepperoni.

I"m all for the raw sliced kohlrabi. Growing up we used to eat these out of hand, like an vegetable apple (after cutting off the outer skin, of course). They have a great mild taste and crunch and should be appreciated on their own.