First day of fall

[Texasgal]

and the pinto beans are slowly cooking on the stove... corn bread in the oven!

My favorite "fall" food. What are yours? Anything you wait to cook when the weather changes?

[Warpy]

1. I made a big pot of potato soup last night

and sampled it at midnight, one of the best batches in a long time.

I love it when cooler air blows in and I can stop living out of the freezer. I love it when I can stand to have the stove on and boiling water heating the house again.

[Texasgal]

2. me too!

Ofcourse fall here in central texas is more like high eighties! We'll be back to ninety degrees later this week.

[Warpy]

6. Don't be too sure

There's a rip roaring thunderstorm over us and it's going to be followed by a cold front with some punch to it.

We'll be down in the 70s for high temperatures.

[maddezmom]

3. Not really but I make soups, stews and anything braised when it is cooler with a greater frequency

It might be the first day of fall but my AC is still running like mad. . Oh but I do squash only in the winter...weird in a way.

[alfie]

4. Sweet potato/apple casserole

Sure sign of fall. Can't eat collards until after first frost, but waiting...waiting...

[LaydeeBug]

5. yankee pot roast.

For me, it's the perfect fall dinner.

[grasswire]

7. this time of year, a primal urge for "provisioning" kicks in for me

Maybe it's because my grandmother had to provide for her 6 children over prairie winters in Saskatchewan on the homestead. I can't imagine how she made that happen.

So even though I am able to go to the grocery any time I want to, I am provisioning. Tubs of peach and strawberry freezer jam. Freezer bags full of blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. Jars and jars and jars of two kinds of dill pickles and also bread and butter pickles. Freezer bags full of green tomatoes and tomatillos for enchilada sauce. Sliced rhubarb. Bags of small plums for galettes and jelly later.

Walked to the farmers market this morning (my favorite time of the week) and came back loaded. Heirloom tomatoes, more pickling cukes, skinny striped eggplants, flat-leaf parsley, Spitzenburg apples, Bartlett pears, pluots, more rhubarb, basil, more Sungold tomatoes, and some beautiful late crop strawberries.

This evening a rainstorm is whipping through. The Canada geese are complaining. I'm feeling very blessed. Tomorrow I go to volunteer at the food bank, to help someone else provision. No child hungry.

[ginnyinWI]

8. got a lot of pots dirty today

I made a big pot of applesauce and an apple crisp from our apple trees. That took two hours because of all the cutting and peeling involved.

Cooked up some black-eyed peas for tomorrow's bean burgers, and some chickpeas for tonight's sandwiches (chickpea spread, tomatoes and homemade sprouts). Then I made a leek and kale soup to go with the sandwiches for supper.

I love to make cornbread; we still have one square left from the last pan.

[Lugnut]

9. Soup!

It was very chilly here today. I made a big pot of broccoli and cauliflower au gratin soup.

[eissa]

10. Anything with pumpkin or butternut squash!

Soups, risottos, casseroles, etc. Pumpkin scones are a big hit, and my Pumpkin Bread Pudding with rum sauce is to DIE for (will post recipe when I have a chance.) I just love this time of year!

[msanthrope]

11. I made a root veggie soup of parsnips and tatties and carrots. Yum....nt

[bif]

12. Several cold weather dishes. Chicken Papricasz, spaghetti & meatballs

Baked squash, soups, Jambalaya.