What are your favorite fall flavors?
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As the leaves on the trees transition from green and gold to bright oranges and reds, my cravings shift from ice cream and cold sandwiches to soups and baked goodies. It’s time to fire up the oven instead of the barbecue, and to bake with reckless abandon. Along with the perk of fresh baked bread, cookies, and pumpkin muffins, the house smells delicious and the heat from the oven cozily warms up the place. I especially like to add cloves to my autumn dishes, for that slightly warmer, spicier flavor. Fall cooking combines the delicious with the necessary. Our house isn’t all sugar and carbohydrates, however–I’m also a soup fiend.
There’s nothing that warms the body and soul like a bowl of soup on a chilly day, and I’m a fan of soups from around the world. I make borscht with fresh beets from our community-supported agriculture (CSA) box, which is enough to convert any beet-averse person to come to the purple side. I have my own version of chicken soup, where the secret ingredient isn’t just love, but also liberal amounts of ginger, a jalapeno pepper, and garlic. It comforts the soul, soothes the stomach, and is just what the doctor ordered whether or not you’re feeling under the weather. Just this last weekend, I was at the New York State Sheep and Wool festival, and had the most amazing lamb and barley soup, which I’m hoping to replicate at home.
I’m also experimenting with a recipe for Pho, the Vietnamese beef and noodle soup, but I haven’t quite perfected it yet. I love experimenting with recipes, because when they work out well, it’s amazing, and when my experiments in gastronomy end up to be disasters, they make for great stories. We have a fully stocked take-out menu drawer for just these types of occasions.
What are you cooking this fall season?
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Pumpkin and chocolate together are the BEST!
When it gets cold I want chili.
I love apple cider & pumpkin pie.
I agree with Amy, there is no better fall food than a big, hot bowl of spicy chili!
i love the flavors of leaves crumpled up in hot water
Stew and rice
ice cream yummy
Caramel apples with peanuts! Yummy! They taste much better when bought from an actual candy store or a store that makes their own.
I always appreciate a nice cream soup in the fall.
Here in the Northeast on a very cold rainy or snowy day, one can’t go too wrong with a lunch special from a good Chinese take out restaurant – preferably something spicy like General Tso’s Chicken (only if the place makes it “right”) or Hunan style Beef or Chicken, usually comes with hot soup which is also good on a raw day and steamed or fried rice – and can usually get the lunch specials for around only five bucks.
I enjoy the fall foods. I desire warm vegetable soup, warm apple and pumpkin pie, hot cider, and Thanksgiving-type meals, although I’m a vegetarian so no meat there….
I love the taste & smell of cinnamon
When it gets nippy I like to be heated from the inside out. Mexican food, Indian Food, Jerk anything (Caribbean), Cajun food, North African. If it’s loaded with spices and/or chilis, I’ll cook it and eat it.
I love Apple cider and pumpkin pie. or hot chocolate with cinimon, and of coarse hot cream of patato or brocolli soup! Oatmeal with brown sugar and apple, or Cinimon toast is good.
i try to incorperate pumpkins, apples and cinimon into my meals in the autumn.
When the weather turns cooler, I want soup, chili and I enjoy warming up my kitchen by baking pies and dessert breads!
ackee and salt fish
Mashed butternut squash w/ brown sugar, corn, turkey, chilli, apple pie & pumpkin pies (homemade) Caramel Apples, Hot cider w/ cinnamon (especially that flavor of theraflu liquid shots when you’re sick) nuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, pea soup, bean soup, stew. Roast…all sorts of comfort foods
Mmm.. Jessica I definitely agree! I love to have pumpkin tea in the fall. It warms you up and you have your taste buds going. I also enjoy baking deserts, and eating pumpkin seed. Yum!
Boiled custard!
Apple Cider-HOT!
The same things I like the rest of the year. Why would the season change my preferences in food?
i love cinnamon ..
I love peppermint! Peppermint tea, coffee, chocolate, hot chocolate, cookies, candles, etc.
Mmmmm.
And of course spices like pumpkin and cider.
BAKED APPLES!!
in the morning try a hot coffee bunt cake with hot chocolate. it will sooth the senses
Chai tea with a little triangle shortbread cookie from Whole Foods. The spices in the chai have a very pleasant aroma that reminds me of fall.
I LUVv the idea of roasting marshmellows over a fire dipped with choco-nuts! I crave creamy soups, and beef stews, with the meat all juicy. My favorite dessert? Apple pie, dumplings, crum cake…anything, “apple”, you name it (apples are at their sweetest this time of year, freshly picked from the orchard)
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Oh it’s all about the pumpkin pie!!!! : )
Sweet potato pie! Any pie really, because I love pies and I love making them. : )
Pumpkin, sweet potato. Pumpkin-flavored sweets (especially pie), sweet potatoes as a dinner side dish and for pie.
cinnamon and chocolate
black and blue
couse when I fall thats the colors I turn.
Apple cider && pumpkin pie. Yumm!
Squash, baked Hubbard with tons of butter and brown sugar.
Pickles. Pickled anything , tart and sweet..
Cranberry anything. (My husband makes the best cranberry sauce in the world.)
Raw turnips,
Apples. crispt tart juicy apples.
halloween candy corn.
first tangerines of the season (there are good things about living in Florida!)
creamed cod and creamed peas over potatoes.
Turkey, lots of it all ways.
yum! I just made myself hungry.
my favorite is apple cide
Seaple barry, my family secret
I love things with ginger in them. Spice cake, pumpkin and ginger soup. Yum! In California, a good tortilla soup hits the spot and our colder days (yes, our falls and winters are different than our summers-just not as extreme.) call for hot chocolate and marshmellows . I also enjoy hot buttered rum! It’s got some of those wonderful fall spices in it.
pumpkin and chai tea!
PUMKIN SPICE WITH A HINT OF CINNAMON
good luck getting this combination mid July
in coffee or pie or anywhere
being a vegetarian for 15 years was most difficult in the fall-winter-autum months as the only replacement for spice is sweet
and sweet gets dull on th second bite
Indian Pudding Ice Cream……….. or all around just the spices! cinnemons, gingers, nutmeg, everything seems to have more spice to it in the fall and winter. I guess to make up for the blandness which is the outside world.
A big soul-satisfying bowl of beef stew and homemade raspberry scones to top off the meal.
Eggnog. Pumpkin pie. Tangerines. Glazed ham. Nuts.
I crave pumpkin and most of all Pumpkinseeds. I also crave turkey and dressing it is the best!!! And I can’t forget Tarts!!! YUMMY!!!
hmm Grandmoms homemand chicken noodle soup,she makes tha best,.
It’s gotta be pumpkin pie!
hot coco and marshmallows roasted over the stove to make smores (the suburban way to do marshmallows)
Something not too well-known, but an amazing fall dish, is Butternut Squash Stuffed Ravioli. That with a little french bread and olive oil is a perfect warm family dinner.
Cinnamon sticks, pumpkin spice, hot cocoa, warm apple pie.. yumm!
I know alot of folks are not going to like my answer, but whe fall season comes around so does white tailed deer season. So I must say my favorite flavor for fall is deer meat.
Pumpkin muffins, lattes, pies, and cookies. I love the fall. Except for the allergies and flu.
One of my aunts make the best ice cream! I call it “Pumpkin Ice Cream”. It’s a very simple name. She puts vanilla bean ice cream in a blender and mixes it with eather pumpkin pie (includes crust or not) or pumpkin flavoring. It’s fantastic!!
I love sweet potatoe cassorole!! I look forward to it every thanksgiving!!!!
Fresh pot of white beans, cooked with carrots and celery, and ham., served with some cornbread.
Apple cider and the fall leaves sitting on the back porch. nice
Turnips, turnip greens, pinto, white, or blackeye peas and some cornbread. I love fall foods I guess that is why I weigh so much ha ha
i allways want ice cream in fall but only if i have a warm blanket and a good dvd i allso like to eat toffy apples yum
I love pumpkin pie, mashed butternut squash w/ brown sugar, and fresh bread rolls with butter!
Caramel apples, apple cider with cinnamon donuts, and beef stew are a few of my fall favorites.
Apple cider and cinimon are get for fall. I also love all the Thanskgiving food.
Anything with Pumpkin in it!
I love sweet potatoe cassorole!! I look forward to it every thanksgiving!!!!
cookies and cake!
Pretzals and coke when its nice weather when its cold i prefer getting a fire going and cooking toast and marshmallows and crumpits and all that =)
I love all of the hard winter squash.
Acorn being my favorite.
cinnamon, chocolate, apples, and chili! yummmmm,
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I personally love all things pumpkin…excluding pumpkin pie. I would die for a fresh pumpkin muffin. :]
Pumpkin pie? That’s another story…can’t stand the stuff!
Cinnamon.
The end of summer, leaves dying off the trees and cluttering the yard as well as the cold weather, overcast rainy days and lets not forget shorter days too, all fall makes me want a taste for is prozac.
Although pumpkin pie is a good substitute.
Other signs of fall are concord grapes and pomegrenates
me & my icecrems aleays best 4others company
mine is pumpkin!
It may be an Indiana thing, but fall always brings Persimmon Pudding – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon_pudding. It is a very moist, cake-like dessert that is made from persimmon pulp. It’s similar to pumpkin in texture, but completely different in taste. If you’ve never had it, you’re missing out!
my favorite fall colors are red and orange!!!!!!!!!
I like hearty food like beef filled sandwiches and chilli and stews and Gunbos. I enjoy the heavier beers at this time also, Christmas Ales and Stouts.
Squirrell
definitely the pecan pie and turkey
Snickerdoodles! Or basically anything with cinnamon. I know people say they’re more of a Christmas holiday cookie, but they’re totally a fall food in my mind…
I love good apple cider! I also love soup, but I think that pumpkins weren’t made to be put in some things- though a really good pumpkin muffin is nice.
I like the color blue, because of the cool fall days and its usually sunny blue skies