said_scarlett | Fall Recipes!

Can you tell that Fey's bored yet? ;)

So the fall season is upon us, and that means fall goodies! As everyone knows, I love to bake in the fall and winter. Nothing's better on a cold, crisp day than baked goods fresh from the oven. Not to mention the warm smell of bread and pastries as they bake. And this year I've got an Apple Cranberry Pie recipe I've been dying to try out. I love cranberries, and it's a fairly simple recipe that doesn't take much time. If it comes out any good, I'll post it here. And apples are always a good fall treat. Apple Maple Crumble is especially yummy!

And of course, pumpkins. I love working with pumpkin flavor. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin tarts, and if I were any good at cheese cake, pumpkin spice cheese cake. Maybe I'll give it another try this year. :D I'm sure it won't be too much longer before I break out the beef stew, either. Despite the fact that I live in a desert area, it does get cold in the winter. And I love beef stew. And mashed potatoes! Garlic mashed potatoes slathered in thick, rich gravy....

I'm making myself hungry just writing about it!

So: what are your favorite fall recipes? Be it for desert, main course or appetizer, what's that special food you always look forward to when fall settles in?

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I don't have my Mom's recipe for it in front of me, but: banna bread. I brought for lunch at school for years - and I still like it. Will make some when I get paid and have money to buy baking ingrediants.

Also, hmm, my grandma's biscuits:

2 cups flour
3 tbs butter
2 ts baking powder
1/3 ts salt
3/4 cups milk

Mix together, pour into pound and cut into rounds. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 C degrees.

Ooooh, simple and tasty! I'll have to give those a try. :D

Apple maple crumble sounds yummy. And if you ever want to post the beef stew recipe, I'd love to try it . . . Have yet to find one to swear by.

The recipe I was thinking about making tonight (although I may leave it until I feel a bit better): It's not so much a recipe, really, but phyllo pockets, folded around mushrooms/chicken/celery/carrots/whatever other veggies or spices I have on hand. I sometimes use the recipes for pot pie filling, only with phyllo pastry instead of puff, because I prefer the flakiness. I love it, it keeps pretty well, and it's portable enough to take for work.

It is indeed! I love apples in the fall. Even just roasted apples stuffed with peanut butter and raisins. So good! I shall definitely post my recipe for the stew, though it goes a bit like 'add a half palm-full of bay leaves, and a little bit of sage, and three shakes of salt....' I don't do measurements, because I suck. :D

Oooh, phyllo pastry!

... recipes. Please? *whimpers* those sound soo gooood....

*willhave cranberries of the fresh sort v. soon*

And my favorite? Well, the hunting eason starts soon, and there are very few things I like better then "hirvikäristys" - kinda like venison roast. which, i can't make. NBut my mom can. Will badger a recipe from her and shhare :D

I shall be posting recipes! Fresh cranberries rock.

My one taste of venison I really, really enjoyed.

You know I don't really use recipes for cooking, but I'm a huge fan of mild Italian sausage, cut up mixed baby potatoes, onions (obviously can be left out, for you!), and slices of apple and/or sweet potato, cut up and mixed with various spices (rosemary, fennel, thyme and black pepper, for me), drizzled in olive oil and baked until everything's soft and browned. Damned good dinner, far as I'm concerned.

As for dessert, I think you know how I feel about pumpkin pie. Also, I crave candy corn around this time of year. XD

That sounds really, really good. If you like that, you may want to try sausage apple pie. It's basically sausage, apple pie filling (home-made or canned), and cheddar cheese in a flakey pie crust.

Oooh, candy corn! I love that stuff.

Huh. I would never have thought of putting apple pie filling and cheese in the same thing, but it does sound intriguing... I might have to try it. Or at least the sausage and apple pie without the cheese, because that sounds totally amazing.

I don't know what they flavor that stuff with, but it's wonderful.

Apple and cheese is yummy!

Sugar. Lots and lots of sugar. :D

Er, it's not really bread, more a sort of tea-time cake. Probably best with something other than coffee, though it works well as a dessert with ice-cream.

50g light muscovado or demerera sugar
25g rolled oats
30ml apple or pear juice or squash (I've even used orange and it works fine)
1 large or 2 small pears (I've also used 2-3 plums in this, though it takes longer to cook)
115g self-raising flour
115g sultanas
2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 egg

You need a 1lb loaf tin, lined with greaseproof paper (or whatever you do to make sure it doesn't stick). Preheat oven to gas mark 5 (190 degrees celsius)
mix the sugar, oats and juice together and leave to stand while you prepare the rest. Chop up the pears (or whatever) fairly finely (my cookbook suggests grating them, but I find this just leaves a hideous mess all over the kitchen). Then add the fruit and all the rest of the ingredients to the sugar-oats mixture, and mix it in thouroughly. Pour/scrape mixture into loaf tin, bake for 50 minutes, or until skewers start to come out clean. (It'll take over 1hr for a plum cake. Also, skewers needn't come out perfectly clean; it's very nice when slightly squishy in the middle). And you can eat it warm or cold. Yum.

Oooooh, since I'm a huge plum fan, the idea of making it with plums is really appealing. Thank you!

I realised afterwards that I should have made the trip downstairs to my cookbook (instead of doing it from memory) as then I could have given you the quantities in American instead of European. D'oh!

The plum version is very squidgy inside, but very very lovely.

I wish I had a favourite autumn dish, but the very seasonal dish here is 'Fårikål,' which is mutton and cabbage stew (/Norwegian lamb stew). Alas, I don't eat mutton. ~~We're~~ they're having it tonight. XD

I've never tasted pumpinks and I've probably seen 3 authentic ones in the whole course of my life.

Ah, and I don't eat cabbage! ;)

Pumpkins are only yummy in other things.

http://thanksgiving.allrecipes.com/az/AppleButterSpiceCake.asp

Apple Butter Spice cake, baby!! I'm telling you, this is the best stuff ever. You've got to try it. I'd live on this stuff if I could.

Oooh, that does sound good!

Hmm. Fall recipes - I tend to hit the Cajun spice around that time, gumbos, jambalayas etc. =) But it's actually coming up to summer right now for me, as I'm in the Southern hemisphere!

I do hope you're feeling better. *hugs*

Silly Southern hemisphere! ;) I actually love cajun spices.

zinjadu makes a delicious jamalaya!

Gyoza, my grandmother's recipe. Nothing like hot gyoza from the water when you come in from the cold. Will be attempting to make it soon...

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