Bust out your coziest sweater, turn on the oven, and have yourself a homemade pumpkin spice latte, because today is the first official day of fall. While we look forward to the incredible produce that summer has to offer all winter, it’s really fall that highlights all of summer’s bounty with roasting, hearty soups, and warm spices. Welcome the change of season into your kitchen with these 10 recipes, including a slow cooker chicken enchilada soup, baked apples, and butternut squash pizza.
I’ve had porridge and oatmeal on the brain since starting the Power Breakfast theme on Instagram for September. So many of our followers on Instagram post the most gorgeous photos of big bowls of porridge filled with all kinds of nuts, fruits, and honey. I want them all. This beautiful bowl of coconut and blackberry porridge is the perfect hint of summer with seasonal berries mixed with the warmth we crave in fall.
Today my pear at breakfast was perfect, so very ripe and juicy and sweet-scented. And although a pear is just an ordinary thing, still I felt a little spike of pleasure when I spooned it into my mouth along with some yogurt and honey. There was pleasure, too, that I had this quiet time to notice the pear and the way the morning light was washing into the room where I sat on the floor with my back up against the wall. Without their wooly slippers, my bare feet were getting cold but I stayed there in that moment of pear delight until the whole bowl was licked clean. An ordinary pleasure, a simple moment.
Happy weekend! What are you cooking this weekend? Are you preparing for Rosh Hashanah? Going apple picking? Making stuffed squash? Do tell us, and don’t miss my favorite posts from the past week!
Q: My girlfriend is away for work for the next few months, and I want to send her a care package that includes some baked goods. Any recipes for cookies or quick breads that mail well would be greatly appreciated!
Sent by Sarah Beth
The angle: Your passport to grilled pizza nirvana
Recipes for right now: Sausage and Sweet Pepper Pizza, Pumpkin-Palooza Pizza, Forty Olive & Pimiento Pizza, Clams Casino Pizza, Grilled Pineapple & Pancetta Pizza, Yukon Gold Rush Pizza, Black n’ Blue Steak Pizza
Who would enjoy this book? Anyone who finds themselves in the middle of the Venn diagram of Grill Lovers and Pizza Lovers.
From Apartment Therapy → Shake it Up: 7 Creative New Ways to Lay Subway Tile
Subway tile is gorgeous, but it doesn’t have to always be laid out in the traditional brick pattern. Here are 7 patterns to shake things up!
Bust out your slow cooker, dust off your roasting pans, and start filling your shopping cart with root vegetables. It’s that odd time of year when it’s still hot in places, but cozier food is definitely returning. Try waking up to a berry-banana breakfast smoothie bowl and then move on down to the stuffed-lasagna spaghetti squash or stuffed eggplants for lunch or dinner. After that, learn how to make the perfect roast chicken – you’ll get so many meals for the following week!
We’re all about tiny things here at The Kitchn; we have Tiny Videos, and Tiny Projects, and Tiny Tips. Why? Sometimes it’s better to do one bite-sized thing, than to get discouraged (or stalled out) by a huge project. So we love this idea from a food photographer: the world’s tiniest cookbook, containing recipes for tiny food. How fun is that?
