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Into the Fall

September 16, 2012 by Joy the Baker 70 Comments

getting ready for fall

I feel like I need to see where I’ve been in order to figure out where I’m going.  I mean that in the most food sense of the phrase.

I need to start thinking about apples instead of peaches, and caramelized onions instead of avocados.  I can get there… I can totally get there with time.

Right now, I just want to hold onto these Indian Summer afternoons and gloriously late sunsets.

Caramelized Mushrooms and Dumplings.  It’s like Chicken Pot Pie without the chicken and with extra mushrooms and biscuits.  It’s savory greatness.

Book Tour Note:  I have a feeling that VERMONT will get me into the mood for the Fall holidays.  I’ll be in Vermont celebrating the King Arthur Grand Opening weekend this coming Saturday, September 22!  I would LOVE to see you!  

Ps.  I hope to be signing books in Boston in early December.  More details to follow!  

getting ready for fall

The combination of orange and chocolate is my go-to December comfort flavor combination.  Chocolate Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake is happy breakfasting.

getting ready for fall

Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding is reminiscent of Nutella and indulgent as all heck!

getting ready for fall

Biscuits are one of the best reasons to turn on your oven.  Mushroom and Onion Buttermilk Biscuits.  It’s time.  It’s time…

getting ready for fall

Look at all this Fall flavor madness.

Geez, I’m just trying to prepare you… because I’m barely prepared myself.

Vegan Pumpkin Walnut Bread.

Dad’s Perfect Sweet Potato Pie.

Honey Cranberry Cornmeal Quickbread

Pear Spice Cake with Walnut Praline Topping.  Maybe I just want to make the Walnut Praline Topping and serve it with a spoon.

getting ready for fall

I feel like these tacos are a bridge between Summer and Winter.  Roasted sweet potatoes are combined with quick picked cabbage, keeping the flavors grounded but bright.  Black Bean and Sweet Potato Tacos.  I can see it now… I’m about to eat these for weeks.

I hope you have the most lovely Sunday night.  I hope there’s good tv and lots of tacos.  Tomorrow:  fried guacamole.  Saturday: VERMONT!

 

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  1. Courtney @ Bake. Eat. Repeat.

    September 16, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Mmmm…I’m torn as well. I love the fall, but I haven’t quite gotten over summer yet. I just made your lemon raspberry breakfast rolls last weekend. They’re the perfect bridge between summer and fall. All the bright sweetness of summer but in a warm, comforting, ooey, gooey package. That was some of the best bun dough ever! Thank you!

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  2. Edita

    September 16, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    I’m a Dartmouth student and my good friend and I had been talking about going to King Arthur Flour, which is just 5 minutes away from school, to take a cooking class forever. Well, finally we did it yesterday and it was beyond amazing! We took fruits of the fall and made an apple, pear, and raspberry pie and a blackberry clafoutis. So much dessert to bring back and share with my housemates. I am now obsessed with the newly remodeled King Arthur Flour and spent an embarrassingly long time in the store lookin at cooking supplies. I can’t wait to see you there!!!

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  3. Chris

    September 16, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    You had me at dumpling!

    *tear*

    Gotta stop reading your blog while hungry *grrowl*

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  4. Kendra

    September 16, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    I just made your Vegan Coconut Carrot soup…it smells like fall in my kitchen today! Thanks for the yumminess and the inspiration.

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    • joythebaker

      September 21, 2012 at 7:53 pm

      i love that soup! so healthful!

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  5. Ange

    September 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    Your cooking/baking looks fabulous and is always inspiring. I especially love that you add some vegan recipes. Would you happen to know the substitute for egg in the biscuits? I know a substitute for buttermilk but I’m not familiar with all the different egg subs…

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  6. The Life of Clare

    September 16, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    That food looks so amazingly good! I’m trying to change my mindset to avocados and salads from stodgy winter food! I’m getting there, ever so slowly!

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  7. Meagan

    September 16, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Wow, these flavors all look so fantastic! Fall is definitely the best time of year for baking & you’ve given me some fabulous ideas! Thanks for sharing!

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  8. Morgan

    September 16, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    I love everything fall. Leaves, cozy nights at home with a mug o’ tea, cookies and a great book and… pumpkin flavoured EVERYTHING! These recipes have definitely got me excited. Now if only this hot weather would go away (so many of my fellow Canadians would be mad if they heard me say that)….. you can’t spend the day at the beach and then go home and eat soup and biscuits. Well, technically you can and I probably will.

    Just an FYI… “Indian Summer” is actually a prejudice term. I know it is very widely used and very few people know the origin or meaning of the phrase but I have a dear friend who is First Nations and after hearing me say the phrase she politely informed me that she finds it offensive and could I please stop saying it. She knew I felt awful and so she sent me an article about where it was derived (as well as list of other words and expressions that are commonly used, few of which I knew were racist until I thought long and hard about it).

    Thanks for sharing your wittiness, humour and beautiful recipes and photos – as always!

    Reply
  9. Noreen Henderson

    September 16, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Wow, I recently discovered the podcast(love it!!) and through that, your blog. The first post I read was about Portland ME, one of my favorite places- though I don’t share the Fore St love, and now you will be in another of my favorite places -KAF! May have to take a ride up.
    Also, ordered your book from Amazon, looking forward to cooking from it.

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    • joythebaker

      September 16, 2012 at 8:51 pm

      good things indeed! hope to see you noreen!

      Reply
  10. Jill (the) Baker

    September 16, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Can’t WAIT til you’re in Boston!! See you in December! I can almost guarantee yummy apple sweet things alongside a hot beverage…

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  11. Margherita

    September 16, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    Fall is my absolute favorite season. It’s so much fun to cook when the weather gets chilly…plus with bikini season officially over I can finally indulge!

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  12. Corrie

    September 16, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    Ahh DELICIOUS!!!! You always make everything look so delicious, easy, and pretty.

    Reply
  13. Melissa D

    September 16, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    SOOOOO EXCITED about seeing you in Vermont next weekend! Totally beside myself.

    And I LOVE fall flavors – pumpkin and cinnamon and squash and breads and soups…when it is cool enough to bake without steaming up my house but still nice enough that I don’t have to shovel snow or wear 10 layers outside, I am one happy me.

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  14. Shannon

    September 16, 2012 at 11:56 am

    I wish you were coming a little closer to Southern Vermont! I’d bring you some maple syrup from my family’s farm!

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  15. Danielle C

    September 16, 2012 at 11:36 am

    You’re going to VERMONT!??!?!? AHHHH!! I just moved away from that amazing state and so wish I could be there to see you!!!!! Please come down to DC when you get a chance! :)

    Reply
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