The last few days have especially felt like a foreshadowing wave of falls arrival. Not only in the outdoor changes, but in my own activities as well. Homemade pumpkin muffins, picking apples, slower cooker soups, and early sunsets: Need I say more? I’ll keep that rhetorical 
As much as I’ll miss the long and carefree days of summer, as well as the super sweet and colorful bounty that comes with it, bring on Fall! This weekend definitely showed me what I’m in for.
Shorter days
Baking homemade pumpkin- zucchini muffins. Yes, they were beyond amazing. Yay for canned pumpkin now being available and affordable!
I also got around to doing one of my favorite events of the fall season….
How do you like den apples?!?
Picking sweet and juicy apples. My neighbor has a hugeeeeeeee apple tree and kindly offered as many apples as I want. As an apple enthusiast, how could I decline?
Enter, homemade cinnamon applesauce. Sans sugar or anything added but lots of love and cinnamon.
I used Susan’s method for making the applesauce, but it really couldn’t get any easier than simmering apples till soft and mushy and adding lotssssss of cinnamon
Meanwhile, I’ve gotten around to using my first winter squash in a beautiful and delicious fall- type meal:
Baked acorn squash stuffed with lentils, leeks, garlic, carrots, celery, walnuts and fresh sage accompanied by maple- garlic greens with pumpkin seeds.
Not only can I see and feel fall outdoors, but I can taste it too. This meal being a perfect example.
Dusting off the slow cooker….
Lentil root vegetable soup with red potatoes, leeks, fennel, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, kale, lentils, sage and bay leaves.
Hello, “super yummy- I just through everything in a pot and it tastes like I actually worked hard, kind of meal”.
Fresh mint sun tea, toasted seed bread, and a comforting and hearty soup made a divine family meal.
Fall, I welcome you with open arms and can’t wait to relish what you have to offer. The transition from fall to summer is indeed bittersweet, especially to us foodies, but necessary.
Bring on Fall!
Who’s with me: Is everyone else ready for falls incoming as well or are you still loving on summer?
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*I apologize, once again, for my sporadic posts. School has been beyond crazy recently and I knew what I didn’t quiet know what I was in for. The free time that I do have is spent doing school work and somewhere in there I try to find time to blog as it’s what I love. Please continue to bare with me through this stressful school time and know that I can’t always post as much I want to.
XOXO
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I can’t believe summer is already nearing an end! Where did it go?! Summer has been awesome but I’m totally embracing the arrival of fall as well. Getting more grounded, slowing down and making lots of yummy fall time meals. All of your fall time treats look lovely. I can’t wait to see more of it as fall comes into full swing!
I am sitting in the corner, grasping onto the last tendrils of summer. Which I mean I am eating all the watermelon and berries I can handle. Fall can wait a couple more weeks
Like, Oct1? Or can there be a little more Indian summer?
Though I do like the image of homemade apple sauce. I remember making it once long ago in 6th grade(our teacher was cool like that). Chunky apple sauce so perfect and yum. Thanks for bringing that memory back. ^_^ .
Mmmm….oh how I love “super yummy- I just through everything in a pot and it tastes like I actually worked hard, kind of meal” meals, lol! Everything you’ve posted here looks divine…and that apple sauce photo makes me want to eat it off the page! It looks like healthy apple pie filling…delicious! And I am sooo excited for it to be winter squash time – they are my absolute favourites, and most loved autumn/winter vegetable! <3 I love your posts whenever they come, hun, no need to feel bad for being busy! You're doing awesome!
xyx
First off, can we just acknowledge the awesomeness of your tablecloth? It makes your meals look so exotic!
second, yay fall! I love fall foods- squash is top on my list always. We have the most ridiculous squash pile in my kitchen (see my latest post for a photo) that is waiting for me to delve into it and I just cracked open a can of pumpkin.
We’ve always made homemade applesauce and pear sauce! Ours was pureed but I love it better with the peel left in!
Ooh! Love the sound of that applesauce!!
I don’t usually enjoy apple sauce all that much, but yours looks perfect and not overly mushy. I love how winter squash, especially kabocha, is becoming available but I am still holding out on an Indian summer in the bay area this year and a warm weather for a little while longer!
I am SOOOOOOO excited for autumn! Pumpkin, squash, more squash, more pumpkin, yay! Speaking of squash, that stuffed acorn squash looks delish!
I am ready for the fall weather! Also, I don’t know if you know this already or not, but if you used R.I Greening or Yellow Imperial apples they would make for better sauces since they break down easily. Just some fun facts that I thought I should share.
Good to know, don’t totally know the type of apples since they’re off my neighbors tree who knows nothing about them, just that she needs to get rid of them
But super interesting fact and now I can say I learned something new today!
Oh i love baked stuffed veggies. Your acorn squash makes me so jealous- i am in india right now and dont have an oven.. now i am just improvising: Boiling peppers on low heat and stuffing them with randomness
That still does the trick, in fact, I love cooking peppers that way! Check out my broiled stuffed peppers, one of my fav and quick dishes: http://www.namastegurl.com/oh-my-peppers/
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