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Favorite Fall Foods - Cooking in Elaine's Kitchen
I know it's Fall when there are more leaves OFF the trees than there are on. I know it's Fall when I need socks or slippers on my feet when working late at night on the computer at the far end of my 50 year old house. I know it's Fall when it's usually dark out way before I've been able to rustle up dinner for my family. But most of us know it's Fall when pumpkin pie become standard fare at our supermarket bakeries and the sparkling cider, sweetened condensed milk and cranberry sauce suddenly get their own end aisle display.
There's something about favorite Fall foods that just speaks to our hearts as well as our stomachs. It's tradition and celebration and comfort foods all rolled into one spectacular season. Can you tell it's my favorite time of year?
[My COMFORT FOOD MAKEOVERS cookbook is almost available and it covers all the comfort food bases--at least I hope so.]
Many of these Fall foods are favorites merely because they are harvested during the fairly dismal months of Winter produce (like apples, cranberries and Winter squash). Other foods/dishes are beloved Fall foods because we generally only have them around this time of year. It's not like we couldn't eat them year round though, we just don't. It's like we have to be reminded about them in magazines, the holidays, or special displays in the store. I ask you, what's wrong with eating pumpkin pie in July? Why can't we make fudge in February?
It feels like the most natural thing in the world to start craving comfort foods and holiday recipes right about the time pumpkins start growing their own head of hair while drooping on our front porches that first week in November. It's as if we are programmed to desire these treasured Fall foods just as the leaves are programmed to turn colors or fall off their branches. We are seemingly powerless to the magnetic pull of favorite Fall comfort foods.
I say enjoy them while the getting is good--just make them healthier and lighter every chance you get! I'm working on a few Fall-ish recipes for an article for the WebMD Weight Loss Clinic so yesterday I made a light French Apple Tart, apple-cranberry warm cider, whole grain less sugar scotchies cookies, and light cran-raspberry sauce. I'm happy to report they all worked out well! I love when that happens!
Related Topics: Anatomy of a Pomegranate, Light holiday eating
There's something about favorite Fall foods that just speaks to our hearts as well as our stomachs. It's tradition and celebration and comfort foods all rolled into one spectacular season. Can you tell it's my favorite time of year?
[My COMFORT FOOD MAKEOVERS cookbook is almost available and it covers all the comfort food bases--at least I hope so.]
Many of these Fall foods are favorites merely because they are harvested during the fairly dismal months of Winter produce (like apples, cranberries and Winter squash). Other foods/dishes are beloved Fall foods because we generally only have them around this time of year. It's not like we couldn't eat them year round though, we just don't. It's like we have to be reminded about them in magazines, the holidays, or special displays in the store. I ask you, what's wrong with eating pumpkin pie in July? Why can't we make fudge in February?
It feels like the most natural thing in the world to start craving comfort foods and holiday recipes right about the time pumpkins start growing their own head of hair while drooping on our front porches that first week in November. It's as if we are programmed to desire these treasured Fall foods just as the leaves are programmed to turn colors or fall off their branches. We are seemingly powerless to the magnetic pull of favorite Fall comfort foods.
I say enjoy them while the getting is good--just make them healthier and lighter every chance you get! I'm working on a few Fall-ish recipes for an article for the WebMD Weight Loss Clinic so yesterday I made a light French Apple Tart, apple-cranberry warm cider, whole grain less sugar scotchies cookies, and light cran-raspberry sauce. I'm happy to report they all worked out well! I love when that happens!
Related Topics: Anatomy of a Pomegranate, Light holiday eating
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