158 autumn recipes

This new spin on the delicious squash is perfect for the Autumn season and just in time for Thanksgiving.

Apple pie bread made easy in the bread machine: sweet yeasted loaf flavored with sliced apples, cinnamon, buttermilk, and apple juice concentrate. Fragrant, soft, and tastes like autumn baking in a single slice.

Pasta with pumpkin and Italian sausage in a creamy sage-spiked sauce. A rich, autumn-leaning weeknight dinner that treats canned pumpkin like the flavor workhorse it is.

Soft maple raisin cookies with applesauce, pumpkin pie spice, walnuts, and a fluffy maple buttercream frosting. A spiced drop cookie that tastes like autumn in every bite.

Mushrooms and chestnuts in a light cream sauce with butter, flour, and half-and-half, served over baked potatoes. A rich, earthy autumn side dish with a nutty, woodsy character.

Spiced fruit chutney with pears, apples, cranberries, and currants simmered in apple cider vinegar with ginger, cinnamon, and orange zest. A tart-sweet autumn condiment for cheese, turkey, and pork.

Roast pork loin rubbed with caraway, mustard, and sage, finished under a brown sugar applesauce glaze. The bone-deep Sunday dinner roast that fills the house with autumn smells.

Hearty vegetarian hot pot with pearl barley, root vegetables, mushrooms, and fresh herbs simmered in a savory yeast extract broth. Warming autumn comfort food.

Harvest round bread made in a bread machine with whole wheat flour, oatmeal, carrots, raisins, nuts, honey, and molasses. A hearty, lightly sweet whole grain loaf loaded with autumn flavors.

Lamb Marsala: shoulder chops dredged, browned, and slow-braised in Marsala wine with mushrooms until fork-tender, then served over golden braised winter squash. A rich, cozy autumn twist on chicken marsala.

Whole pears poached in apple cider with vanilla bean and cinnamon sticks, then glazed with a reduced spiced syrup. An elegant, make-ahead autumn dessert.

French chicken soup with apples, leeks, and Calvados in cream-enriched broth. Elegant autumn soup ready in 60 minutes for sophisticated dinners.

Glossy pear slices baked in corn syrup-lemon glaze, crowned with buttery almond crumble. A showpiece autumn dessert for cozy dinner parties.

Pumpkin apricot cake roll, a tender spiced pumpkin sponge rolled around an apricot filling. A stunning autumn dessert that looks harder than it is.

Chicken breasts in cider cream sauce: pan-seared chicken paired with sauteed apple slices in a Dijon-spiked reduced apple cider cream. A bistro-style autumn dinner.

Old-fashioned persimmon cake made with ripe persimmon pulp, shortening, eggs, and a simple flour-and-leavening base. A vintage autumn bake from the Hoosier and Appalachian traditions.