Fall goodies

[vanbrat]

I am making my first fall pot of soup. My Son is around trying to help me get stuff done with Mom and we all were talking about fall goodies. And the thing I have been wanting was butternut squash soup. Hubby wants applesauce cake. Son wants the soup with kielbasa sausage. Mom wants cornbread and honey. Sooooo guess what we are having for dinner and my place smells soooo good right now. I am freezing at least half of everything (except cornbread0 for the trip out..... As soon as mom is settled someplace.

What is your go to fall foods?

 

[maki2]

What is your go to fall foods?

I bought a mini pecan pie from Walmart as my Halloween night treat
Safeway sells pre roasted Turkey breast meat in their deli department. They fresh roast those Turkey breast in the stores also with the roasted whole chickens. Something good to remember if you get a craving for a Turkey sandwich at your camp at Thanksgiving time. That is what I buy them for! I much prefer a real Turkey breast to slice up versus those packages of thin sliced Turkey lunch meats.

Quick cooking oatmeal for breakfast is a fall standard. I just bought quick cooking oats and a bag of brown sugar now that it is getting into the 40s in the early morning hours, even around Quartzsite AZ. I can my space up making hot cereal and coffee!

A great many of us nomads do not have ovens or do a lot of slow cooking due to high fuel cost. So things getting posted about are often not meals that are not going to be on the menu list for preparing among the audience of the Van life forum. We also do not typically have large fridges or pantry space. Perhaps there could be a few more post about stove top meals that cook more quickly and do not require a lot of ingredients or create a ton of dirty dishes?

 

[eDJ_]

Back in my school days there was a cafeteria on the UNI campus that offered some unusual fall goodies. Acorn Squash that was cut in half thru the top to bottom to make a boat. In the center there was a ball of sage sausage and this baked in the hollowed out center. This was baked until the sausage was done and overall quite good. Don't know exactly how it was done but if I were in camp I'd make it in my Dutch Oven.

 

[abnorm]

I just received my 7 gallon Crock pot/Turkey roaster from Amazon.....The box is huge....THANKSGIVING TURKEY ! Adjustable from Simmer to 450°

As soon as it turned cool it's SOUP..........Last nite it was Chicken.......Chicken thighs cooked with onions until tender then shredded....... add canned mushrooms and carrots..........Stock and Noodles............

 

[eDJ_]

A fall recipe I've been working on & tweaking is a simple iron skillet Beef Stroganoff meal. You will need to boil some noodles while you are making this recipe to have ready to serve the Stroganoff over. (I use what are called dumpling noodles)

Using a couple of small beef steak cutlets cut into small pieces, flour them in seasoned flour and fry in some oil. I use 1/3 C flour, some salt, pepper, and season-all) Once the meat is fried in the iron skillet remove it to rest and deglaze the pan with some white wine or water. A couple TB works for me.

Then add the water, bouillon, & butter to heat and add the Onion Soup mix and flour, and heat until beginning to thicken. Stir in the sour cream and stir until the gravy thickens but not to a paste like consistency.

1 envelope of Onion Soup mix.
1 cube of beef bouillon or similar flavoring (better than bouillon etc)
1 TB butter or margarine
1 TB all purpose flour
1 1/2 C water

1 C sour cream

Optional: one small can of sliced mushrooms. Use the juice in the can as part of the 1 1/2 C water.

Restore the meat to the gravy mixture and then stir to coat the meat. Cover with a lid and set aside.

In the meanwhile have boiled noodles to plate and spoon the Stroganoff mixture over the noodles.

This is about what the plate will look like:

 

[WanderingRose]

I’m not a big fan of pumpkin pie, but I do love what I call Pumpkin Pudding.

Mix up pumpkin pie filling, per the recipe on the Libby’s can, substituting brown sugar for all or part of the white and adding an extra egg.

Bake in a casserole dish til done.

Serve warm with a little whipped cream on top.

And, it’s a yellow vegetable.