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.

 

[maki2]

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............

Sounds like Pirate Camp is going to be having a lot of pot luck gatherings this year!

 

[vanbrat]

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?

So my applesauce is slow cooked in the crock pot or on the stove top or microwave (though not as good in the microwave In my opinion), so is the soup. If we are out and about I only make enough for maybe 2 meals at a time. And only if we are someplace with power to chill things in my portable tiny fridge thingy. This would NOT be an everyday thing.
It is hard sometimes to get things from a huge recipe to just a small one but sometimes ya just want something slow and low cooked. Fall does that to me. Ok so everything does cooking cravings for me. Apple sauce is easy. Just quarter up 2-3 apples and simmer them in a pot until soft with just a 1/2 inch or so water. Press them through a strainer to remove the peelings and cores after they cook. Just enough fresh made sauce for 2. Add sugar if you have tart apples, cinnamon if you want that. Really good over the oatmeal and makes the world smell sooooo good. In my opinion bisbee's make the best pink applesauce. But so does a good fuji.
Soup is a bit harder. I often have my little crock pot with me and again if we are somewhere that has power I can do this and have enough for 2 days because of my fridge/freezer thingy. It has no meat or dairy or fats so it keeps a tiny bit better. I add those for serving. half of a small butternut squash cubed and 1 small potato and 1 small carrot and some onion and garlic and finely chopped celery add enough veg stock to make it as soupy as You like let it cook until everything is nice and soft. The smaller things are chopped the faster they cook but the slower they cook the more the flavor in my opinion. I also carry an emulsifier and use that to blend it smooth, but it can be pressed through a strainer to make smooth. I like it to have a bit of chili, but some like it sweeter with other spices. I like mine with sour cream and sliced grilled Kielbasa on top. If you have a way, grilled cheese sandwiches are good with it.

 

[vanbrat]

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.

It is soo good I do this sometimes too.

 

[vanbrat]

So now I have to find some of my pumpkin recipes.... Pumpkin muffins pumpkin pancakes, (Moms fav). pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup. Wait, first I gotta eat the butternut soup. I have heard of pumpkin butter like apple butter but I don't have that many pumpkins.

 

[WanderingRose]

I make an old fashioned pumpkin bread, too, using half whole wheat flour, with raisins and walnuts in it.

Smells wonderful baking. Nothing quite like cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.

 

[vanbrat]

Something I have not had in a while and Mom just asked for it. Cinnamon toast. I used to love this stuff. Warm and buttery, smells so good and super easy to make. Why have I not been making this for sooooo long. Sometimes simple is best.