Fall Foods: A Collection of Yum

I love food in general, let's just throw that out there. I love cooking, I love eating, I love watching the Food Network to learn new tricks, and I especially love flipping through an interesting cookbook for new ideas and pretty pictures.

One of the best parts of fall is the delicious food that I get to cook up for comfort and to complement the amazing weather outside. (HURRAY FOR SWEATER AND SCARF WEATHER!) Even though I like to incorporate new recipes every year, there is definitely an always-delicious list of constants that like to make their appearances year after year.

At this house, the favorite fall recipes include:

-Sweet potato pie (ever since my amazing gal-pal Loretta shared the recipe for hers, I've been obsessed. It's amazing for breakfast as well as dessert.)

-Roasted pumpkin seeds

-"Fry chips-" (potatoes sliced very thinly, laid out on a baking sheet with slices of fresh garlic clove slices, drizzled in oil and sprinkled with good ole S&P and baked until golden. YOU'RE WELCOME.)

-Root vegetable beef stew

-Homemade bread

-Baked curried chicken and onion potatoes (DIVINE and simple.)

-Turkey burgers (to prepare us for the real thing)

-Roast turkey (to make the turkey burgers feel like shit about themselves)

-Caramel apples (easier to make than you'd think)

-Anything involving caramel and apples, really. Pie, mini pies, ciders. Does anybody else remember those too-good-to-be-true Caramel Apple Pops??

-Garlic mashed potatoes

-Candy from the bright orange plastic bucket shaped like a pumpkin that sits out for, um...trick or treaters. And mostly me. (This is another post of its own, seriously. When Halloween gets nearer I am SO doing a post all about Halloween candy.)

Nom nom nom nom. What are your favorite fall foods and drinks? Any easy recipes you wanna share? (I'll give away my curried chicken and onion potatoes recipe in return, in the form of a photo-post.) ;)