34 Recipes Using Fall's Best Ingredients

Get some inspiration on how to use the best ingredients from fall to create some amazing food with these recipes.

A collage containing pictures of apple cobbler, a spaghetti squash filled with ground meat, a plate of Brussels sprouts, and a bowl of pear applesauce.

I cannot express my love for fall enough. The weather, the colors, and of course the food. I love the some of the best ingredients to work with are available each fall: apples,, pears, squash, sweet potatoes. pumpkins, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. All of these are in season in the fall and are at their peak.

In this post you will find my favorite fall recipes from the blog that you are not going to want to miss making.

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🍎 Apples
🍐 Pears
🌰 Squash
🎃 Pumpkin
🟢 Brussels Sprouts
⚪ Cauliflower
🍠 Sweet Potatoes
🔴 Cranberries

🍎 Apples

When it comes to fall ingredients for me it has to start with apples. Sure our stores have apples year round but their is nothing like the selection of apples in the fall. Or getting to pick your very own apples.

Let me share with you some of my favorite apple recipes for the blog you can't miss trying out.

I suggest if you want to make a really pretty apple dessert look like pink or red flesh apples like Pink Pearl, Lucy Glo, Lucy Rose, or Hidden Rose.

🍐 Pears

Pears don't get as much attention as apple do. That's for sure. But a perfectly, ripe juicy pear is a great thing. I don't have a ton of pear recipes on the blog yet, but here are a couple can't miss recipes.

🌰 Squash

Do yourself a favorite and head to a farmer's market or farm itself and see the amazing amount of different types and shapes of squash. It's truly amazing. Each year I like to add more squash recipes to the blog. Here are the top ones I have right now:

🎃 Pumpkin

You can't talk about squash without also talking about pumpkin. Pumpkin are in fact a type of squash. All pumpkins are squash but not all squash are pumpkins.

All of my pumpkin recipes call for fresh pumpkin as I think it not only tastes better than canned, you get the pumpkin seeds to roast well. Don't know how to cook a pumpkin, check out my post on How to Make Pumpkin Puree first.

A blue plate with Brussel sprouts covered in everything seasoning

🟢 Brussels Sprouts

While Brussels Sprouts are available year round, they are the most tasty in the fall. Especially if you can get them after they have experienced a frost. You see Brussels can survive freezing temperatures to a point. If they get touched with just a bit of frost, it causes them to sweeten up. It's nature's anti-freeze!

⚪ Cauliflower

Cauliflower is yet another vegetable that is available year round. But what I love is getting huge heads of cauliflower from the farmer's market in the fall. I am always attracted to displays of white, yellow, green, and purple heads of cauliflower. If you can use multiple colors of cauliflower it really makes a dish stand out.

🍠 Sweet Potatoes

Grocery stores tend to only offer a couple varieties of sweet potatoes at best. Some just the one. But there are numerous types of sweet potatoes and you can see that on display in the fall just like with the cauliflower.