Our Fall Baking To-Do List
A few days ago we shared with you all of our favorite recipes for the fall season that we have made and posted to date. There are quite a few of them (150!), but there is still so much more that we can’t wait to make. There are tons of different ways we find inspiration for what we make in the kitchen – cookbooks, magazines, other blogs, family requests, etc. – and for this fall our head is already brimming with ideas. We already have a list in our mind of the recipes we definitely want to tackle over the next few months, and thought it would be fun to share it with you. We'd love to know what your kitchen goals are for the upcoming fall season, as well as any recipes you’d like to request to see here on the site. Enjoy the list!
In no particular order…
Recipes to Make:
1. Maple-Walnut Fudge. We tried to make this over the weekend and failed miserably. We will conquer it.
2. Chicken Noodle Soup. Amazingly, we've never put together an awesome from-scratch recipe. This is near the top of our list.
3. Chicken Tortilla Soup. A regional restaurant, Max & Erma’s, serves an memorable version of this. We love how cheesy and spicy it is; need to make this at home!
4. Serious Chili. We usually make ours with ground beef, but there’s a version we've been dying to try with cubed steak meat, molasses and beer, chiles, and a ton of other great ingredients. Sounds divine.
5. Classic Apple Pie. We need to reliable this fall classic. Look for this soon!
6. Rye Bread. We've tried a few times without much success, but bought a Jewish cookbook a little while ago, which has an authentic recipe, and we can’t wait to try it.
7. Sourdough Bread. We must master it – it’s the reliable bread for warm and cheesy paninis during the cool months!
8. Tomato Soup. Nothing warms the soul like a bowl of hot tomato soup and a reliable grilled cheese sandwich.
9. Focaccia. Because it’s soooo good.
10. Pumpkin Roll. We've never made one. We need to remedy that.
11. Pasta. From-scratch pastas like tortellini and ravioli, and to reliable dishes like lasagna.
12. Butternut Squash Risotto. We fell in love with butternut squash last year, and we can’t wait to try it in risotto.
13. Rice Pudding. We've never even eaten it, yet made it, but we're intrigued by it and need to introduce it to our taste buds.
14. Meatloaf. We want to make an out-of-this-world, melt-in-your-mouth meatloaf. It’s so classic, we want an awesome recipe in our arsenal.
Stuff to Buy:
In addition to recipes to try, there are also a few new kitchen toys we plan on buying…
• Double Sided Pie Toppers from King Arthur Flour
Autumn and…
Lattice
• Pie Crust Shield from King Arthur Flour – Because our pie crusts sometimes get a little too dark.
• Panini Press. We haven’t decided which one we're buying, but we're eyeing up this Cuisinart Griddler.
• Immersion Blender. If we're going to be rocking soups like tomato and tortilla, we think one of these is in order!
So… that’s where we're at in prepping our kitchen for fall. We have a list of recipes to conquer and some new toys to buy. We're looking forward to enjoying batches of soups and stews while cool air pillows through the windows from outside.
How about you? What recipes are you hoping to tackle this season? Any new kitchen gadgets you’re planning to purchase?
