Fall Meal Ideas

Well, our fall meals don’t change much from summer; other than the fact we actually use our oven in the fall.  It’s too hot right now to use it much.  I only use it to make bread now, but not very often.

I am all ears for others’ responses, though.

I also like beef stew, and potato soup.  Love warm-you-up foods in the fall. 

We love country fried steak and fried apples.

I make big batches of soup from scratch using chicken carcass and fresh vegetables, and when the chill starts arriving I make Goulash, Shepherd’s Pie (actually I make cottage pie, because I use ground beef – Shepherd’s Pie is technically made with lamb; I also make casseroles like Chicken Chasseur, and Coq au Vin, which sound fancy but are really simple.  When money is tight, then we eat lots of goulash and Shepherd’s Pie and and beef stews which go a long way.  I use a lot of extra veges and beans etc to make the meat stretch further.  I also like making Wiener Schnizel and Zigeuner Schnizel, two of my German mother’s recipes.  I love the fall and winter, because I love to cook those meals, the house always smells so good when they are all slow cooking.  I also double and triple batches so I can freeze them and have meals ready for emergency days when we had appointments or something.  My husband loves to take the soup and goulash to work for his lunch when we have extra and that makes a nice change for him as well.  I also like to bake apple and blackberry crumble and serve it with hot custard which I get in from England.  For breakfasts we eat a lot of oatmeal and I bake muffins of various sorts, and good old fashioned porridge.  Lunch we usually eat the homemade soup with homemade rolls, or have a sandwich with it, or toasted cheese sandwiches etc.  I try to make all the meals I make economical and buy things in season.  I look forward to see what other people make. 

I have started the “old-fasioned” recipe box.  My recipes are scattered in many different cookbooks (sometimes on a piece of paper tucked into a cookbook),  Files in the file cabinet,  Files on the computer…..So now when I make a family favorite I write the reipe on a 3X5 index card and store it in my alphabetised card box.  There are currently about 5 in there-as I said this is a new project but one that I enjoy doing.  Hopefully by next year I will have everything in one place!  My dd is very excited about this because I told her that some day this would be hers so that she could make the dishes that she loved growing up!

For me fall means get out the crock pot and the soup pot.  Turn on the oven for casseroles, and also prepare simmering meals on the stove such as Salsbury Steaks or smothered Chicken.

Leigh Ann

Heather, I have used emealz and LOVE IT!!!  The meals are simple and good.  It is so easy and organized.  I did it for several months.  When I pulled the menu’s up on the site I saved them to my computer so now I can still use them.  The prices may be a little different but the recipies, menu, and grocery list make for an easy last minute week of meals.  Totally worth the money.

Amy

oops that’s http://www.menus4moms.com

We are a crockpot family also.  We love anything we can put in there from our overnight oatmeal to our dinner and leaving leftovers in there for lunch the next day!  We love stuffed green pepers, chili, coconut chicken, chicken noodle soup, roast/potatos & vegi, and goulash.  As for the oven a couple fav”s here are enchilada pie, zesty italian cassarole, and pizza .  Don’t have any great websites to offer, just from cookbooks and friends.