Recipes On Deck

I LOVE (let me repeat, LOVE) Fall cooking. The tough part is now living in Los Angeles (when Fall is pretty much still Summer) and still wanting to break out the comforting dishes from my Midwestern roots thinking of the leaves starting to turn back home, the air getting crisp, friends gathering around the TV to root for our favorite football team (Go MSU Spartans!) and apple and pumpkin picking commencing.

As I do each year, I now have a stack of all the September/October issues of my favorite cooking magazines and have lined up a long list of recipes that I'll be cooking for our friends soon regardless of the temperature outside. Let the flavors of roasted meat, cinnamon and cloves, squash and pumpkin pie fill the air!

Here are some recipes you may soon be seeing from me (upon confirmation in my own test kitchen):
1. Candy Apple Pork Tenderloin
2. Roast Stuffed Cornish Hens with Wild Rice Stuffing including Cranberries and Toasted Pecans
3. Coq Au Vin
4. Oven BBQ Spare Ribs
5. Lasagna Bolognese
6. Pasta with Sauteed Mushrooms, Pancetta and Sage
7. Creamed Spinach with Parmesan and and Prosciutto
8. Green Beans with Bacon and Onion
9. Roast Maple Carrots with Browned Butter
10. Cappuccino Semifreddo with Almond Biscotti

Plenty of other tried and true Fall recipes are also on the way. Stay tuned!