47 Cozy Fall Recipes From a Farmhouse Kitchen
Inside: a collection for autumn, when suddenly the oven feels like a friend again. Soups and roasts and warm spices that make the house feel right when the leaves start turning. Bookmark this and cook your way through.
Rotisserie Chicken with Crispy Skin
Rotisserie chicken at home, with skin that crackles…no rotisserie required. After you eat it, make stock!!
Dutch Oven French Bread
Bakes in a Dutch oven with a crust that shatters when you cut it. This is the bread I make when soup is on, and I want the house to smell like a bakery for an afternoon.
White Bean & Sausage Soup
Sausage, kale, and white beans in a creamy broth. The copycat version of the soup everyone orders, only better because you made it. One pot, on the table in under an hour.
Apple Crumble Pie
Apple pie but with a buttery brown sugar crumble on top instead of a second crust, which is easier and arguably better.
Stuffed Acorn Squash
Acorn squash halves stuffed with sausage and rice, baked until the edges caramelize. Looks like something picky eaters won’t like, but they will! Delicious.
Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
Real pumpkin, real spice, and a thick layer of cream cheese frosting. This is the one that really, really, REALLY feels like fall to me.
Pumpkin Ravioli
Hand-rolled pumpkin ravioli in brown butter and sage. A recipe for a Saturday afternoon when you actually want to spend time in the kitchen.
Corn and Potato Chowder
Sweet corn and potatoes and just enough bacon to make it feel like a treat. I love to add an ear or two worth of fresh corn if I have it.
Chili Cornbread Casserole
A pot of chili with cornbread baked right on top so you get both textures in the same spoonful. Feeds a big table cheaply.
Slow Cooker Pork Roast
Pork shoulder, herbs, a strip of lemon zest, and the crockpot on low while you go about your Saturday. The lemon keeps it from feeling heavy. Absolutely perfect over mashed potatoes.
Pork Chops with Cinnamon Apples
Pork chops and cinnamon apples cooked together until the apples fall apart into something like sauce. It’s sweet and spiced but still savory.
White Chicken Chili
White beans, green chiles, shredded chicken, and plenty of cream. I like it better than red chili when the weather first turns because it feels a little lighter, but it still fills you up.
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Cream
Brussels sprouts in cast iron with bacon and a splash of cream, roasted hard until the outsides are almost black. This is the side dish that converts the sprouts skeptics..
Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore
Bone-in chicken slow-simmered with tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms. Serve it over pasta or polenta and don’t apologize for using the crockpot.
Chicken and Biscuits Casserole
Everything I love about chicken pot pie without the crust drama, because the biscuits go right on top and bake up golden.
Cheese + Sausage Lasagna
No ricotta, three cheeses, and Italian sausage. I always double the recipe and freeze one. So should you.
Skillet Mac and Cheese
Made in the skillet it bakes in, which means the crust on top gets those brown, crispy edges everyone fights over. The perfect side dish for company but also can be the main dish.
Crockpot Potato Soup
Frozen hashbrowns and a slow cooker, and by dinnertime you have loaded baked potato soup without ever turning on the oven. Set it up before school pickup and come home to a house that smells like a diner.
French Onion Soup
Onions cooked down for the better part of an hour, homemade stock, bread and Gruyère broiled on top. The real version, worth every minute. Make it on a rainy afternoon when you have nowhere to be.
Mashed Potatoes
Cream cheese, butter, and plenty of both. We love this recipe and could make it every week until the end of time.
Candied Sweet Potatoes
The old-fashioned kind with brown sugar and butter and marshmallows.
White Cheddar Scalloped Potatoes
Layers of thin-sliced potatoes and sharp white cheddar, baked slow so the top gets brown and the middle is creamy.
Buttery Herbed Stuffing
Sourdough (or any crusty bread) torn into big pieces, plenty of butter, sage, and thyme.
Sourdough Cornbread
Moist, easy to make, and just enough sweetness. If you’re making chili, it’s a must. If you’re wishing you made bread for dinner but you’re out of time, it’s also a must.
Sourdough Bread with Gruyere and Caramelized Onions
Caramelized onions folded into sourdough with gruyere on top. Basically French onion soup in bread form. Slice it thick and use it for sandwiches or serve with dinner.
Old-Fashioned Yeast Rolls
Soft, pillowy rolls that pull apart. Use any leftovers for slider sandwiches the next day.
Crockpot Ham and Bean Soup
A ham bone, a bag of beans, and the slow cooker doing all the work. This makes a TON, so I tend to make it before we have house guests so they can have it for lunch over a few days.
Apple Spice Cake
Grated apples in the batter and a boiled caramel frosting on top. Every fall flavor stacked into one square.
Roasted Tomato Soup
Roasting the tomatoes first is what makes this taste delicious: deep and a little smoky. Serve with grilled cheese, obviously.
Apple Fritters
Fried apple fritters with a glaze that sets while they cool. This is the closest thing to a cider mill donut you’ll make at home.
Soft Molasses Cookies
Rolled in sugar, cracked on top, soft in the middle. Probably my personal favorite cookie, so I try not to make them too much.
Slow Cooker Baked Ziti
Baked ziti in the slow cooker sounds wrong until you try it and realize the noodles come out perfect and you never boiled water. Easy, easy, easy.
Bread Pudding
Cinnamon and vanilla and a scoop straight from the pan with a splash of cream over the top.
Beef Stew (Pressure Canning Recipe)
If you’re not canning, the stovetop version is the same thing with a shorter timeline and the same deep, herby broth.
Crockpot Fried Apples
Sliced apples with cinnamon and brown sugar in the crockpot, and after a few hours you have a side dish that everyone, even toddlers, wil love.
Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
Butternut squash pureed right into the sauce makes this look and taste like fall.
Cast Iron Skillet Roast Chicken
A whole chicken in a hot cast iron pan is the fastest way I know to make the house smell like a real dinner is happening. The drippings become gravy, and there’s usually enough meat left for soup the next day.
Smothered Chicken
Chicken thighs smothered in onion gravy in a single skillet. This is actually quite easy to make but looks impressive.
Beef Pot Roast With Gravy
Chuck roast in the slow cooker with gravy that comes together from the drippings. This is pot roast the way you remember it being at your grandmother’s.
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup
It comes together on a weeknight without any fuss. If anyone needs a little comforting, this is the recipe you want.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin cheesecake with a real graham crust, made The make-ahead dessert for the first cold-weather gathering.
Short Ribs with Red Wine
Short ribs braised in red wine until they slide off the bone, spooned over mashed potatoes or polenta. This is the dinner for when you want the oven on for three hours.
Pumpkin Chili
Pumpkin puree stirred into the chili pot — you don’t taste pumpkin exactly, you just get something rounder and deeper than usual. A quiet way to work the season into a weeknight staple.
Italian Sausage Pasta
One pot, thirty minutes, sausage and pasta and a little cream. Yummy, simple, and only one pot to wash.
Beef Bourguignon
The full French classic, done at home without any shortcuts. If you’ve ever wanted to spend a Sunday cooking one thing really well, this is the thing.
Pumpkin Muffins
Pumpkin muffins with the crackly sugared tops. One bowl, no mixer, done before the second cup is poured.
Chicken and Dumpling Soup
Fluffy dumplings dropped right into the broth means the whole meal is in one pot. This is the soup for the first truly cold night.
