Kitchen tools
Free calculators for the planning part of cooking.
Free calculators for the planning part of cooking.
Nine sections, one for every kind of fall appetite.
Recipes gathered by occasion and appetite, not just by craving.
A short guide to getting the most out of the season, and this site.
The highest-leverage move in fall cooking is making a little extra on purpose. Grill extra pork tenderloin kabobs and they become Thai peanut fried rice. Simmer a big pot of five-ingredient chili and the leftovers become loaded baked potatoes. The meal planner pairs all of this automatically and merges the shopping list.
Fall is slow cooker weather. Meatball soup, clam chowder, balsamic pot roast, and whole baked apples all run on the same formula: five to twenty minutes of prep in the morning, dinner waiting when you get home. Every recipe page has a stepper that rescales ingredients to your exact headcount.
Cabbage is the best value in the produce aisle. It keeps for weeks in the fridge, costs a few dollars a head, and turns into bacon-cabbage noodles, slaw, stir-fries, and soup. One head, four dinners.
Run the week's list through the cost calculator before you leave. Knowing the per-serving cost of a meal is the difference between a grocery budget and a grocery guess.
You do not need much. A slow cooker, two half-sheet pans, a cast iron skillet, a Dutch oven, an immersion blender, and a good thermometer cover nearly everything on this site.
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