Apples and pot pies and stews and chili and football parties with beer! I have been yearning for fall.

Apple pie and cider!!! Its so cliche "fall" but oh man are they good. Where I live (just outside Detroit) next weekend is a local apple pie festival and a senior living club makes 3000 of the most amazing apple pie to sell. Im so excited! We wait all year for that magic pie!

Apples! I live in CT and we go apple-picking each fall. Also, the orchard we go to makes apple cider donuts that are nothing short of sublime.

I'm also looking forward to other comforting, cold-weather food like beef stew, pumpkin and squash anything, cranberries, soup... I love fall!

Emily-A friend of mine told me that we MUST try cider donuts...can you give me the name of the orchard you go to? I live in Mass.

I love the slow cooker meals, stews, soups, anything apple or pumpkin-y....I just ADORE fall!!!!

Indeed, you MUST try them. We go to Bushy Hill Orchard (www.bushyhill.com), in Granby, CT, very close to the Massachusetts border (the Pioneer Valley area).

While I adore pumpkin, butternut squash and apples (especially since there's a great mountain community, Julian, that's famous for its pies and orchards), I have to admit that I love when persimmons and avocados come into season in Southern California. My grandmother's two persimmon trees get heavy with fruit and we're handing them out to anyone that'll eat them! Thankfully, she also dehydrates the leftover fruit so we can enjoy them all year long.

And, well, avocado goes without saying, especially since San Diego County (where I live) is the biggest producer in the country of the delicious green fruits. Not only do I make guacamole, but also spread it on toast, in sandwiches and in some sweet variations, too. I only wish that I still had access to the avocado tree in the backyard of the house I grew up in!

I'm so excited for hearty soups, roasts, and anything pumpkin (scones, pie, lattes/coffees) ... fall is my favorite season, hands down!

Stews, soups, chili, apples and pie, cranberries, pumpkin bread.
I'll finally turn the oven on again and bake. I love this time of year...I always feel renewed and re-energized.

Another vote for Julian apples here, even though it's a long drive from Orange County.

And pumpkin anything. Pumpkin waffles, pumpkin-chocolate chip cake, pumpkin muffins...

Quince!

Butternut squash for sure and anything and everything pumpkin (bread, soup, pasta, etc.) and apple donuts from Northern California's Apple Hill.

Apples, apples, apples. Crunchy, pale, slightly tart.

*swoon*

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I live for apple cider or pumpkin donuts! I moved to Colorado this year so I'll have to find somewhere that I can get my hands on them!

I look forward to chili, all things apple and squash, soups and hot apple cider :) I'm a sucker for this season and can't wait for the leaves to start to turn.

Quinces, apples, pheasant, chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, um, everything, really. Fall is my favorite season!

Roasts, chili, split pea soup, chicken stew, lentil soup, and everything hearty!
I think I need to move to apple country after reading these comments.

pumpkin scones! soups! red wine! beef stew!

I just got the new issue of Bon Appetit, and now I'm lusting for fall... I can't wait for all the comfort food type dishes... stews and squashes and apple baked goods and mashed potatoes...

Cider donuts, and Great Harvest of Burlington's Apple Cheddar bread! Pumpkin pie is also a quintessential autumn food.

Brussels sprouts all the way!

I was just thinking about this day the other day after having a really mediocre apple. I can't wait for good apples and butternut squash and to be able use them together to make huge batches of soup.

Anything that involves the oven. I think I'll roast a chicken the first day the temperature allows. As for fruit, I'm not quite ready to give up the peaches. It seems like they just arrived!

No fall, please. The garden is just beginning to give produce...lots of Blue Lake beans, Italian beans, yellow squash and italian zucchini. I wait all winter for these. The sweet potatoes and heirloom aren't even ready . I love summer veggies and want to enjoy the warm summer days and produce as long as possible. Don't wish for fall so soon. Summer is too short.

Oysters! It's an R month.

Here in France/Switzerland, you can find game in the grocery stores -- they also sell prepackaged stews made of game.

And the outdoor markets, have the most amazing mushrooms... There are also quinces, and piles of walnuts...

It is a very different type of fall than the typical red, orange and gold New England version; I don't know how to describe it, but it becomes deep, dark and mysterious... Pheasant feathers decorate the market stalls, mists gather over the mountains in the evening, scents become sharper, along with the sunlight.

That is later fall, in November.

Now though, the "vendages" have started, and soon you will be able to drink young barely fermented wine. Unusual grape varieties are appearing in the markets, and wine sales abound.

Everyone has listed some awesome things!!!

Apples
Squash (already have a ton from my dads garden!!! YUM)
PERSIMMONS
Acorns
Walnuts
PUMPKIN ANYTHING

Pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins!!!

My #1 fall favorite is all the great wild mushrooms that appear in the fall: chicken of the woods, maitake, blewitts, elm caps, honey mushrooms, little wild enotakes, etc. I can barely contain myself!

But ditto on the apples, squash, chestnuts, and PUMPKINS that everyone else is excited about as well. And I can't wait for some long simmering stews and getting to bake regularly again.

Oooh, I'm ready for that crisp air right now!

Pretzels. Heartier beer. Oven-roasted vegetables (any), lots of pepper and olive oil. Applesauce muffins. Orange custard pies!

And there'd better be some good Brussels sprouts in this town this year, after the weather killed them all last fall.

Pumpkin freeze - it is seriously delicious, here's my recipe: http://www.kitchenmonki.com/recipe/Pumpkin_Freeze

Fall is by far my favourite season - it is definitely the time of year when I am happiest :) Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday so I'm also looking forward to turkey and my mom's famous mushroom stuffing!

Persimmons!

I'm looking forward to it being beautiful in San Francisco. September and October are usually great here. Food wise, I'm looking forward to roasted pumpkin soup. Stock, bread, and gruyere all layered in a pumpkin and baked. The presentation is pretty spectacular and you can just tear off pieces of the tender pumpkin and eat them along with the soup.

I'm with lona! I'm not quite ready to let summer go yet! Fall only leads to the long cold New England winter (which will be my first after growing up in Texas and living in California).

Hopefully staying busy in the kitchen and cook up some of the wonderful fall (and winter) produce can help me survive the cold! I do love apples, nuts, mushrooms, acorn squash, greens, and sweet potatoes!!

@mschatelaine - When I lived in Prague we enjoyed burcak (Sturm to Austrians) - young fermented wine! Ah I miss it so - I can't find anything comparable stateside!

CORNBREAD!!