I'm not ready for the heavier fall food yet, but soup is finally starting to sound good--alongside a nice cool sandwich with plenty of local tomato layered on top. The last summer cold soba meal will be made (with tempura zucchini perhaps?), but I'm also planning to make a risotto now that it's cool enough to make a heartier one (tomato sauce, red beans, peppers).

And green tea cupcakes, by request. We shall see.

I'm making soup to eat for lunch next week (maybe a tortilla soup, or something to use up the tomatoes, peppers and onions from the CSA box), apple muffins, and beef stroganoff. Tomorrow is a friend's wedding, can't wait to see what she has for food!

The "tabbouleh" recipe on the back of the Trader Joes whole wheat couscous box, a pasta sauce that will use up my pepper and onion supply, a big batch of steel cut oats in the slow cooker for eating next week, and probably some kind of bread pudding.

Not much, as Sunday I'm starting the week-long "Hunger Challenge" to mimic what a person on food stamps has to live through: $4 a day for 7 days. So lots of dried beans and rice and 19c Trader Joe's bananas!

We are squeezing out the last bit of summer cooking. BLT's with good, good tomatoes, pasta salad with summer vegetables and red wine vinaigrette and then some perfect barbecue chicken. i also am planning on some molten chocolate and peanut butter cakes.

Bison carbonnade for the freezer.

Kale salad with herb buttermilk dressing

Roast leg of lamb with fresh shell beans and tomatoes provencal

Soup is starting to sound pretty good. Something that will use up one of my recently harvested, slightly damaged, pie pumpkins that isn't likely to last long in storage. Pumpkin, tomatoes, zucchini, some kind of bean....

Some comfort food would be a good thing this weekend, with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

It might be too early for this, but I made the most wonderful French Onion soup last night... the best I've ever had, from SmittenKitchen.com. I loaded it with french bread croutons topped with a mound of mozzarella. Simple ingredients, and wonderful taste! I can see myself eating it all throughout fall and winter... next time I'll have to make a much bigger batch!

Joy the Baker's Vegan Carrot Ginger Coconut Soup and kale chips, Spaghetti Squash with Pomodoro Sauce, hash browns and oatmeal. The weather is definitely cooling down over here.

Arugula and leek fritatta tonight to use up last week's veggies before starting on this week's CSA, whose plentiful tomatoes, peppers, and corn inspired a big pot of chili for the week. And maybe applesauce and/or brownies. We'll see!

It is crazy warm here in southern BC. Well, for us anyway. ;) Greek Salad (almost all the veg from the garden), hummus, and pita bread for dinner tonight.

I'm easing into fall with baked Italian sausage with potatoes, mushrooms and whole garlic cloves tonight. I'm doing a corn & tomato salad with Israeli couscous tomorrow, some roasted green beans... and maybe something sweet? Who knows.

Football Saturday here in the deep South: my first attempt at homemade wings tomorrow, along with fresh raw veggies, spinach dip and pigs in blankets, and a couple of cold bottles of Stella Artois.

It is getting a little chilly in Columbus, but I just made batch of Salty Caramel ice cream. It's never to cool for ice cream.

We've had lots of rain this week here in PA, so I've been trying to use up the last of my garden produce before it all washes or rots away. I put leeks and peppers in my homemade chicken noodle soup, made stuffed zucchini and muffins with the last 2 zucchini and some tomatoes, and had a warm peach crisp for dessert with some late season peaches from a local orchard. Really satisfying during all of this dreary weather!

football food! taco chili dip. :)

Big pot of @ranchogordo beans..Just not sure which ones. And a batch of Jennifer Perrillo's Tomato Jam. Last good tomatoes of the summer, want to hold on a little longer.

Panzanella!

Baked Camembert with boiled potatoes and green salad :)

An Indian-inspired broccoli soup tonight.

Good old fashioned backyard BBQ on Patriot Day! Never forget 9/11!!

ummm that salad in the picture looks amazing. :)

I might make some of my favorites using what's left of my farmer's market haul:Venison feta meatballs over Swiss chard, summer squash, and quinoa. Sweet potato, red onion, and Parmesan tart (I think I will try to make the dough from chickpea and millet flour). Adzuki and great northern beans with caramelized onions, leeks, patty pan squash and some asiago cheese. Shrimp fra diavolo over french lentils with roasted carrots and fingerling potatoes.

@operator, here in NYC, I don't think "good old fashioned bbq" when I think 9/11. Enjoy, but please. Think.

@cmcinnyc, don't stoup to that level. Remembrance is relative. Be glad people keep that day close to their hearts.

Sorry. I work down there and have been dealing w/tourists all week.

Trying out a batch of my sister's Mjadarah recipe for lunch this week. Tonight is a Sausage and kale ragout- super easy and uses only one pot.

End of weekend cooking binge this afternoon/evening: roasted tomato soup w/ garlic and thyme. Applesauce w/ cinnamon and ginger (from the bruised leftovers of last weekend's pick-your-own trip). Sweet corn risotto, with stock made from the cobs. Most of the fruit/veg was local and cheap so I'm feeling really good about it. What a lovely time of year. And what a peaceful feeling to spend a few hours in the kitchen on my own reflecting on today while also doing something that nourishes the body and the soul.

@operator, "Patriot Day"? Really?