Fall Cooking — A Working Chef's Guides

The sweet spot between summer salads and winter stews. Winter squash, mushrooms, apples, brassicas — plus chickpeas and ground turkey for the protein side of dinner. Here’s how to cook into the season.

Fall ingredients to cook with

Chickpeas braise into dinner. Ground turkey becomes meatballs and chili. Canned tomatoes carry pasta, soup, and 25-minute braises.

• Chickpeas recipes for fall
• Ground turkey recipes for fall
• Canned tomatoes recipes for fall

Techniques that suit fall cooking

• Sear meat properly in fall
• Deglaze a pan in fall
• Bloom spices in fall
• Properly rest meat in fall
• Build a flavor base mirepoix sofrito trinity in fall

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