All in Autumn Recipes

Easy Baked Mac and Cheese with Ham and Hidden Vegetables

Easy Baked Mac and Cheese with Ham and Hidden Vegetables

Richelle Fortin
Autumn Recipes, Comfort Food, Crowd Pleasers, Family Time, Traditional Recipes, Comfort food, Crowd Recipes

This is the mac and cheese in our family.

It’s the one my kids grew up on, the one they still text me about, and the one that somehow feeds everyone — even when I stretch it with vegetables they don’t even notice.

It’s not fancy. It’s flexible. And it’s the kind of recipe that saves you on busy nights, especially when you’ve got a house full of kids (or grandkids!).

Pain à la citrouille à l’huile d’olive, épices & sucre perlé

Pain à la citrouille à l’huile d’olive, épices & sucre perlé

Richelle Fortin
Autumn Recipes, Baking, Brunch, Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Crowd Pleasers, Fall Recipes, Homemade, Pumpkin

There’s something grounding about baking with pumpkin when the days start to cool. This deeply spiced pumpkin bread is rich, tender, and generously scented with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Finished with a crackly crown of pearl sugar and served with salted maple butter, it’s the kind of loaf that feels equally right on a fall brunch table, tucked into a lunchbox, or sliced thick with a cup of afternoon coffee.

Spiced Pumpkin Bread with Pearl Sugar & Salted Maple Butter

Spiced Pumpkin Bread with Pearl Sugar & Salted Maple Butter

Richelle Fortin
Autumn Recipes, Baking, Brunch, Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Crowd Pleasers, Fall Recipes, Homemade, Pumpkin

There’s something grounding about baking with pumpkin when the days start to cool. This deeply spiced pumpkin bread is rich, tender, and generously scented with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Finished with a crackly crown of pearl sugar and served with salted maple butter, it’s the kind of loaf that feels equally right on a fall brunch table, tucked into a lunchbox, or sliced thick with a cup of afternoon coffee.

Pumpkin Pie: Not Just for the Holidays!

Pumpkin Pie: Not Just for the Holidays!

Richelle Fortin
Autumn Recipes, Baking, Comfort Food, Crowd Pleasers, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Holidays, Thanksgiving make-ahead, Thanksgiving

Pumpkin pie is a classic seasonal treat, this recipe is coming out just before Thanksgiving but why limit it to just the fall and winter months? With homemade pumpkin purée that’s easy to make and freezes beautifully, you can enjoy the cozy flavors of pumpkin pie all year long—no canned pumpkin needed!

Butter Biscuits & Dumplings

Butter Biscuits & Dumplings

Richelle Fortin
Autumn Recipes, Breads, One Pot Meal, Biscuits

I have used this recipe so often, the pages have come out of the cookbook, this cookbook is Betty Crocker’s Cookbook! I favor many recipes in this book, though most I have changed over the years.

What is happening is the more comfortable I am getting in the kitchen, the less I use recipes, even when it comes to baking. I asked my daughter in law Jenny if this was because I was getting good at baking, of if it just means I am lazy, she says it’s because I am good! So I am taking her word for it.