Eating

A light, bright, pungent and crunchy salad to balance heavier, richer Fall dishes. An unusually delicious side dish that delivers huge flavor with very few calories and a very, very low glycemic load for 40 cents per serving.

Surprise your pumpkin: carve it and curry it. It's delicious. Your home will smell like an exotic spice market for hours. Complete your Jack-O-Lantern project with a vegetarian feast for next week's Diwali Festival.

They look great. They smell great. They taste great. Like bite-size pumpkin pies on a stick, only better. A small random sample of adults love them. But only tonight - and the kids - will decide: trick or treat.

Sweet-and-tart fruit filling a flaky, buttery luxury-in-your-mouth homemade pie crust. Definitely sweet enough for dessert. Not too sweet for breakfast. Your kitchen smells like a very good bakery. Your slice costs 75 cents.

This time of year, it's hard to beat a sweet, crisp apple and a hunk of cheddar. Well, this Apple Cheddar Gratin beats it. Now, if a gratin sounds like something you shouldn't try at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Seeing and tasting is believing. Click.

This really has everything the flavor spectrum's got to offer. Excites every taste bud you have. So little effort for so much pleasure. And all your daily Vitamin C and K. With a near-zero Glycemic Load.

A light, bright, satisfying meal with big, deep, intense flavor. Four dollars for two of you, plus leftovers. Tastes like Autumn. Earthy, sweet beets. Nutty farro, the high-protein ancient grain. Don't wait for the leaves to turn. Get your color now.

And Fall's crops. Just-picked acorn squash and just-pulled beets. With "new crop" polenta. A completely satisfying one-plate meal that looks like a successful art project. That's earthy, sweet, soft and luscious.

This is what I want to sip on the first cold-enough-for-hot-soup day of Fall. It's easy. It's mouth-and-soul-warming. It's got exotic flavors and aromas laced through a sweetly familiar, comforting squash soup.

A great example of Slow Food and Fast Cooking. Less than 20 minutes from start-to-table for a luscious dish that looks, smells and tastes like the definition of wholesome. Remarkably flavorful organic spinach and beautiful eggs from the Farmers Market.