Eating

This is profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Just 30 seconds of stirring.

Apple-Cheddar-Bacon Bread Pudding. The perfect breakfast for a Slower Fall Saturday or Sunday. Smells as great as it tastes. Turns you whole home into an aromatherapy clinic while it's in the oven. $4. Serves 8 - 12.

The light and lemony dressing is great with the nutty and kinda rich, high-protein whole grain. And that's all terrific with the roasted greens: kale and Brussels sprouts. And all that's made even Better by the slightly salty and deeply flavorful cheese.

Definitely a treat. Light, crisp, delicious. Salty or sweet. Sprinkle a little cinnamon on them and they taste like pumpkin pie. The trick: make them with butternut squash. Works better than pumpkin.

50 cents per serving for a deeply flavorful, sweet and savory dish. Totally satisfying. Your daily Vitamin A requirement and a lot of Vitamin C for 30 calories. Serve it with polenta or farro and make a meal out of it.

Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Cranberries and Quinoa. Waste not, want not. Use all of that pumpkin. Two big servings for $4. Mustard-lemon dressing adds brightness and spice to the mellow sweet pumpkin.

Sweet pumpkin with spicy sausage. A little bit of Romesco sauce for a huge range of deep flavors spreading across your tongue and making the pumpkin and pepperoni seem like old friends. Great on top of bubbling mozzarella. A great $2 pizza.

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. If that sounds like something you shouldn't try to do at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Click. Tasting is believing.

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