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Fall

From a cooking perspective, fall, without question, is my favorite season, a time when tomatoes, corn, and other summer favorites still abound at the market while winter squashes and Brussels sprouts begin moving in. Here you will find all of my fall recipes, ranging from roasted delicata squash salad to step-by-step instructions for how to roast a chicken to this favorite smoky vegetarian chili.

Freshly baked Challah on a board.

Holly’s Challah Recipe

The BEST Overnight Brioche Cinnamon Buns

25+ Thanksgiving Side Dishes: Hasselback Potatoes, Sweet Potato Casserole, Glazed Green Beans, Buttermilk Biscuits, Classic Stuffing & More

Just-baked hasselback potato gratin.

Hasselback Potato Gratin (No-Peel, Make Ahead)

A plate of fingerling potatoes.

Crispy Pan-Seared Fingerling Potatoes

Frosted hot cross buns.

Spiced Hot Cross Buns (Overnight or Not)

The best and easiest recipe for rack of lamb. It takes five minutes to prepare. It's foolproof. And if you enjoy gnawing on bones as if they were lollipops, this recipe is for you. Make it. // alexandracooks.com

Easiest Rack of Lamb

slice of sausage, spinach and egg casserole

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Casserole with Spinach

freshly baked currant scones

Lemony Buttermilk Currant Scones

a cast iron skillet with Irish soda bread

Super Simple Irish Soda Bread

A halved loaf of sourdough bread.

Homemade Sourdough Bread, Step by Step

This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively cocoa — no melted chocolate — is incredibly light and moist and stays this way — tasting freshly baked — for days. It's another Ina Garten recipe, one she begged for from a friend, the grandson of Beatty, after taking one bite. // alexandracooks.com

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

A slice of double chocolate cake with black velvet icing.

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing

The custard, a ratio of 1 cup crème fraîche to 1 cup whole milk to 5 eggs, makes Tartine's Swiss chard quiche so fabulous. It's smooth with a slight tang and utterly delicious. // alexandracooks.com

Tartine’s Quiche

Sister Pie's Salted Maple Pie

Sister Pie’s Salted Maple Pie

A bowl of roasted butternut squash soup topped with croutons and fried sage.

Roasted Butternut Squash and Garlic Soup

Two fresh loaves of peasant bread on a cooling rack, and the pyrex bowls they were baked in.

My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make

Spicy, Crispy, Addictive Cheese Sticks

A cast iron skillet filled with baked fontina with rosemary and thyme.

Baked Fontina

Classic Negroni

A gift box filled with rum balls.

Easy, Festive (and Boozy!) Rum Balls Recipe

Slice of butternut squash pie.

Roasted Butternut Squash Pie

One-Bowl Buttermilk Birthday Cake

A pot of vegetables ready to be simmered into broth.

Homemade Vegetable Stock