Its harvest time, and all our favorite veggies and fruits are in season. Think tomatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes, squash, plums and apples. Use up your bumper crop in these recipes.
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Fall Harvest Foods1 / 38. Squash Gratin. This is the fall season in a skillet right here: Two kinds of cool-weather squash (butternut and kabocha) get a cozy blanket of breadcrumbs, parsley and cheesy goodness. … 2 / 38. Baker, Baker Baked Stuffed Apples. … 3 / 38. Sweet Potato Mash. … 4 / 38. Photo: Alice Gao ©
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1 / 38. Squash Gratin. This is the fall season in a skillet right here: Two kinds of cool-weather squash (butternut and kabocha) get a cozy blanket of breadcrumbs, parsley and cheesy goodness. …
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2 / 38. Baker, Baker Baked Stuffed Apples. …
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3 / 38. Sweet Potato Mash. …
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4 / 38. Photo: Alice Gao ©
Its harvest time, and all our favorite veggies and fruits are in season. Think tomatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes, squash, plums and apples. Use up your bumper crop in these recipes.
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Here on the homestead, another sign of the season is our annual harvest dinner. It is summer’s last hurrah, a gathering of close friends for no reason other than celebrating the bounty of August produce.
While Niagara-on-the-Lake was blistering hot – hot enough to really sweeten the peaches we were picking – I’ve noticed I need to grab a flannel shirt when I’m heading out to the garden in the morning and evenings. The changing weather is just one reminder that summer is slipping away.
An outdoor dinner with friends to celebrate the season, in partnership with Beau’s All Natural.
This year was an intimate event again, just eight of us adults – and a pack of kids. We fed them all in advance of our dinner and set them up with board games (older kids), movies (little ones) and an absolute mountain of buttered popcorn. All in all, we managed to pull off a fairly relaxed dinner – until the movie ended, of course.
After appetizers, we moved to the table for the first course. I added peaches to a classic tomato and mozzarella caprese salad, full of basil and thyme, and finished it off with a sprinkling of wild blueberries. I’ll be sharing this recipe very soon here on the blog, as we have tomatoes ripening like crazy around here. It was the ultimate fresh tomato side dish and very simple, too. UPDATE: find the salad recipe HERE.
Harvest Dinner
FAQ
What is a harvest dinner?
What do you serve at a harvest party?
If you offer someone a tasty seasonal drink when they walk in the door, it gives you another opportunity to set the mood for the evening. For the harvest party, I recommend serving Spiked Mulled Cider and a local Pumpkin Beer to kick off the night. Leave the Dishes! After dinner, so many times my guests offer to help with the dishes … no way!
What to eat at a fall harvest dinner party?
With a few bottles of delicious wine, simple dishes that are easy to prepare, and of course great friends, a fall harvest dinner party can feel seasonal and celebratory without being overly stressful or a ton of work! Happy Harvest! These pork chops combine the yummy fall flavors of maple syrup and apples for an easy but delicious autumnal meal.
What to serve for a Harvest Buffet?
Now let’s talk about what to serve for a harvest buffet… soup, of course! Soup is easy to make, filling, feeds a lot of people, and is warming on a crips fall day or evening! To see all the different kinds of soup I have posted you can google “StoneGable soup” and you can pick from lots of my favorite soups.
What is a fall harvest dinner party?
This fall harvest dinner party is an easy but elegant way to celebrate the bounty of the season. One of my favorite times of year to entertain is in the fall. It’s not as casual as the summer, but it’s also not as fancy and involved as the holiday season.