I like that we are switching to fall food as much as I'm already noticing a diminishing of the corn and melons at my local market. Soon we'll be overrun by pumpkins.
I love beef stew and have taken to reading Richard Olney, one of those intellectual egghead types who have so influenced people I admire like Laurie Colwin and John Thorne. I must seek his take on Beef Bourguignon. Undoubtedly snooty and indigestible but worth a try. For this, I might buy the wonderful multi-colored carrots at my market next week.
I love Richard’s Olney and his cookbooks. I refer to them when I am looking for classic type recipes.
I also have Edna Lewis’s Southern cookbook done with Scott Peacock-like it a lot.
Fall has arrived here in the South. The leaves are turning and it is lovely to see them. We are doing fall garden planting and my mind has turned to soups, stews etc.