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EARLY AUTUMN Salads, Dressings, Dips and Sauces for Good Autumn Eating Volume 2 | Seasonal Cooking

As the heat retreats, so many vegetables are at their best in Early Autumn. Salads are still very much at the fore of our kitchen fare. As the heat tempers and the gardens once gain flourish, a slow Autumn rhythm begins to emerge. This is Volume 2 of our Early Autumn Salads – Salads are excellent in Autumn – browse Volume 1 as well.

Enjoy our Salad Inspiration for Early Autumn.

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LATE AUTUMN – Don’t Miss These Delicious Dishes | Seasonal Cooking

Enjoy these highlights from our Late Autumn classic recipes.

Celebrating Autumn

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MID AUTUMN – Don’t Miss These Recipes for Relaxed Autumn Living | Seasonal Cooking

Celebrating Autumn

The weather begins its transition this month, and like all change, is a little chaotic and changeable. Autumn is the time for crisp leaves, knitted sweaters, and comfort food. Windy, stormy at times, the Autumn rains come. Cooler days intersperse the fewer warmer ones, and while it is hard to let go of cooling foods, dishes get somewhat heavier and more warming. We grieve the passing of Summer but look forward to what Winter brings.

Enjoy these highlights from our Mid Autumn recipe collection.

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EARLY AUTUMN – Don’t Miss These Recipes for Easy Autumn Living | Seasonal Cooking

It’s Autumn! The intensity of the Summer heat begins to moderate. The Sun is lower in the sky and the light quality begins to change. Shadows lengthen, and we begin looking for slightly heavier dishes. It is hard to let go of Summer, so Salads and other lighter dishes still feature strongly. Enjoy these highlights from our Early Autumn recipe collection.

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EARLY SPRING – Don’t Miss These Recipes for Relaxed Spring Living | Seasonal Cooking

Enjoy these highlights from our Early Spring recipe collection. The weather begins its transition this month, and like all change, is a little chaotic and changeable. Windy, stormy at times, and the Spring rains begin. Warm days interject the cooler ones, and while warming foods are still needed, they get lighter and lighter. We look forward to Summer.

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A Collection of 30 Salads for Mid Autumn

Mid Autumn is that last hurrah to Summer, at least here in Adelaide. We have the last of the warm weather, nights are cooler and mornings bordering on cold. Days can be warm and sunny, but April rains are also expected. Farmers turn hopeful eyes skyward, keen to ensure the seeding efforts won’t go to waste.

Early on in this month, we find ourselves eating lots of tomato salads, almost as though we are desperate to hang onto the warm weather, and onto the tomatoes which are always best after the intense heat of Summer has gone and the gentler days of Autumn arrive. French style, Italian style, Greek style, Persian style, we don’t really mind, as long as the salads are simple and the tomatoes delicious. We recommend you do the same. Simple lunches can be a bowl of salad, some flatbread, perhaps some cheese, followed by slices of fresh fruit.

Burnt Aubergine with Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers and Red Onion

Green Papaya, Snake Bean and Tomato Salad

The fig season is over, and okra is off the menu until the new crop comes in. Meanwhile, beautiful vegetables and fruits are appearing in the shops – daikon, cauliflower, pears, oranges, new carrots, such beautiful beetroot, juicy radishes. All ready for delicious salads. Lentils and Dried Beans begin to make an appearance later in the month as we look for more substance in our salads to counteract the cold weather.

Here are 30 of our best salads for Mid Autumn.

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A Collection of 20 Soups for Mid Autumn | Seasonal Cooking

The weather suddenly turns cold around the middle of Mid Autumn, whether that is April in the Southern Hemisphere or October in the Northern Hemisphere. Rain sets in heating is turned on, jackets and raincoats come out of the closet. Scarves, gloves and hats are at the ready.

In the kitchen, citrus fruit is beginning to ripen, root vegetables take pride of place, and lentils and beans begin to appear on the table again. We bake, because the oven warms the kitchen. And hot soups and broths again appear, to bubble away on the stove top.

Enjoy our 20 Soup Suggestions for this month that heralds the colder weather to come.

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