How To Become A 5 Star Chef At Home This Fall

With fall officially in full swing, many of us look forward to the delicious treats that come with the season. In this article, you can find four delicious recipes to make yourself—or beg Grandma for—this year.

Pasta and Meatballs with Italian Gravy 

There is nothing better than some fresh meatballs with Italian gravy—aka marinara sauce—and pasta. One of the staples in an Italian household is making Sunday gravy or sauce. Even if you are not Italian, making gravy is a fun way to spend time with your loved ones. 

Some things that you need are ground beef, eggs, bread crumbs, garlic, onions, tomatoes, and so much more. Don’t forget some pots and pans to cook with! 

Click here to read the full recipe! 

Creamy Pumpkin Protein Pasta

Looking for something quick and easy to make for a late night snack? This microwavable pasta recipe is for you! All that is needed is protein pasta, bone broth, pumpkin puree, cream cheese, parmesan, and some seasonings! 

This fall-inspired pasta dish can be cooked in the microwave for an easy and quick meal. 

Click here to see the full recipe!

Pumpkin Roll

What's better than pumpkin cake? A thin sheet of pumpkin cake rolled into a log and stuffed with cream cheese filling! To make a pumpkin roll, you'll need powdered sugar, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, salt, eggs, sugar, pure pumpkin, walnuts, cream cheese, margarine, and vanilla. That list of ingredients is for both the cake and the icing that goes within it. 

A word of advice to anyone who attempts to make a pumpkin roll is to be patient. After you take the cake out of the oven, oftentimes it will crack if you move too soon or too late. Be patient. You'll have to roll a pumpkin roll two different times. The first time is when it's freshly out of the oven while it's still hot. Once it is completely cool, you'll unroll it very carefully without going too fast because you can crack the cake, and then you'll fill it with the icing. 

For step-by-step instructions, click here.

Candied/Carmel/Chocolate Covered Apples

One of the most notable fall time treats is a candied, caramel, or chocolate covered apple. Instead of spending $10 on a measly little apple covered in chocolate, this season you can go to the store to buy a whole bag of apples for $10 and for an additional $10 more you can buy whatever ingredients you need to create a candied, caramel, or chocolate covered apple. 

For candy apples, all you need—outside of apples and popsicle sticks—is sugar, light corn syrup, water, and red food coloring. That's right folks, that classic red candied shell on your apples are in fact dyed red. You'll combine all your ingredients together in a saucepan and melt them. Once done, you'll add the food coloring and then coat your apples. 

For a more detailed explanation, you can follow this recipe here. 

For caramel apples, you can make your own caramel from scratch or get the store-bought caramels, warm it up, and coat your apples. To make caramel from scratch, you’ll need brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, light corn syrup, butter, and vanilla extract. Like in the candied apple recipe, you'll need to warm your ingredients in a saucepan and wait for them to come to a boil to create a caramel.

For a more detailed explanation on how to make your own caramel, follow this recipe. 

Now for the hardest of all three covered apples, the chocolate-covered apple. All you'll need to do for this recipe is melt some chocolate and coat the apple yourself. However, the hard part is deciding what you want to put on the chocolate. Do you want M&M's? Perhaps peanuts? Maybe some sprinkles? Coconut? Or if you dare to be bold, you can take a caramel apple and coat that with chocolate.

For an explanation on how to melt your chocolate and dip your apples, follow this link. 

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With all these delicious recipes at your disposal, which one will you make this fall season?