|  | From Arturo Conde, your About Food Editor | | Know Your Harvest Whether you like them fried, baked, or stuffed with oats and brown sugar, the smell of ripe apples evokes the fall season. While this fruit keeps fresh mostly from September through November, many varieties are available at your local supermarket throughout the year. Try these essential apple recipes, including our delicious apple blue cheesecake with bacon. | Red Hot Chili Soups and Stews You can make it with black beans, ground beef and chopped onions. Add Mexican spice, pineapple, cashews or pork. These chili recipes are the heartiest meals that you can get on an early autumn evening. Try our tasty selection of home-cooked chili recipes. | Slow, Oven-Baked Dishes | Savory and Fruit Pies Meat pies may seem like complicated dishes. But here, we will show you how to sauté onions, brown ground beef, and mix the ingredients with vegetables and Marinara sauce, before baking everything in puffy pastry dough. This meat pie takes only 20 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook. | | | | Related Searches | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Food newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2013 About.com | | | | | | Follow us on: | | | | Advertisement | |