I love to cook in the fall and winter! When Labor Day rolls around I'm thinking ahead to cocooning and making soups, chilis, etc. Soups and baking My Mom's chicken noodle soup recipe, tweaked a little, is the one I use. We have lots of traditions around cooking in our family -- muffins on the first day of school, bat pie in October (chicken pot pie with cookie cut outs of bats on top). I make applesauce that my kids love so much that they turn up their noses at the jarred stuff. My soups are really good! My kids take their lunches to school and I really pride myself on making creative, healthy lunches. I made the worst apple pie ever a couple of weeks ago. The apples were the consistency of sauce and it was just about inedible.