Apple

This dessert looks like a cobbler or pie, but it has the texture of a cake. Top it with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

A nice stuffing for poultry or an excellent accompaniment to pork tenderloin or salmon.

This sweetly spiced dish is a nice substitute for sweet potatoes.

Old-fashioned upside-down cake was everywhere last year, modernized with a variety of fruit and spice combinations.

If you don't have individual soufflé dishes, this can be prepared in a 13 x 9-inch glass baking dish, in which case the crisp will need to bake for about 55 minutes.

This quick dessert is like a crustless apple tart. It's a terrific way to use the fruit of the season and a perfect finish for the pork chops

Begin preparing this a day ahead.

This simple apple salad got its name from the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Invented in 1896 not by a chef but by the maître d'hôtel Oscar Tschirky, the Waldorf salad was an instant success. As often happens, many variations evolved—some with raisins, some with chopped nuts. This one has green apples and red seedless grapes.

Arranging the apple slices in a flower petal formation may be work for the cook, but it sure provides luxurious eating for your lucky guests. This pie has an exceptionally crisp bottom crust under a juicy filling of caramelized, cinnamony apples made tangy and glistening with a gilding of apricot preserves. The border is a wreath of leaves cut from the pie crust.

This hearty breakfast dish is served at The Ahwahnee Hotel.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Here's a nice salad for fall and winter; mustard and orange give the great-tasting dressing plenty of zip.