How to Prepare Your Pantry For Fall

Is there anything more inviting than the scents of ginger and cinnamon wafting through a kitchen? Fall is the perfect time to introduce more warming spices into your cooking repertoire–and it doesn’t hurt that they’re good for you, too. Here are a few of our favorite spices to keep stocked up–and ways to incorporate them into your everyday cooking routines. Make sure you have your Evermill rack at the ready!

Ginger – a perfect pie for transitioning from summer to fall, our peach, pistachio, and ginger galette leverages summer fruits like peaches while ushering in fall flavors with a hit of ginger. It’s the perfect September treat.

Cinnamon – our apple fritter doughnuts offer up the perfect, fall-forward spicy mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Ideal for serving when you feel the first chill in the air.

Cumin – this paneer and roasted cauliflower curry is our ideal fall meal. Warming, flavorful, and filling–we find ourselves reaching for this recipe multiple times a week.

As the weather gets colder, rain (and sometimes snow) becomes a fixture in the forecast, and layers are a must, trips to the grocery store become far less simple than they were in the warmer months. That’s why we like to ensure we’ve always got some long-lasting sundries on hand so we can whip up a home-cooked meal even on days when heading out on a shop isn’t in the cards.

Screenshot our checklist for the next time you stock up

• Dried beans & lentils for curry and soup
• Dried mushrooms, for adding flavor and texture to any salad or pasta dish
• Canned beans & canned tuna, for throwing together a protein-packed tuna salad
• Canned pumpkin, for our perfectly autumnal pumpkin muffins–the ideal breakfast, snack, and everything in between
• Marinara sauce, for quick pasta nights
• Nutritional yeast, for a shelf-stable, vegan alternative to cheese
• Nut milk, for curries
• Nuts, both for snacking and to incorporate into vegetable dishes like our roasted cauliflower with hazelnut
• Onions and garlic, for adding flavor to any dish
• Dried pasta

Bone broth is all the rage right now–it’s one of the healthiest things you can. Not to mention: broth makes the perfect base for a ton of recipes, and it’s easy to make whenever you cook something that has bones. Better yet: it keeps in the freezer for ages. We might be biased, but we’re pretty sure our recipe is the best one we’ve ever had.

Beyond the pantry ingredients, there are a few things you can swap out and move forward to account for the seasonal shift. Here’s what we do:

• Give our Dutch oven pride of place, since we spend a ton of time making slow-cooked, big-batch recipes
• Pack our panini press away in favor of cast-iron skillets
• Push mugs forward in our drinkware cabinets
• Store our blenders (but not juicers–we’ll always have our daily green juice)
• Reshuffle our bar carts: we might find ourselves reaching for whisky more frequently than Aperol as the weather gets chillier (though sometimes, we will reach for both!), so we’ll put our most-used bottles front and center