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Celebrate Sukkot, and Fall, With Lively Vegetable Dishes

by: Valerio Farris

October 2, 2017

In early October, Jewish families gather under verdant, vine-dappled, temporary wooden structures (sukkahs) to welcome fall’s cool breath. In its shade, they dine, drink, share stories, and rejoice in the bounty of another fall harvest.

While the concept of harvest, as we knew it in Biblical times, is more than a bit antiquated—what with our ability to enjoy pineapples and watermelons during even the bitterest of winters—the sentiment continues to ring romantic. As the year’s most sweltering of seasons comes to an official close, we check in and give thanks and celebrate the arrival of another crop. This year’s Sukkot celebrations begin on October 4 and will continue through the 11.

So regardless of whether or not you plan to erect a sukkah, or eat in it, or even celebrate Sukkot at all, fall is here, and with it comes a bevy of new options for the table. Try some of the recipes below to celebrate Sukkot, and fall’s bounty, any way you like.

Squash it to Me

Roasted Delicata Squash with Spicy Yogurt Dressing and Pomegranate

ABC Kitchen’s Butternut Squash on Toast

Roasted Delicata Squash Stuffed with Autumn Farro

Baked Quinoa with Roasted Butternut Squash & Gruyère Casserole

Root-Imentary Recipes

Autumn Root Vegetable Gratin with Herbs and Cheese With No Cream

Jerry Traunfeld's Root Ribbons with Sage

Rustic Beet Tart and Wilted Greens

Toasted Farro Salad with Roasted Leeks and Root Vegetables

Autumn Soup-er Hero

Roasted Cauliflower Soup with Chimichurri and Poblano Creme Fraiche

Melissa Clark's Seared Broccoli & Potato Soup

Beans and Greens Soup

Curried Chickpea and Red Lentil Soup

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Valerio is a freelance food writer, editor, researcher and cook. He grew up in his parent's Italian restaurants covered in pizza flour and drinking a Shirley Temple a day. Since, he's worked as a cheesemonger in New York City and a paella instructor in Barcelona. He now lives in Berlin, Germany where he's most likely to be found eating shawarma.

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Cheri L. October 4, 2017

They are the feasts of Yah (God) not the feasts of the jews. Jews are only 1 tribe if 12
Leviticus 23:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of YAH, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are MY feasts.