This season we welcome the colors and flavors that fall has to offer. From beautiful root vegetables and delicate handcrafted pasta to fresh pastries and spiced beverages, our tastebuds and stomachs are in for a real treat this time of year. Whether your favorite meal is breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert, here are a few local dishes that are sure to satisfy this season’s cravings.
Quickly making its way to the forefront of the food scene in Jackson, fall flavors play a leading role in the current menu at Coelette. Root vegetables like turnip, beet and potato are used in the root hash, a lunch option, that also comes with bacon, caraway, herbs, and a fried egg. Another daytime dish, the turnip toast, is Hakurei turnip two ways, with marcona, farmer’s cheese, pickles, and preserves. From the dinner menu, the sweet potato gnocchi steals the show with Wagyu Beef sugo, purple kale, toasted walnuts, and parsley.
Expanding on the gnocchi scene is the pumpkin gnocchi at the Snake River Grill. The dish is prepared with sage, brown butter, and morning dew farm mushrooms.
A local favorite for over 30 years, The Blue Lion welcomes fall with a roasted squash ratatouille. This stewed vegetable dish, is served with generous layers of seasonal squashes, in their take on a French classic.
For a seasonal lunch try the fall vegetable sandwich at Persephone Bakery. The multigrain bread is served with a squash and ricotta spread, walnut pesto, and filled with wild mushrooms, spinach, and melted gruyere. And if you’ve never tried the sweet potato and brussels hash, now is the time.
If you’re looking for a healthy meal plan option, including paleo, gluten-free, and dairy free nutrition, while still being able to enjoy seasonal flavors, try the vegan butternut squash and chickpea masala from Utilete. Served with seasonal vegetables and long grain rice, this dish has only 525 calories.
And if you don’t know, sweet potatoes are considered the perfect carbohydrate source for post-workout and glycogen recovery. Utilete meals are now also available at Aspens and Pearl Street Markets.
Find the perfect view to go along with your meal at Palate Jackson Hole, located inside the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and indulge in an appetizer of sweet potato jojos, served with chipotle lime crema for dipping, and cilantro.
How about a a hot beverage made with fresh, organic ingredients, with no added sugar? Stop by Healthy Being Organic Cafe and Coldpressed Juicery for a delicious, frothy, and comforting latte. Made with fresh pressed pumpkin seed milk, the pumpkin spice latte, has flavors of ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The antioxidant rich, anti inflammatory, immune boosting, turmeric latte is filled with fresh turmeric root, fresh ginger root, cinnamon, cardamon, and black pepper. And for a cold treat try the cold pressed apple cider, coming soon. Hints of citrus, cinnamon and spices make this a healthy, sweet treat.
Whatever your day has in store, there is nothing like indulging in fresh, handmade pastries to get it started. At Picnic you can find all of the local favorites, this time of year, like apple croissants, pumpkin maple bread, zucchini bundt cake with citrus glaze, cinnamon brioche, maple pecan cranberry scones, oatmeal cranberry toffee cookies, and rice crispy treats decorated with all your favorite fall colors.
And before you scoff at the abundance of pumpkin flavored foods, there is one more worth tasting. The pumpkin spice ice cream from Cream and Sugar is handmade with rich pumpkin puree and a house blend of pumpkin spice. If it’s salty and sweet that triggers your tastebuds, try the salted caramel ice cream, made with sweet cream ice cream, house-made vanilla sea salt and swirls of caramel. At Cream and Sugar the caramel is made from scratch and the results are anything but basic. Limited Release Seasonal Flavors are available only at Bin22 and Bodega when in season.
