Hannah Agran

Our favorite savory apple recipes include hearty main dishes, tempting sides, refreshing salads, sandwiches, and even chili and soup. Because when fall arrives, we want to get our apple fix every meal of the day—including lunch and dinner!

Explore recipes from across the globe, many shared by chefs and entrepreneurs who are capturing national attention and redefining Midwest cuisine. Dishes include Mexican tacos and pozole, Syrian hummus, French crepes, British lemon posset, Vietnamese-style noodle soup, Japanese chicken katsu, and many more.

These 31 dishes—including a vegetarian chili, veggie pasta and veggie soups—are loaded with flavor from healthy ingredients like sweet potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, bulgur wheat, butternut squash, quinoa and more.

Our top bar cookie recipes include twists on pumpkin bars, scotcheroos, lemon bars, pecan bars, brownies and more.

Our very best chocolate dessert recipes include chocolate pound cake, homemade brownies, chocolate cookies, hot fudge, chocolate cream pie, German chocolate cake, mocha gooey butter cake and more. The list includes easy chocolate recipes and also chocolate recipes for special occasions.

Get ahead of the dinner game with these inventive, nourishing recipes from Pasture and Plenty, a prepared foods shop and cafe in Madison, Wisconsin. They all freeze well or have elements you can prepare ahead. The list includes Smoky Beef Chili with Sweet Peppers, classic shepherd's pie, and a cheesy baked ziti.

These sweet and salty recipes for cookies, bars, cakes, and snack mixes are sure to tempt anyone to take a second bite.

We visited chef Jorge Guzmán at his home in Minneapolis to learn how to make Mexican tamales. In this video, he talks through every step of how to fill, fold, and steam authentic tamales, and he also shares recipes for three unique tamales fillings.

Wander Women Midwest is an outfitter leading day trips and multi-day excursions in central Iowa; other Midwest states; and even internationally. Their motto is Challenge by Choice. Here's the story of how I opted in—taking my first real backpacking camping trip in Yellow River State Forest in northeast Iowa.

A James Beard finalist and fixture on the Minneapolis dining scene, chef Jorge Guzmán has spent his career using cooking to explore his identity—born in Mexico, raised in the Midwest, and on a constant journey to find the balance between the two.