This carrot bread is just the tiniest bit sweet, and hearty enough to start your morning off beautifully. Ever had a Starbucks Morning Muffin? It tastes almost exactly like that.

Chicken cacciatore is a great way to start embracing fall's rich, rustic flavors: it's filling, easy to prepare, lovely to look at...and costs about $10 for a meal that serves 2 with plenty of leftovers for tomorrow's lunch.

This beauty is easy, relatively inexpensive (about $30 all told), and capable of feeding even the hungriest couple for at least three days (a week if you're flying solo). Oh, and it's the most delicious lasagna on the planet. I mean that.