These are quiet days at home, trying to appreciate what’s good about life right now – like a soul-warming seasonal feast of spiced pecans, prosciutto-wrapped pork loin and pumpkin-spiced icebox cake.

Easy, sweet/salty Spiced Pecans are the perfect nibble to serve with cocktails or a glass of wine.

Garlic and rosemary infuse this tender pork loin with flavor as it roasts, but it’s the crispy, salty prosciutto scattered over the top that makes the dish.

A typically eclectic mix of folk, folk-rock, and a healthy dose of country – I don’t care about era or even genre as long as the overall feel of the mix is right.

This easy, no-bake Pumpkin Spice Icebox Cake has lighter-than-air layers of fluffy pumpkin mousse spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove, smothered with whipped cream and scattered with shards of chocolate-covered toffee.

Forget dunking your grilled cheese in this thick, creamy, slightly spicy, deeply tomato-y soup – it’s already in there. Cubes of grilled cheese become “croutons” that are much more than a garnish in this warming, hearty soup.

No crumbly oat topping on this Old Fashioned Apple Crisp. Instead, a brown sugar, pecan-studded batter forms a cake-like cap that encloses the soft, cinnamon-scented apples underneath.

The best chicken pot pie has hefty chunks of chicken and tender vegetables suspended in a savory, creamy, herb-flecked broth. But the generous cloak of crust is the best part, buttery and rich with a croissant-like flakiness.

Mozzarella en Carozza is an Italian grilled cheese sandwich that’s pure comfort food, warm and cheesy, crusty on the outside and gooey on the inside, and served with warm marinara sauce for dipping.

Use leftover blueberry sweet rolls, or slices of brioche slathered with blueberry preserves, to make this pillow-y soft, crusty-topped, cinnamon-scented Blueberry Bread Pudding. A drizzle of cool, creamy vanilla Crème Anglaise is the finishing touch.