Been in a cooking slump lately. Gotta get back in it. Need some original ideas guys.
Not original, but a solid favourite for this time of year:
Pumpkin soup accompanied by Gruyere crab cakes
or muffin-tin cornbread.
The sweet and salty works well with Gruyere and crab, the same way cheese on a slice of pie works I guess. No chilli is needed, but I can't stop you if you're hellbent. If you rather cornbread, use cornmeal and I recommend for a muffin tray of 12, do 4 of each: plain, diced jalapeno and cheddar, and diced fried bacon (bacon bits will work too). Served with chipotle butter and pumpkin soup, maybe onion rings simply high temp oil good batter and salt to season.
If you don't intend to have the mildly warm chilli in the cornbead or crabcakes, then have it in the pumpkin soup by way of garlic and chilli sauce fried in the bottom of the pan with pumpkin after you soften up then drain some butternut pumpkin cubes. Dont forget cream once you've brought the soup temp down.