Indian Summer

 

Is it permissible to say "Indian Summer" any more?  I'm really not sure...

Anyway, that's certainly what we've been having, though I feel ready for fall to kick in for real.  I sometimes forget the obvious fact that autumn means the harvest - I often expect that the greenmarket will be at its most bountiful during summer months, but really that's only the beginning... I ended up not getting to Union Square to buy some produce until yesterday, and was rewarded by a market that seemed almost twice as large as I remember the Monday market normally being - still lots of summer produce (eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, corn) with the addition of all the things I associate with fall, as you can see from the picture above.  And bins and bins of apples!

And now I'm going to take Amanda's advice (in her comment on my last post) and start my list of 40 new resolutions... one of them will most definitely be to be less lazy in the kitchen and to use the soufflet dish I received (at my request, no less!) for my birthday but so far has gone untouched.  In the meantime, I'm proud to say that I put a very old container of sour cream to use to make a cake this evening... and now it's time to see how it worked out! (You can see that we dined late...)