• red cabbage
• Chinese broccoli

Now i've had red cabbage before, but I've never cooked it myself - so this is something new, in a sense. And the Chinese broccoli is completely new to me, so that'll be fun.

We trekked out into the perfect Indian summer late-Sunday-morning sun to find something to fill our tummies and our souls.

We came home an hour later with:

• A new kind of soap the scent of which Ruth Ann's daughter Rachel described as lying down on a forest carpet of pine needles and fall leaves
• A half-gallon of whole milk (Rudi has promised me tapioca this week)
• A half-gallon of apple cider (because the house smells so nice when it's cooking on the stove)
• Jicama (a South American root vegetable that I'm eager to try)
• Turkish eggplant
• Peppers in fall colors
• Tomatoes from a greenhouse
• Broccoli for soup
• Leeks for soup
• Gigantic red beets (almost as big as your head!)
• Suncrisp apples
• A yellow onion
• Young, fresh garlic
• Brussels sprouts
• Mascarpone
• Blueberry scones

Next week I'm going to pick up nuts (if they still have some) and winter squash. I just wasn't ready to switch seasons quite yet!