Every Saturday morning, I wander over to the Union Square Green Market with an empty reusable (gstar) bag and a bit of curiosity.  I try to buy at least one item I’ve never cooked or purchased before.  This past Saturday’s new items: leeks, winter squash and decorative squash (the knurly ones).  I made a great potato leek soup from Alice Water’s recent book and put the squash in a place where they’d make people think “yep, it’s fall.”

Other purchases: honeycrisp apples (my current fave), arugula, cornbread and Vermont maple syrup (for impending pumpkin pancakes).