It's Fall

After the storms dumping over a few inches of rain, it is finally like fall here. Lower 50s in the morning and upper 60s during the day. PERFECT!!!
We drove to a farm which has a market next to it.It is October so there were a lot of pumpkin (we did not buy any of these, but bought a Kabocha pumpkin for dinner).

Flowers were fully bloomed - it is called Kiku in Japan, but it is very popular here in the U.S. during fall season. Some colors were very unique and I have never seen before.

Dinner was as usual a home cooking using fall vegetables we bought at the market - Kabocha pumpkin, peppers (hot ones, green ones, and Italian ones), and Okura. I thought that Okura is a traditional Japanese vegetable till a few years ago when I learned that it is from South America and many southern cuisines use Okura, e.g .Gambo in New Orleans.

We needed a desert - usually we buy something as I am not a baker, but we started learning to make apple crisp. This time we used a few different apples to make the dish a bit more complicated taste. Old fashion rolled oats gave the dish great crunches. It was good in warm and it will be good in cold as well.