A  trip to Brixton  Sunday Farmers/ market and stuffing my bag with purple cauliflowers, black cabbage and a rather dinky looking pumpkin.  I can't bring myself to hack a  Halloween grimace and so  it sits  here intact   in the kitchen  looking plump  orange, and seasonal.  



More rich rich colour in the fresh beetroots  which I roast in thin salty  slivers to make the diy version of  packaged root crisps that are rather expensive if you get the habit. I have been catching up with  Mad Men, which I never saw first time round. So much smoking, whisky and misogony.  Nevertheless great characters, I swear I know a Don Draper  and  my eyes are dazzled by the outfits, so much colour.  A  kitsch and frosted  housewifely  cupcake isn/t so palatable after watching Betty Draper sweat the impossible domestic  American dream. Apple cake is a more equal opportunities thing,  doesn/t demand much fuss in the kitchen and is  autumnal as buying a new pair of  warm ankle boots .  



PS Have been out and about. Went to launch of The Middle Class ABC , but was more bowled over by a cooling lick  of dill and cucumber ice cream - made by a  girl who sells  at Bermondsey market.  I lost her card in the  heaving middle class scrum. Bubba/s in  Tulse Hill  is such good news for us locals who can eat delicious modern Caribbean cooking , or just enjoy  a cocktail or  glass of fizz, without heading off to the bright lights. The head chef, is also called Cumberbatch! Forgotten how energising an open air swim is  at the heated Oasis pool in the heart of  Covent garden and  followed by oysters and champagne at Sheekeys was a enormous treat from a great  friend recently.

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