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Market day ~ what did you buy?
« Thread Started on Jun 25, 2009, 10:13pm »		[Quote]
Today was market day in Zaachila. Here's what I bought. Hope this isn't crass, but I figured some people might want to know, so I show the prices for each item. My total expenditure was 255.5 pesos, or 19.31 US dollars. (a peso is worth @7.557 US cents today).
Some of the things I bought not because I'm out of them, but because they're not always available at the market when I'm there, i.e., the peppercorns and coffee.
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[image] (forgot the garlic -- to the right of the poblanos.)

I wanted dried, powdered shrimp in order to try out the lovely Asian salads discussed here in #s 5 through 8, however it was not available. Instead I bought these little mystery shrimp, which are already cooked and meant for salad. They smell kind of funky. I think they're boiled in heavily salted water and left to lie around until sold. We shall see.
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« Reply #1 on Jun 25, 2009, 10:22pm »		[Quote]
Do not fear strong smelling shrimp. But do not be surprised if you are not constipated the next day.
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« Reply #2 on Jun 26, 2009, 5:55pm »		[Quote]
The shrimp were okay, but a bitch to peel. They were extremely salty. I first poured boiling water over the peeled meat, then let it set awhile in lime juice. I made a version of that SE Asia fruit & vegetable salad & boiled down the peels to make the dressing.

Where is everyone else's take from shopping? I wanna see!
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« Reply #3 on Jun 26, 2009, 6:09pm »		[Quote]
I'll do some shopping this weekend.
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« Reply #4 on Jun 26, 2009, 6:27pm »		[Quote]
Around here, you would pay more than that just for the mezcal...
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« Reply #5 on Jun 26, 2009, 6:28pm »		[Quote]
Big time expenditure,mezcal! Are the peppercorns grown there? I know they need a mountainous climate.
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« Reply #6 on Jun 26, 2009, 7:13pm »		[Quote]
See that you do, Kerouac.

Imec, there are many, many small producers of mezcal around here. There are people walking around every market selling it. You see that the bottle (1 liter) has no label. I could get it even cheaper at that market, but the people (a husband & wife) I buy from have a consistent, good product. One has to be discreet about this, but quite a few of the little general stores in neighborhoods sell mezcal under the counter. It's also sold door-to-door.

Huh! Good question, Casimira. I never thought to ask about the peppercorns. I'd love to have a vine of it. Will try to find out.
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« Reply #7 on Jun 27, 2009, 12:29am »		[Quote]
I stayed home today, and made spnach and basil pesto from the espinacas and albahaca (guess!) I bought in the Pátzcuaro mercado yesterday. Also bought a 1/4 kilo of white, cultivated mushrooms, even though the season is beginning for wild mushrooms. At the moment, "hongos del llano", or field mushrooms are available, but I just ddn't want to deal with them at this time.

Also a kilo of tomates verdes, also known as tomatillos, but they were intended to stretch the remaining carne en su jugo of wednesady. But there's so little of that left, i'll find another use for the tomates verdes.

Also, pimientos morrones de colores, or sweet capsicums in various colors.

What else? We bought two half baguettes with sesame seeds, and a few donuts from the new Bodega Aurrerá supermarket. To our delight, the pan baguette is quite good and the donuts are the best we've ever eaten in all of México.

Another surprise at Bodega Aurrerá were the pepinos criollos, small cucumbers, not the overgrown seedy ones grown locally, nor the long, English variety, but of a size just right for pickling. As they have a light wax coating, I've scrubbed then the best I could and am attempting to make a half gallo of Kosher Dill Pickles. At 1 peso apiece, these are not the cheapest, 3 kilos for 5 pesos as seen in the mercado, but of a higher quality.
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« Reply #8 on Jun 27, 2009, 7:59pm »		[Quote]
Today I bought mushrooms, radishes, vine tomatoes, cherries, green bell peppers, duck breasts, sliced chorizo, cured ham, crème fraîche, babas au rhum and strawberry fromage frais, among other things.
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« Reply #9 on Jun 27, 2009, 8:38pm »		[Quote]
But no batteries for the camera, apparently.

There are people here (well, me) who'd enjoy seeing the strawberry fromage frais, for instance.
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« Reply #10 on Jun 27, 2009, 8:47pm »		[Quote]

Jun 27, 2009, 8:38pm, bixaorellana wrote:
But no batteries for the camera, apparently.

There are people here (well, me) who'd enjoy seeing the strawberry fromage frais, for instance.


Like me for instance.

No shopping this weekend as we're trying to get rid of everything perishable as we'll be gone in six days.
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« Reply #11 on Jun 27, 2009, 8:51pm »		[Quote]
And I thank god every single day that you are not the sort of person to rub that in. :-*
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« Reply #12 on Jun 27, 2009, 8:55pm »		[Quote]
The reason for no photos is that I went to the supermarket and everything ended up in plastic bags or containers. I weighed the tremendous importance of getting everything out and photographing it against the idea of all of the unwrapped items rotting before I was ready to eat them in this torrid weather, and my miserly ways won out.
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« Reply #13 on Jun 27, 2009, 8:57pm »		[Quote]
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Oh, okay. Considering the vast amount of beautiful, entertaining, and informative photos you provide to AnyPort, I guess it's all right just this once.
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« Reply #14 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:18pm »		[Quote]
Today I bought a pomegranate (Israel), bananas (Martinique), green papaya (Thailand), cailan (Thailand), white aubergine (Thailand) and cilantro (France).

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« Reply #15 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:24pm »		[Quote]
What gorgeous produce! Are the white eggplant the same as the little ones HW shows in his meal photos? The greens are cailan? How is that cooked?
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« Reply #16 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:29pm »		[Quote]
It is sautéed (at least that's how I did it, in oil, nuoc mam, soy sauce, lime juice... and beer (since I could see it needed more liquid and I was holding a can in my hand).

Yes, the white eggplants are the same.

Will no one mention the size of the pomegranate? (compare it to the bunch of bananas, which are full sized bananas, not dwarf ones) It is the size of a large grapefruit.
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« Reply #17 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:32pm »		[Quote]
Those vegetables look so good K. And cilantro is my favorite herb, it's used in Indian dishes frequently. My mom grows that, as well as others similar herbs in her garden.
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« Reply #18 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:32pm »		[Quote]
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« Reply #19 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:35pm »		[Quote]
And it's all mine!!!!!
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« Reply #20 on Jul 22, 2009, 7:38pm »		[Quote]
Don't worry. If I had only one pomegranate, I'd still give it to you. Except for their beauty, I see no use for them. Would it be cruel to tell you that plastic cups full of cleaned pomegranate seeds are sold everywhere here?
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« Reply #21 on Jul 22, 2009, 8:18pm »		[Quote]
Our neighbors, across the street, have a pomegranate tree in their yard that bears fruit much of the year.
We can have all we want, pero no me encantan. (they don't charm me). I jutht can't thtand the pith.
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« Reply #22 on Jul 22, 2009, 8:19pm »		[Quote]

Jul 22, 2009, 8:18pm, Don Cuevas wrote:
Our neighbors, across the street, have a pomegranate tree in their yard that bears fruit much of the year.


We can have all we want, pero no me encantan. (they don't charm me). I jutht can't thtand the pith.

I'm not buying any produce this week as we'll be in Mexico City for over 3 days this weekend.
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« Reply #23 on Jul 22, 2009, 8:40pm »		[Quote]
At other times of the year, the pomegranates (and the limes) in France are imported from Mexico.
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« Reply #24 on Jul 22, 2009, 11:19pm »		[Quote]
I don't know what happened at # 27 ??? ::)
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« Reply #25 on Jul 23, 2009, 12:17am »		[Quote]
Beautiful shot K., worthy of a still life painting. Our pot luck host last p.m. is an artist and his early work was mostly still lifes of fruits and vegetables. I never tire of them.
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« Reply #26 on Jul 23, 2009, 4:48am »		[Quote]
Yeah, good one, K!

For those still studying/living in Europe/poor craving cheap greens:
Cailan is broccoli, but bred not for the flowers but the leaves.

Another thing, kohlrabi greens are excellent stir fried as well (shred them a bit, remove the leaves' stems, use K2's recipe). When I was still a student I sometimes went into supermarkets and asked for them and got them for free.

I think tomorrow is our market day.
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« Reply #27 on Jul 23, 2009, 4:57am »		[Quote]
I had to go to the supermarket in order to buy a wedding gift. (supermarket = small appliances)

Didn't get anything exciting in the way of food, except that I finally got the ground dried shrimp I've been wanting to experiment with for the Asian salads. I was going to buy peanut butter for those salads as well, but I refuse to pay three bucks for 340 grams of Skippy.

I did get a beautiful bunch of cilantro and some very fresh, very small zucchini.
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« Reply #28 on Jul 23, 2009, 8:42am »		[Quote]
I have a small lime tree on my balcony so I don't have to import them.

Skippy peanut butter is terribly expensive here too. I don't eat the stuff, but my husband sometimes likes it. He goes to a Chinese-run store in the neighbourhood of African shops and buys it there much cheaper. Dutch peanut butter is a lot cheaper than Skippy too.
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« Reply #29 on Jul 23, 2009, 4:32pm »		[Quote]
I've just found this thread. I like it! I might take a pic of my purchases later.
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