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Post by hwinpp on Sept 22, 2009 4:30:15 GMT
Thanks to both of you. Yes, I'd love to try them.
Yesterday a guest staying over until Saturday gave us two nom soms. One filled with banana and one filled with pork. What intrigued me was that they had a smoky smell and taste. They weren't just steamed but BBQ'd after that as well. Quite interesting.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 22, 2009 20:47:26 GMT
One more month of Saturday farmers markets here in Montana. This past Saturday I got fresh sweet corn and garden tomatoes... No photos, you all know what they look like.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 22, 2009 21:08:49 GMT
I'd love to try those, HW. That's interesting about the double cooking method. The next time you have a leftover nom som, do something people do with leftover tamales: unwrap it into a lightly greased skillet and heat it over a low fire. It will probably get some crispness on the bottom and be totally yummy.
Kimby! Glad to hear you're alive and well and buying fresh produce. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on some fresh sweet corn, something that's hardly ever available here.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 23, 2009 7:50:05 GMT
Eh?
I thought Mexico is the 'Land of Corn'?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2009 21:57:25 GMT
It is, but the corn here is much more like field corn than the tender,sweet yellow corn that I know from the US, and which I believe is what is eaten in Europe as well. typical Mexican corn:  |
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 24, 2009 6:58:39 GMT
Yes, true. It looks a bit coarse.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2009 5:01:52 GMT
When I was little, the stores sold both white corn and yellow corn. I don't know what the difference was supposed to be, and I was too young to worry about prices at that time, if perhaps that was the point of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 25, 2009 5:47:27 GMT
This fruit is not really from the market, as a friend gave it to me Monday. These are the four not yet eaten, shown with a regular teaspoon for scale:  Here's the tree from which the fruit came. The shot is from the wedding in the country thread.  I've always ignored this fruit, as it's one sold frequently sold unripe for making into a strange dish that to me tastes like a cross between preserves and olives.  But the fresh fruit is a delicious thrill, with a texture between apple and peach, including an elusive powdery note. It has more than a hint of spice and is just acid enough to make it interesting. It's called "ciruela" around here, which is aso the word for plum. Has anyone else encountered it? toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/SPONDIAS_PURPUREA.htm |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Sept 25, 2009 22:45:24 GMT
Today, from the traditional mercado of Pátzcuaro: acelgas (green chard), calabacitas (zucchini-like); eggplant, sweet peppers, purple onion, garlic, celery, flat leaf parsley; from the Mercado Buen Provecho (once a week, specialty foods market): Black Italian Kale and Mustard Greens. Bixa; those ciruelas are sold around here also, but I haven't tried them recently. I may have to give them a go again. (Next morning, September 26, 2009) I was looking at Grace Meng's blog, "One Fork, One Spoon", and saw this picture of "jujubes" in Korea. oneforkonespoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/p1010931.jpg?w=450&h=348Look similar? Long ago, we used to buy Chinese Red Dates ("hung joe", believe it or not, in the dried form. They were sometimes called "jujubes". Maybe they are the same as "ciruelas". |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Sept 26, 2009 12:18:22 GMT
Nope. Not even close, except for their outward appearance. I looked up both fruits on WikiPedia, and they are from different families.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 13:53:27 GMT
I saw jujubes at the supermarket today at some obscene price like 26€/kg. I don't even know what one does with them, except for industrial candymakers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 27, 2009 21:54:50 GMT
DonC ~~ you made me look them up, too. The ones in the oneforkonespoon picture definitely look like the "ciruelas". Here is the Chinese jujube: tradewindsfruit.com/jujube.htm. And this is the Indian Jujube: www.tradewindsfruit.com/indian_jujube.htm. I strongly feel that I need to experience jujubes. I went to the Xoxo Sunday market this morning. I had a nice tamal en salsa verde. The lady from whom I buy my tamales wraps her verde ones in banana leaf rather than corn shuck -- very good. She told me today that she makes the masa (tamal dough) from scratch, including growing the corn. She beats the dough with schmaltz from the chickens cooked to go into the tamales. I bought two chichilo tamales for home. My other purchases were dog bones, guava, chapulines, and a rose bush. The cup is mine. It's an old-fashioned diner cup, put in the picture to show scale. The next three pictures are exactly life-sized.   I could not resist this rose because of its color and form.  |
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 7:42:33 GMT
At the Cazals Sunday market we bought 10 kilos of tomatoes (for sauce for the freezer), greean beans, aubergines - all from one of the organic stalls. Strawberries from a stall with a choice of 5 varieties. I had a good inspection of the stall that sells Asian products; this is great and means we shan't have to bring stuff over from England. There are lots of stalls selling local honey and goat's cheese. It is a really good market which is a delight.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 12, 2009 16:39:26 GMT
Final outdoor market of the year is this coming Saturday. It's been so friggin cold in Montana the last week that most of the crops have been frozen. For those who need a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, though, it's a perfect opportunity.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 12, 2009 22:32:46 GMT
12F in Pullman near Spokane Saturday night.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 14, 2009 2:11:29 GMT
I went to the Abastos market today. Tuesday is the big day for produce, although since I went fairly late in the day many of the vendors were gone. I absolutely love the Abastos because it's so huge -- a giant throbbing heart of commerce for this capital city and all the little towns around it. Here's my haul:  Everything IDed:  Close-up of the fish:  If you are a fisherman and/or of a scientific mind, go here and put barrilete into "find". It comes from the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, and the taste and texture are tuna-like. Black Sapote. Click on the picture for more information.  I opened one so you all can see inside. This picture and the preceding are larger than life-size.  My little thrill for the day. These are clay molds for making the faces that go on the bread baked for Days of the Dead.  The ones shown here will be on sale in the ka-zillions in another week. I'm taking the molds to my mother, who will get a kick out of them . |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 2:33:23 GMT
 I bought some of these albino looking habeneros today, I want to save some seeds to grow. |
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 14, 2009 3:37:00 GMT
I'd have said mackerel. Has it been fried or is it smoked? Are habaneros the extra spicy ones? Are they that colour naturally or do they grow in the dark? Alas, our chile story is a sad one. I'll post it in the gardening branch.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 14, 2009 4:49:43 GMT
The lady said it was baked. The skin was really burnt tasting, so I took it off. It was not salted at all.
I never saw those Johnny Winter habaneros before, not even in a seed catalogue. HW, if you can get some seeds for any kind of habanero, grow them. They really have a different taste & are insanely hot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 10:17:31 GMT
 hw,these are the "normal" habeneros,which taste anything but normal they are soooo hot! I bought the white ones as I had never seen before and were so novel. |
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 14, 2009 10:45:44 GMT
If they're available in the US I might be able to get some seeds. I have a few friends who go to California on a regular basis.
Habanero it is!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 10:50:25 GMT
Oh definitely hw,seeds can be had of all kinds of peppers,habenero,you name it.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 14, 2009 15:11:57 GMT
Habeneros go great in soup. I made a huge pot of shrimp/onion soup with habeneros, ginger and honey that was a smash hit but I'm not sure exactly how I made it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2009 10:55:37 GMT
Today I bought a slab of fatback, some Chinese greens, Thai rice, tangerines (clementines), Belgian amber beer, cilantro and mushrooms.
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Post by traveler63 on Oct 18, 2009 11:03:48 GMT
At home and to the store to replenish our stash after 30 days away. Well, the regular stuff, milk, etc. Gosh, as I was picking up mushrooms, salad greens, some chicken, and ground turkey I visualized what I had been doing a week ago at this time(btw, yes, 4:00 am which would be 13:00 pm Paris time) so as you can see, the ole bod is still on Paris time. It's Sunday and the Monoprix is closed and so I would be in an open air market. Certainly nothing on our grocery shelves like what I would be looking at in Paris.
So, K2 jealous!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 20:43:01 GMT
More peppers...one is an Italian I forget the name of,the other is a Thai .   |
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Post by imec on Nov 17, 2009 16:33:19 GMT
At the risk of appearing excessive, obsessive, not to mention downright greedy, here's what I bought on the way to the Jean Lesage Airport yesterday in Quebec City. Yes, I know it's insane - I couldn't help myself (if we weren't in danger of missing our flight I daresay the damage would have been more severe). If someone is aware of a 12 step program for people like me, I'm interested.  Clockwise from top left: Rillettes de Porc from Les Rillettes du Mans- Eric Mauboussin; Round Ham, Saucisson de Menage (the straight one), Chorizo (the curled one), Lonzo (lean pork loin) and Coppa (fattier pork loin) all from les Cochons tout ronds - both of these vendors were located in Le Marche du Vieux Port.  A selection of Quebec cheeses of Cow, Sheep and Goat's milk purchased at La Fromagère in Le Marche du Vieux Port and Maison J. A. Moisan on Rue St. Jean. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 17, 2009 17:21:36 GMT
Damn! I licked the screen looking at that first picture, and almost hyperventilated taking deep whiffs of the second.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't take advantage of being able to buy that stuff where it's available!
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Post by imec on Nov 17, 2009 17:38:53 GMT
And besides - would make for a decent APIAS NA pissup...
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Post by cristina on Nov 17, 2009 17:43:42 GMT
Very nice haul, imec! When should I book my flight to Winnipeg? ;D
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But the fresh fruit is a delicious thrill, with a texture between apple and peach, including an elusive powdery note. It has more than a hint of spice and is just acid enough to make it interesting. It's called "ciruela" around here, which is aso the word for plum.
