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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2009 16:23:08 GMT
 Yellow summer squash! Patty-pans! La. strawberries! Gulf crabs! A wide variety of herbs! And is that rhubarb I see snugged between the carrots & beets? I imagine many of you think that I have my nerve whining, living where I do, but there are some things I miss terribly. Beautiful shots, Casimira, & like Jazz you have inspired me. Since moving, I've been eating from the supermarket  and it's time to treat myself much better.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2009 16:43:15 GMT
Those are soft shell crabs and the rhubarb looking veggie is actually a beautiful chard.
The little boy eating the creole tomato I have dubbed Johney Rotten because he always looks to be in a rotten mood,every week I see him. I rather like him.
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Post by hwinpp on May 13, 2009 4:40:21 GMT
Great shots there, Cas!
Hmmm, soft shelled crabs. Love 'em.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 11:20:45 GMT
Thanks hw! (slowly getting the knack,not like you!). I love the soft shell crabs too. How do you prepare them?
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 11:29:23 GMT
Those pictures are quite lush.
I have never eaten a soft shell crab for some reason. I never had any at home, so there was no urge to go out looking for any when I grew up.
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Post by bjd on May 13, 2009 15:11:12 GMT
I don't know what mulberries look like. Yes, of course I took lots of pictures -- more for the colours and people than for the food.
I was just thinking this morning that it's a bad time of year for fruit. The citrus stuff is finished, the apples are ending, the kiwis are overripe and the cherries are just beginning to ripen. So, other than strawberries, there isn't much available and I don't want to eat strawberries every day.
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Post by rikita on May 13, 2009 16:46:11 GMT
back to asparagus for a second - it had never occured to me to eat white asparagus raw, but it does taste quite nice in fact...
else, the local strawberries are still very expensive right now, and the imported ones or from greenhouses taste kind of bland...
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 17:45:39 GMT
I am anxiously awaiting the local strawberries... followed by the cherries.
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Post by bjd on May 13, 2009 19:20:18 GMT
We have 2 cherry trees in the garden. Right now the cherries are just beginning to get reddish, but the blackbirds are already pecking away. In addition to blackbirds, it has been very windy and not very nice these days, so there are cherries falling on the ground.
On the other hand, there are already local strawberries around here.
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Post by hwinpp on May 15, 2009 7:35:47 GMT
Thanks hw! (slowly getting the knack,not like you!). I love the soft shell crabs too. How do you prepare them? Sorry, King's birthday yesterday so I wasn't in the office. I've never prepared them myself but I like them in two varieties. One is as chile crabs, available best in Malaysia and Singapore I find, and a version they do here, using batter and deep frying. Not very imaginative but quite good. Bought my first two kg of mangosteens of the year yesterday. And polished them off in about 30 minutes of intense eating! Good stuff, I'll get more on Saturday.  I'm also waiting for the first Lichees from China. Durians are coming down in price slowly. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2009 8:29:34 GMT
I'll try to see what durians are selling for in Paris this weekend, just to shock you.
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Post by bjd on May 15, 2009 11:32:04 GMT
The price of mangosteens also prevents anyone from buying 2 kilos at once.
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Post by mockchoc on May 15, 2009 17:04:57 GMT
Two kilos of mangosteens? I'd almost kill for that!!!!!!
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Post by bazfaz on May 15, 2009 18:20:28 GMT
bjd, I don't know where you live but we are near Olargues/St Pons/Bedarieux. We have lots of cherry trees around us and the birds show no interest in them. Thankfully.
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Post by hwinpp on May 16, 2009 3:52:45 GMT
The price of mangosteens also prevents anyone from buying 2 kilos at once. 1 kg is 5000 riel, 1.25USD. MC, aren't there mangosteens locally grown in Australia? I know there are good mangos there. Baz mentioned cherries. I miss those. 14USD for a kg of perfect ones from Japan. I'm not paying that! |
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Post by bjd on May 16, 2009 20:10:27 GMT
Bazfaz, maybe your birds have other things to keep them busy?
I live in Toulouse, or rather the immediate suburbs.
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Post by hwinpp on May 18, 2009 4:31:25 GMT
For all you mangosteen fans out there! Got a kg of langkong for good measure, still slightly more expensive than should be at 7000 riel. But plump, juicy and sweet already:   |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2009 5:08:19 GMT
I've never had a mangosteen, but I can tell just by looking at the picture that I would love them. Never heard of langkong -- from a tree, a vine? I went to the big Abastos market yesterday. Chiles de agua are in season. This is a very local chile used roasted and peeled in all kinds of things. It is also smoke-dried to make the chile pasilla de Oaxaca.   . The dried ones are frequently reconstituted and stuffed with a chicken or meat mixture slightly sweetened with raisins -- very hot & good. They were practically giving the fresh chiles away yesterday, also the new crop of onions. I got at least 2 kilos of fresh, cleaned white onions for 5 pesos (less than 38 cents, US) |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2009 6:33:35 GMT
Oh yeah -- small, excellent local peaches, also small local pears with an almost spicy flavor. They look like miniature Bartletts, except the body goes directly into the stem, instead of the stem being set into the fruit as is usual. Also a fruit that's called ciruelo (plum) here, although it's not really a plum. There's a tree of it in front of my porch -- I let the birds have the fruit.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2009 8:45:42 GMT
I haven't been to the vegetable market in a few days, but I can tell that I need to return urgently -- and to the Chinese supermarket as well.
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Post by imec on May 18, 2009 20:25:51 GMT
Fiddleheads! I'll saute some with butter, garlic and parsley tonight.
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Post by imec on May 19, 2009 1:59:57 GMT
They were delicious!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2009 2:28:48 GMT
Never see fiddleheads here.Oh,maybe for some exorbitant price at Whole Paycheck,I mean Whole Foods. We used to pick them in the wild in NY.Oh,I would love some fresh fiddleheads.
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Post by rikita on May 23, 2009 11:29:38 GMT
hm the first strawberry on my balcony is starting to get a bit red, so soon i will be eating my own strawberries. though i only have two plants, i only got them for the joy of eating something from my balcony, for any bigger amount of strawberry i want to eat, i still have to buy them.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 23, 2009 13:48:16 GMT
That is so nice, Rikita! It's great that you figured out a way for the plant display on your balcony to give you extra interest and pleasure.
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Post by auntieannie on May 23, 2009 19:18:50 GMT
yep... been making rhubab and strawberry jam using local produce last weekend and again today.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2009 19:29:46 GMT
All of the African women who will be selling corn on the cob on the sidewalk out of their bags in a couple of months are currently selling big piles of... mangosteens. I looked at all of the greengrocers in the African part of town, and nobody has them. So I don't know where these African women are obtaining them... or how much they are charging.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 3:32:59 GMT
Fresh Chilton County ,Alabama peaches and sweet corn arrived at our doorstep this evening.
Gratis for feeding neighbor's kitties.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 14:50:56 GMT
Okay, specially for hwinpp, the price of durians in Paris right now is 8.50€ a kilo, otherwise known as 48,750 Cambodian riels a kilo.
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Post by rikita on May 24, 2009 19:11:15 GMT
ate the first strawberry today... they are of that very small type, like the ones that grow in forests, that taste very intense...
hm, keep thinking to buy rhubab each time i see it in the market. as a kid i used to like to just have a whole stick of that, and a little bowl with sugar, and dip it into the sugar then eat it... i always then remind myself that the amounts of sugar i consume that way are probably not healthy, but i guess one day i will do that again anyway...
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Yellow summer squash! Patty-pans! La. strawberries! Gulf crabs! A wide variety of herbs! And is that rhubarb I see snugged between the carrots & beets?
and it's time to treat myself much better.
