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Farmer's Market
2-22-2005

I got some different stuff again this week, cool. The mamey sapote is coming into season, so got some of that & I got some langsat, which I've never had before. Nifty.
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$17 of Coconuts:
The people I usually get the $10 of coconuts from each week are going to the Phillippines to visit family and for vacation for a few weeks, so I got extra. I got the rest of what they had when I went to pick them up at market, which was $7. It was actually 19 coconuts though as they gave me a couple extra for free. They also gave me a couple of hands of apple bananas as well (sorry, forgot to photograph those before my hubby at 'em). They are so nice. I think they think of me in a parently way. Very sweet.



$15 of Cooking Bananas
These are part of my regular $20 order from the guy I get these and the ladyfinger ones in the next frame --> from. He gave me the two on the right of the upper pic for free.


$5 of Ladyfinger Bananas
These are part of the same regular $20 order I got the cooking bananas shown in the previous frame <--. He gives me a discount on both since I get them regularly and in bulk...



$70 of Grade A Rambutan:
This is freshly picked primo rambutan, mmm... It's about 22 or 23 pounds without the box and I got it at a discount 'cause it's from the woman I get lots of the interesting fruits from, heh. Well, it's a discount with her prices, but occasionally I can get it from other, less dependable, sources for less - and do. ;-)


$80 of Produce:
$40 bag of mangosteen
$40 of mamey sapote
3 chicu for free


$20 of Langsat
This is the first time I've had these. It has a different Filipino name, but I don't have that one down yet. This was from the only harvest she had of this - first fruiting of the tree, so I probably won't be getting any more for some time. They are interesting. I'm glad she brought them in for me. They look kind of like longan on the outside, and you open them the same way, but are quite different.



$3 of Produce:
$2 asparagus (after I ate 2/3 of it)
$2 of fern shoots*

The asparagus was so good that I ate lots of it before I had a chance to take a picture. I had to hold myself back in order to have any to photograph, heh.
*I'm not sure if the fern shoots are edible raw...

A friend of mine had gotten some of the fern shoots and was munching on it at market. She offered me some and I asked if it was edible raw, she assured me it was. I have had fiddleheads from certain ferns that look similar before so I tasted a bit. It tasted similar but not so bitter.

She showed me where she got it from and I asked about it while buying some. It turned out that the woman selling it said you have to cook it 'a little' in order to eat it in salads, that you'd get a stomach ache if you didn't.

Many of the farmers say that you need to cook stuff that you don't, but some things have to be cooked or they're deadly... so now I don't know what to think.

I'm going to have to figure it out. She couldn't say what kind it is so I will have to find some way to identify it.

In the meantime, I'm erring on the side of safety and skipping it.


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