$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.
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$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.
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$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...
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$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. ;-)
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$80 of Produce:
$40 bag of mangosteen
$40 of mamey sapote
3 chicu for free
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$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.
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$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...
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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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