Fruit: apples, navel oranges, tiny sweet mandarins, and crimson seedless grapes.
Vegies: 1/2 red cabbage, 2 Jap pumpkins ($1.50 each and so sweet and flavourful!), carrots, green beans, Brussel sprouts, celery, spring onions, broccoli (finally less expensive!), lettuce, tomatoes.
A bargain at A$49 = US$37.
I also bought some dried adzuki beans, fine polenta (cornmeal, to make the cornbread I've been craving) and millet (inspired by the wide variety of grains in fauxcouture's diet).
3 comments:
Just plain old green beans. I did try the Chinese long beans, and liked them a lot, but these were cheaper and we are on Austerity Plan #37.
I love these pumpkins too, I just tried them recently; the Italian family who runs my produce shop grows them organically themselves and they are so good. I've only baked them so far... because then you don't have to peel them!! I love pumpkin soup too. Sometimes I make it with Thai curry paste and add coconut cream at the end. I had it last weekend garnished with sour cream and fresh basil, that was good. I also sometimes make the soup half lentils or yellow split peas because the kids don't notice the legumes (I'm trying to get my kids to eat more beans and lentils).
Do the Japanese pumpkins taste like chestnuts? What is another name for them? The Greenstar Co-op used to get a squash called "chestnut squash". They looked just like that and were so yummy. I have never been able to find them again.
A friend of mine was looking at your blog and she was amazed and impressed with a family that eats that much fruit. It is great that your family enjoys natural sweets and it is so good for them.
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