Seasons of the grocery store
(When I'm sitting at my computer, trying very unsuccessfully to do work, there's suddenly a lot more to blog about than there has been for the past three days...)
Today I went to the grocery store. I had to; I was out of rice.
Cherry tomatoes (known here as "mini tomato") are available now, and man are they yummy. Last week I ate the whole 198JPY pack in one sitting, so this week I got a slightly larger pack (for the same price of 198JPY I think, the price of the smaller pack having gone down). I just ate 10 of them. I meant to stop at 5.
I also got some green beans. 198JPY for a fistful. Sad, isn't it? I really appreciate now what a pig I am at home when my mom puts a small mountain of them in front of me.
And I got a very small pack of okra (oh how I miss those big American bins of loose fruits and vegetables that you sort through and choose and take as much as you want of), which I don't prepare very well but figured I could handle for one meal. I don't know how my mother does it. I just can't get the seasoning and the consistency right. As often as not, it isn't just that they aren't as good as Mother's, it's that they're just not good. (Happy Mother's Day, by the way.)
Also picked up some bananas from the Philippines for breakfasts. There were some smaller ones from Taiwan as well, but they were more expensive. Go figure. My banana-taste can only distinguish two kinds of bananas. Those fat, squat, really awesome tasty ones people feed me in Assam that I for some reason call "man-eating bananas" and everything else. The Filipino ones will do for me.
I was doing kiwis (which are much cooler than the average banana) for breakfast the last two weeks, but last week's haul seemed to spoil a bit fast. I'm not really sure how ripe is too ripe for a kiwi, but the ones I had for breakfast this morning I ended up dissecting so much it was like starting with two kiwis and eating only one.
Oh! And mango is available now. Little yellow ones from the Philippines, and larger red ones (called "apple mango" apparently) from Mexico. I got really excited when I first saw them the other week. They don't really seem worth my money though, since most of the fruit is seed, but who knows. I may get a craving and cave. (I already pay ~300JPY for a pack of dried mango weekly so I guess I don't really have an excuse anyway.) And speaking of this fabulous fruit, check out the drool-inducing picture included with this article. Sorry, Deepa. ;-)
So yeah, I have food on the brain. I'm constantly hungry these days and eating more on a daily basis than I have all year (definitely more than I did when I arrived). Darren thinks it's because there isn't enough meat in my diet. I suppose that's possible. But then again, Darren eats only meat. :-P
Today I went to the grocery store. I had to; I was out of rice.
Cherry tomatoes (known here as "mini tomato") are available now, and man are they yummy. Last week I ate the whole 198JPY pack in one sitting, so this week I got a slightly larger pack (for the same price of 198JPY I think, the price of the smaller pack having gone down). I just ate 10 of them. I meant to stop at 5.
I also got some green beans. 198JPY for a fistful. Sad, isn't it? I really appreciate now what a pig I am at home when my mom puts a small mountain of them in front of me.
And I got a very small pack of okra (oh how I miss those big American bins of loose fruits and vegetables that you sort through and choose and take as much as you want of), which I don't prepare very well but figured I could handle for one meal. I don't know how my mother does it. I just can't get the seasoning and the consistency right. As often as not, it isn't just that they aren't as good as Mother's, it's that they're just not good. (Happy Mother's Day, by the way.)
Also picked up some bananas from the Philippines for breakfasts. There were some smaller ones from Taiwan as well, but they were more expensive. Go figure. My banana-taste can only distinguish two kinds of bananas. Those fat, squat, really awesome tasty ones people feed me in Assam that I for some reason call "man-eating bananas" and everything else. The Filipino ones will do for me.
I was doing kiwis (which are much cooler than the average banana) for breakfast the last two weeks, but last week's haul seemed to spoil a bit fast. I'm not really sure how ripe is too ripe for a kiwi, but the ones I had for breakfast this morning I ended up dissecting so much it was like starting with two kiwis and eating only one.
Oh! And mango is available now. Little yellow ones from the Philippines, and larger red ones (called "apple mango" apparently) from Mexico. I got really excited when I first saw them the other week. They don't really seem worth my money though, since most of the fruit is seed, but who knows. I may get a craving and cave. (I already pay ~300JPY for a pack of dried mango weekly so I guess I don't really have an excuse anyway.) And speaking of this fabulous fruit, check out the drool-inducing picture included with this article. Sorry, Deepa. ;-)
So yeah, I have food on the brain. I'm constantly hungry these days and eating more on a daily basis than I have all year (definitely more than I did when I arrived). Darren thinks it's because there isn't enough meat in my diet. I suppose that's possible. But then again, Darren eats only meat. :-P
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