I have found the occasional avocado at the larger grocery here, a treat in itself, made all the more so by the arrival of cilantro seeds and an abundance of spices and assorted nuts this week from friends in the states. I’m looking forward to raw favorites like green herb salad with parsley and cilantro, and perhaps even some guacamole. Add in the discovery of fresh ginger, and the raw life definitely gets more interesting again. It’s the little things.
Interim dietary favorites are a fruity cauliflower based couscous with cumin/cinnamon and red cabbage salad with apple/carrots/peppers/onion and an avocado/lemon/honey/celery seed dressing. Yum!
Along food lines, things I find intriguing… celery is sold with the celery heart ball at its base, and celery bunches are smaller with slimmer almost reed-like stalks. Raspberries and blackberries are here but very dear in price, peaches are excellent, as are almost any of the veggies, especially tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and potatoes. No blueberries, even as imports, though a variety of melons and squashes have begun making their appearance at the Friday market. Chicks, ducklings, and live chickens are sold there, the mature birds tied at the feet and carried home live in baskets by bicycle or on foot, their fate to be determined upon arrival at their new destination.
New “toy”:
I treated myself to a second bike basket, this one over the rear fender; between front and back baskets and backpack, I can almost do a “proper shop” as the Irish would say, and purchase everything in one trip versus planning multiple stages out and back by bike. Somewhere as I type this one trip nature of mine I can feel Mom smiling… as a kid I would haul garbage out to a burn bin all in one fell swoop, even if it meant going back and picking up the fallout engendered en route. It’s my “get er done” gene in action; that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Mini musings:
I find myself wondering what things will be like as the final teams come and go here and the remaining 50% of my stay is immersed in Hungarian ways and language. Methinks it’s time to put some concerted effort into linguistic learning, a proactive preventative measure to limit floundering (say all that fast three times
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