As I mentioned in my last post, I love the Green Bazaar. I'm becoming more bold with my camera, and liking the results. Here are just a few snapshots from today.
This babushka is out every weekend with her dried fruits.
This guy was out last weekend, which was the first time we saw him. He's selling honey from his trunk.
We "discovered" a new aisle in the market last week (it's not new of course, we have just been overlooking it) and have a new fascination for it's products. We'd seen new meat products when we went through last weekend, but this weekend we were offered samples, which we happily accepted. Most of the meat products (aside from the packaged sausages in front) are horse. We sampled a few different kinds of smoked and cured kinds, many similar to jerky. The pink things on the left are a horse jerky with a 1/4 inch thick coating of some crumbly concoction. I asked if it was salt, and she said no, and explained what it was. The only words I recognized from her description were "natural" and "grape". Whatever it was is was peppery and quite good. We bought some uncoated jerky to eat for lunch during our upcoming ski trip.
Beef sellers don't usually have ground beef on hand, but there is a grinder somewhere in the market as we discovered last year when we asked for ground beef. We chose a cut, the man pieced it and carried it away from his stall, off the main floor of the market, and came back with it ground. We were asking this man for the same thing (and we know the word for 'ground'), but this guy was not working with us. After a few attempts of communication, when we thought we'd finally gotten through, he pieced our meat, put it in a bag, and handed it to us. However, as a result, I discovered I can use our food processor to make something similar to ground beef.
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