Monday 1 November 2010

Autumn fare and...


Autumn, the season of mushrooms, new rice, sanma (pacific saury), chestnuts, apples, nashi, persimon, has arrived. Hiro's mother sent us a box of food the other day - mushrooms from their mushroom picking trips to the mountains, boiled chrysanthemum petals, rice from Hiro's uncle's rice farm and veges from the vege patch.
Mushrooms
Chrysanthemum

Halloween???
TUNA EYES!!!!!!
Not from Hiro's mother - seen at the local supermarket.
I kid you not - even Hiro was grossed out -
they were half price, so we weren't the only ones hesitating to buy.....
Halloween was yesterday, perhaps there was a connection????


3 comments:

Nakamuras on Saipan said...

Autumn....the thing I am looking forward to the most when we move. It's my favorite season. Even though we have been here for 30 years I always have "autumn" dreams starting the end of august...literally..OMG yeah....the fish eyes are just gross...just about as bad as a big pot of pigs blood here or "fresh organs".....absolutely gross. I couldn't get any of it down no matter HOW hungry I was.

Cecilia said...

Congealed pigs blood...

Yes....

The meal that still causes me the most trauma to think about was eating congealed pigs blood cubes and duck gizzard soup in China. I was staying at the home of one of my students - and her mother had gone to great pains to make it....

I ate it all... with a smile too... but still feel sick anytime I think about it......

Nakamuras on Saipan said...

Oh...you poor dear! You have a WAY stronger stomach than I do- I'm afraid I would have barfed all over the table....and then smiled.