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.
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| Mushrooms |
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| Chrysanthemum |
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| 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???? |
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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.
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......
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.
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