...and we were back today! We found foods that simply aren't available in the local Southern California grocery stores, and we feel as though we've struck gold! If you like to shop in "foreign grocery stores" as I do when we travel, here were some of my finds:
Left & around the top:
Peruvian toasting corn...doesn't pop fluffy, but has a nice crunchy corn taste when it puffs up. (Think "Corn Nuts")
Ceviche...*when* I can find this, it's at a boutique grocery at a premium price. It's made of fresh white fish + tomatoes, onion, cilantro & jalapenos & soaked overnight in a lime and vinegar mix. I can easily eat that container in one sitting, and oh my it's good!
Those tasty crunchy wafer cookies...Found them in Mango & guava flavors!
Guava juice...mixed it 1/2 & 1/2 with fresh squeezed orange juice... A taste of Heaven!
Center back...Mini corn tortillas...hot from the oven...60 for $1.99
On the basket are
Guava Paste...I quested for this for years! it pairs beautifully with cheeses and crackers. My Lunenburg friend from So Africa has me bring her back pounds of it!
The cone is solid brown sugar... I had to buy it because I wasn't sure what it was...and I'm still not sure how I'd use it, but to nibble on it! I also found "hard-sugared" pumpkin, sweet potato and coconut. I can't begin to tell you how good a slice of those are!
On the tray, *huge* avocados, 5 (weighing 4#) for $5... we'll be having guacamole with Mexican food tonight! (The smaller light green avocado is from our tree. They're smaller this year (or we're picking them early) but they're SO plentiful!)
Yellow fruit are guava...a childhood favorite and fabulous in smoothies! We have three trees of them with so much fruit, most is thrown out. Of course that all happens while we're in NS, so I had to have some this year! (9/$1.50)
By the pelican, Mangos 2/$3 Haven't found them so large and so perfect before now!
There's also a crispy pastry...four, actually...in the plastic bag. Basically puff pastry with cinnamon sugar, so tasty and crunchy...
I just had to share and for myself, I had to save this information! Much as I love Lunenburg, I'm going to have to make do for 6 months with what I can carry back in a suitcase!
The tortilla factory in the grocery is here
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