MARKET FRIDAY: BUYING TOMATOES, RED BELL PEPPER, SPINACH, ETC
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There are a lot of fresh foods in the market lately and all thanks to abundance of rainfall that we have been experiencing for some months now. Rainfall is a big blessing to farmers and their produce as well as we the consumers. I went to the market to buy the ingredients I would need to prepare meals over the weekend after work so that I wouldn't have to go to the market tomorrow.
It was quite late before I got to the market and it was almost the rush hour when the market would be closed for the day but I was still able to purchase the few things in my list. The market closes by 6pm and I left my shop at about 5pm, and it took some minutes before I got to the market. And before I even got the right spots to buy what I needed most of the shops have started packing their goods but nevertheless I was still able to tick all my boxes.
I have the plan of cooking vegetable soup (efo riro) and fish stew, which is the most important part of my list. So, I had to quickly locate tomatoes and pepper sellers with fresh and big ones. I bought the quantity that I needed which amounted to about #1,200, that is, the combination of tomatoes, scotch bonnet and red bell pepper. Afterwards, I bought some onions as well which is also sold by the same person.
Then, I quickly dashed to the person that is selling vegetable leaves before he will close. The preffered leaf for the soup I want to cook is spinach but there are times when I combine it with water leaf or pumpkin leaves. But this time around I feel like cooking it without adding any other leaf. I approached the man with one of the freshest set of leaves - I'm very particular about the freshness of foods. He sells each for #50 but I was able to negotiate for three for #100. So I bought nine for #300.
Then he sliced them all into the desired size that I wanted.
Thank you for your time lovelies.
The post is originally written by me 💕@debbie-ese💕
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