laurentia -- sheep eye vodka shots!! that's hardcore!
sorta like eating the worm with the tequila i guess
chapeaugris, thanks for the photo field trip to the farmer's market! WOWOWOW, so that's what porcini looks like? we only find it dried here, in little shavings! i will look harder for fresh,,, i absolutely love porcini.
the bread and herbs look wonderful too.... and those big bunches of radishes... mmm. we have farmer's markets here too, or that's what we call them, where they will close off a street and vendors set out their organic foodstuffs. mostly fruit and vegetables tho, honey, hand milled soaps, candles, etc.. but i've never seen horsemeat.
luckily, california is a great place to grow green things so we do have an abundance of great markets. also, the abundance of varying cultures -- mexican, chinese, korean, japanese (i looove our japanese market, they have the best KYOHO grapes, like a glass of wine in every grape!), armenian, indian, etc. -- make for some interesting food shopping.
oh. when i was visiting japan, we were served an elaborate dinner at a grand hotel and one of the tiny dishes contained a new type of sushi. chewy and red and raw and sort of grainy, almost gritty, and tasted metalllic. you were to swish it in a miso/soy sauce mixture, i think, before popping the tiny morsel in your mouth. anyway, i didn't like it and only afterwards did we learn that it was raw horse meat... a delicacy!
all i could think of was spaghetti and soda-pop -- not the food, the two horses my sister and i rode back home in colorado. haven't had it since, but i do eat other meats, so i can't altogether say horse is different from cow or rabbit or.. froglegs. lol. but you know what, ever since i got a pet rabbit, i haven't been able to bring myself to eat rabbit stew, even tho it was one of my favorite dishes in my younger days...
PS: i made the pumpkin/mango curry AGAIN... LOL. again with kabocha squash, and it's soo good. one squash two mangos. they don't even have to be fully ripe! once can of stock and one can of coconut milk, a good fragrant curry, a fried onion in some oil..... and this time i added corn that i'd shaved off from leftover cobs boiled the night before. it was good -- everything is sweet, the corn, the kabocha, the mango, and add to that the spiciness of the curry.. yummy. it's great over rice, a wonderful fall dish. i might add raisins, toasted coconuts, if i have some handy. i think even peas might be good in this. sweet peas, of course, or maybe snow.