fresh vegetables
I walked up to La Villa this morning to the market that happens every Wednesday and Saturday morning. There are a couple of fresh food stands, a place to buy household items, another for clothes and in spring and summer people sell plants and flowers.
This little collection of vegetables cost the princely sum of 7euro 20 centesemi – about $10 (Australian)
They look like something out of a magazine. So fresh and so cheap. Lucky you.
By: Naomi on March 5, 2011
at 9:24 pm
I think they were very inexpensive, and very good.
By: bagnidilucca on March 5, 2011
at 9:42 pm
Our Swiss friends commented on the high cost of food in Australia compared to their country when they were out here in November. Just did a big shop here to restock and cost $250.00, not even many fruit and veges, we top those up as we go.
By: Roz on March 5, 2011
at 9:55 pm
I think Australia has become very expensive for food in the last few years. It is much cheaper to live here than at home.
By: bagnidilucca on March 5, 2011
at 10:07 pm
Deb, that’s so beautiful, it looks like a still life! Especially the cabbage!
By: Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial on March 5, 2011
at 10:19 pm
I love those cabbages. I used one last week to make cabbage rolls – delicious.
By: bagnidilucca on March 5, 2011
at 10:35 pm
Must be the Finnish part in you to like cabbage rolls, I love them too. Infact anything with cabbage.
By: kirsi sade on March 5, 2011
at 10:39 pm
Perhaps it s my Finnish bit. They are popular in Italy as well, a slightly different version.
By: bagnidilucca on March 5, 2011
at 10:45 pm
That green vegetable is called wirsing in Germany. Lovely ccoked with a bit of bacon, nutmeg salt ,pepper and goes nice with a winter roast. Very healthy too!
By: Moira Drexler on March 5, 2011
at 11:46 pm
Here is is called verza – a bit similar really.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:01 am
Soup?
By: mary D on March 6, 2011
at 1:06 am
Good idea.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:01 am
Wow! I really don’t believe all that was so cheap! Veggies are getting expensive in New Zealand..
By: Lucy on March 6, 2011
at 2:38 am
I was amazed, that’s why I had to record it.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:01 am
Also a cost of about $10 US. And I bet those oranges were blood oranges? On a recent trip to the US I saw blood oranges for $1 each.
By: Martha on March 6, 2011
at 8:29 am
Yes, they are blood oranges and they are very good.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 8:49 am
don’t you LOVE that about Italy! those tomatoes are beautiful…it all is…what will you do with the verza I wonder??
By: The Daily Cure on March 6, 2011
at 10:20 am
I found a new recipe for stuffed cabbage just the other day, so I will try that.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:36 pm
How gorgeous. What a beautiful piccy. What a bargain! Hope you had a wonderful weekend lovely. 🙂
By: Anna Johnston on March 6, 2011
at 10:37 am
I think they were amazingly cheap. I went to the Carnevale at Viareggio to day – wait until you see the pictures.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:27 pm
What a haul! And what a price!
By: Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella on March 6, 2011
at 12:23 pm
I know, it is amazing. I think I would pay that for the tomatoes alone at home.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:25 pm
I’ve never eat the green one… what’s the name?
By: Prima on March 6, 2011
at 3:10 pm
That is a cabbage. Here it is called cavola verza and it is very good.
By: bagnidilucca on March 6, 2011
at 7:24 pm
If you haven’t tried the polenta fries from the meat truck at the back of the market, you’re in for a treat. Also, when buying vegetables the vendors are always happy to throw in a batch of parsley, greens, whatever they have, for soup making.
Can’t wait to get back there!
By: Diane on March 8, 2011
at 12:42 pm
I will look out for the polenta fries. They always give you something extra when you buy.
By: bagnidilucca on March 8, 2011
at 12:47 pm
So cheap, gosh, wish it was so here….
The first time I cut into a blood orange I tossed it away, obviously it had gone bad in a very odd way. Funny now, as I adore them.
By: cityhippyfarmgirl on March 12, 2011
at 9:18 am
The first time I saw blood orange juice I thought I had been given the wrong thing. I too, love them now.
By: bagnidilucca on March 12, 2011
at 2:27 pm