Wow, amazing foods, and fantastic farm shop! When we arrived in Toulon, south of France, it was nearly 3pm(i think). I was already thinking about what to eat for dinner. (which is quite normal for me....thinking about food all the time.) I suggested Marcus if we could pop in to green grocers to get some vegetables and fruits. I always get excited when i imagine myself in local shops, choosing vegetables, smelling just baked bread, looking at pretty fresh products and buying them. When we picked up our hire car at the airport, driving off to La Croix Vamier, we were talking about which shop to go. Then Marcus saw a sign for a farm shop. (I'm sure the farm shop was quite near to the airport.... ) Sounds good...Farm shop, by then, I already started thinking about which veggies to buy........ about 5-10mins driving from a roundabout, we found rustic farm shop. We parked our car in the car park there, when i opened the door, I saw....a fig tree! Of course, Marcus and I scrumped some figs.(we had them later, and they were delicious!) This farm shop even had spring water tap! Oh, it reminded me of beautiful Greece! They had all sorts of freshly picked herbs to marinated olives, organic wines to local extra virgin olive oil! They all looked wonderful, I wanted to buy the whole shop!
We bought some figs too. They were lot cheaper than ones we get here in England. Sure, we made the most of it, we ate lots! (like amount of cherries we ate when we were in Greece. we ate load of them too!!!)
Look at the sweet potatoes! they all look very rustic, none of them shape the same!
Beautiful french garlic. We bought one, and tasted fantastic!
Lots of pumpkins and butternut squash. Never seen so many!
these were what we bought (part of...). look sooooooo pretty♥♥♥
As far as I can remember, we paid around just over €25 including a bottle of extra virgin olive oil. We bought locally grown products possible all though our stay in south of France. Dark local grapes were €4.99 for a kilo, green prumpy Italian grapes were €2.99 for a kilo. We thoroughly enjoyed eating local grapes!!! On 3rd day, we went to Cavalaire(next town to where we were and very touristy place) for our food shopping. Then we found...cute green grocers!
Colours there were beautiful, again, they had loads of local products and surprise, surprise, they had "kaki"(sharon fruits). Marcus told me how amazing French kaki was. Here they were, I was finally able to taste! They were very big and ripe, reminded me of ones I used to eat when I was in Japan. Kaki is very Japanese, I remember when I was child, my granny( my mum's mum in Fukushima) used to make dried sharon fruits. I remember looking at them thinking what ugly things they were and scared to eat. I think it was my granny made me eat my first dried sharon fruits, and tasted sooo yummy and sooo soft that I ate loads. Do you know what happened next? I couldn't keep away from the toilet. I did similar thing with satsumas. My brother actually felt really ill by eating 1 massive box of satsumas with me. I was fine, but he was really ill for a few days. Anyway, this green grocers was the only one who had beautiful sharon fruits. Of course we went back every couple of days to get the fruits for our breakfast. When they are in season, I normally get from my local supermarket in town which sells bland and tiny sharon fruits. Skins are too thick, never really go ripe and too small for the price!!!!!!☹ That's why it's wise to make the most of opportunities I get . That my motto anyway.
I can hear figs and the kaki are saying.."norie, eat me! eat me!!" Yum Yum♥♥♥
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