Friday is Feria Day!

It is Friday and Friday means Feria!

What is the Feria?

Feria is Spanish for Fair, but in this case it stands for the market or farmers market,

It is on Fridays where all the farmers, produce people, bakers, cheese makers, fish mongers and butchers come and sell their goods. AT a very reasonable price I might add.

If you are someone who loves fresh fruits and vegitables, then this is the place for you.

What Makes Atenas Different?

Atenas, the city where we live,  was named the most friendliest climate in all the world by National Geographic. We literally live in perpetual springtime 365 days of the year.

Because it is perpetual spring, we have a LOT of fruits and veggitables that grow year around, where in the U.S. they only grow during the spring time.

We have papaya, pineapple, mango, passion fruit and many sorts of citrus. Interestingly enough, we do not have the comon yellow lemon down here. For some reason, it does not grow here.

Here I am checking out some Star Fruit - yea, it grows here.

One of the neat things about feria day is that you get to see friends. Today we ran into John & Pat. In fact we pulled up the same time they did. We caught up on how each other are doing checked some things out together, then we got to business of shopping for that coming week's food.

 

Here we have apple bananas, yep, they have a apple taste. I personally think they have more of a berry taste. No matter what, they are great tasting. Once you have tried a tree ripened banana, you will never eat a store ripened again.

 El Toledo Coffee - I have to say some of the best coffee in the world. I just opened a bag of light roast and the flavors are out of this world. I never knew coffee could be this good. IF you come down for a visit, we will take you to El Toledo. You will fall in love with the coffee as well.

 These long brown things are Yucca. You eat them like you would potatoes. The are really good and in most restaurants, when you think you have potatoes, you are actually eating yucca.

Yes, the watermelon is that red. In fact a deep ruby red and they are really sweet to.

This is the stall where I buy my mangos. They have a pretty good selection. The key is to buy some fully ripe, some not so ripe and then some that need time to mature. This way you can have mango everyday like Tracye and I do for our breakfast fruit salad. 

Yep, one of the advantages of living where it is always springtime. Incredible fruit and veggies.