Playing with my Veggies

Inspired from the beautiful produce we have here in Mexico, I've been playing with making some fine art photos. Add in the glass dinning room table, the wrought iron chair and the nice bare neutral wall...and many hours pass by. Taken with my Canon 6D and processed with textures in Photoshop, lots of fun!!  I have more in the works :-)

Jicama

Peppers and Avocado

Baby Peppers and Tomato

Wednesday is Market Day

Fresh produce, a thing of beauty. In our little enclave of Puerto Aventuras, it's available Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8am to 4pm outside, right in the main center near all the shops. Which happens to be right next to our Villas Del Mar, fortunately for us as we carried home many bags. Twice :-)  Ian and his friends are coming back from their adventure tomorrow and we will have 4 more to feed. I'm excited about seeing them again and hearing about their travels and birds!

 Papayas are heavy, so are watermelon and avocados... humm, how much can I carry?

 I love baby bananas.

 Abundance!

Playing with food.

Gotta have a swim after all that shopping :-)

How many ways can you photograph a palapa?

Weekly Produce Market in Puerto Morelos

Once a week, on Wednesdays, there is an outdoor produce market in Puerto Morelos, but you need to get there early. Last week we arrived at 1pm and there wasn't much left. Today at 9am there were plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables to choose from, even though there is only one vendor. I assume most of the produce is local, but I don't know for sure. 

You'll find this weekly market on the sidewalk next to the church in the main plaza.

We filled 4 large bags with papayas, limes, tomatoes, baby bananas, potatoes, cilantro, black beans, tangerines and other goodies and the total came to 180 pesos. $13.88 dollars! Exchange rate is 12.97 pesos = 1 dollar.

 Baked goods by Barbara sold out of her car next to the market. I brought home some apple cake for Luke and Ian, gone in a flash, guess it was good :-)

Cute dog!

Food Shopping in Puerto Morelos

So where do you go for your food when there are no Stop and Shops around?  Having a full kitchen in our condo we like to use, the challenge is finding the food. Most Latin American countries have small one man shops scattered around town where you can get beer and packaged sweets, but fresh food and a big market are harder to come by.

In Puerto Morelos there's the local larger store in the square by the ocean, and that's fairly well stocked and walkable for us. We've been to the WalMart in Playa Del Carmen, and that's bigger than most markets at home, but a good half hour by car, and soon we won't have a car.

Across the main highway, in the old colonial part of town, there are a few more markets and that's where we went a few days ago.  Great selection of fruits and vegetables, if you can take the over the top music. From a block away you can hear the music blaring and while shopping we couldn't make ourselves heard, what a trip! Louder than any disco, wish I could show you loud in pictures.

 A beautiful and abundant assortment of produce!

 Champagne mangos, our favorite kind. 

 Only locals shop here, too bad I couldn't ask any questions because of the loud music. Can you tell who the American is?

 Back to our car. 

 Lunch nearby afterwards.

The chocolate shop where our Christmas cake came from, a popular place judging by all the gringos that were there.