A very green lunch

mmm...a lovely chocolate cake from Geulin in Etretat (photo from November 2005)...you must visit this place. It's cool because they also have family in California and they make the same excellent cakes...

And now that I've got your attention and your chocolate fix is fixed I need some help.

Over at Becks & Posh (very well known food blog for food bloggers in the know), they announced a food/wine photography club challenge (intended I suppose for all of us food porn wannabees).Anyway, I signed up and you can see my efforts here. This link will take you to flickr and after that you're on your own (I always have such difficulty signing in). In any case my flickr name is "happylunching".

If you are interested you can post your green food photos too...it's a cool idea and you've got until 10 May to get your photos in. You'll get some good honest critiques on what people think of your work and some advice on how to make your photos better...

My actual lunch today was just a repeat of previously shown stuff, and I had such a stressful day I wound up feeling ill all afternoon...do bosses just plan for this sort of stress on purpose before a three day weekend? You tell me.

And so here is where I need some help. I'm posting two photos of some strange berries I bought in Belleville at the Asian grocers. Do you know what this Asian food item is?



Mysterious green berries and here's another shot:



thanks for any info on this and also, in other news I've found out that Paula Wolfert's fab recipe is on epicurious and to me that means public and so I'm on for it.

Starting tomorrow...Chicken with lemon and olives...

til then may all your lunches be filled with mystery!

Comments

[Yasu]

I looked for French raisin bread recipe and came to your webpage. The green stuff is a family of eggplant, eaten in North East India, Miyanmar. If you like Asian food, try to make it paste with garlic, Thai chili, and fish sauce.

[Emily]

Hi guys,

I went back to the grocer's today and mystery solved, these things are:

"Pea Aubergines: Thai name is Makreu Puang
These pea-size berries, which grow in small clusters, have a bitter flavour that is a good foil to the rich ness of the spicy curries in which they are most often found. They are also used as a flavouring for nam phrik."

I'll have to find a recipe...

[Dana]

At first glance they look like unripen longan berries, but a closer look at the smooth surface, could it be unripen asian apricots???

[dink]

Very nice photos at flicker--I particularly like the one that shows more of the rattan background--love the added texture and that one really highlights the many shades of green you have going ...nice contrast of size and shape too. I give it 5 stars *****
:-)

Do I know what that Asian food item is?
Nope.
Did you taste the green thingies? Or cut one open?

chocolate pastry=mmmmmmmm

[m.g. tarquini]

Oh. My. God.

I've no idea what the green beans are, but they are very pretty photos. But reference the cake.

Oh. My. God.