With the car still in the shop, Iretta was kind enough to drive us into town for a shopping day. This was mostly for groceries however we also needed to exchange an empty gas cylinder for a full one (the gas heats our stove and hot water). At the farm market we picked up some different items including freshly caught and cooked clam meat and a strange type of seaweed called sea grapes. They are little green clusters of bubbles slightly bigger than caviar. You just rinse them in cold water and serve quickly before they start to disintegrate. Neither Deborah nor I thought they had much taste; it was more about the saltiness and the soft crunch when you bit into them. You also need the right sauce, which may take some more experimentation.
We also picked up some “spinach,” which wasn’t really spinach. When we ask, the Fijian vendors at the market tend to identify any leafy green as spinach. What we actually bought was a huge cluster of what looked like clippings from a mature ornamental shrub with multi-pointed leaves the size of dinner plates. Marie ensured us they were edible and we’ve learned to trust her. In the end we found them to have a pleasant enough taste but they were a bit chewy. We might stick to the more spinach-like spinach in the future.
Sea Grapes in coconut milk_
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A little salad anyone?
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