Tianguis

I often mention the "tianguis." In fact, you will find that my latest postings center on food. This has been a large part of our experience here, so Josh and I found it worthy to document today. All photos (minus the one below of course) courtesy of Josh.

One of our first stops each Sunday... these are mini pancakes filled with fresa (strawberry), chocolate or cajeta (caramel).

Fairly lackluster... just buyin' trash bags (bolsas para basura).

I have the hardest time passing up these little cacti. I am really into mini things. And the fact that these were actually grown here is a plus.

Okay, this photo is probably grossing you out. Relax. It's mole (rich sauce made from chocolate and peppers for cooking with chicken, etc). In this photo I guess that I am thinking really hard about the mole. We bought some of the fourth one from the right and hope to cook it up with chicken this week.

The mole lady also sells mantequilla de cacahuate (peanut butter). Yes!

Where we bought the chicken to go with the mole

2 x 8 translates to 2 kilos for 8 pesos, or the equivalent of about 70 cents

This was the only stop where the vender was not happy with us. This was because we did the touristy thing where we stopped and took a photo and did not buy anything. But would you buy cuerito (pig skin)? Angie and Pete need not reply.

So much Mexi music and mucho pirated DVD's always to be found

Josh was really artistic with this photo...

Mandarinas. Okay... 3 kilos for 10 pesos. Roughly 90 cents. Upon looking at this photo I wonder why we didn't buy any today?

Every Sunday we purchase gorditas. This is a tradition we happily inherited from our friends Angie and Pete. For more info on gorditas, scroll down to last Sunday's blog.

After hitting the gordita stand, we stop for fresh-squeezed juice.

Jitomates (tomatoes). We have eaten so many we're sick of 'em.

Our friend Leon, the plant guy. He is always so talkative and kind. And he likes to try out his English as he lived in Toronto for a spell.