Nata de Coco, that is!!
Anthony had the pleasure of going to an Asian grocery store on Friday
with his team, and he remembered my guilty, terrible pleasure:
gelatin coconut cubes in sugar water.
When we lived in Los Angeles, my favorite mom & pop grocery store
(Marina Farms, for those who live there - it's near Lincoln and Jefferson)
stocked these chewy little gems
and I remember distinctly a few months where they had none-
I think I may have been the reason they restocked,
if just to stop me from asking when they might be in again
each time I went in for onions or pomegranates.
Today has been a tough day on the stomach, and so I filled a cheerful glass
full of ice
and spooned a few cubes of the opaque delicacy, waiting five minutes or so for
a supreme drop in their temperature,
an extra firmness in their bite...
They were delicious and refreshing
and just as weird as I remember them to be...
More than anything, I love that Anthony saw the big jar and thought to bring them home to me - he's sweeter than coconut gelatin in syrup.
What's your weird food love?
xoxox,
Allisunny
9 comments:
That looks and sounds delicious! I used to live right around the corner from Marina Farms - such a great little market!!
My comfort/queasy stomach food is a cold can of mandarin oranges.
Jennifer - right??? The world is so small :)
Oooh, your comfort food sounds delicious!
I am boring...chocolate...just chocolate....
but
its gotta be the good stuff!
I've never seen that before, but it looks yummy!
Kerin- chocolate cures all ills, lovely one - you know this xo
Liz- oh but they are :) xo
Well, I don't have anything quite as interesting & different, I suppose my old stand by for strange cravings are olives, green, Kalamata, oh really any kind, even stuffed olives...yep, boring, I know.
oh lordy, I'd eat these delights for sure... they remind me of a great comfort-craving of mine for tapioca pearls (balls of chewy tapioca deliciousness) in a strong brewed roasted green tea - cold of course. Oh... I'm yet to find such delights in paris/france. I've been trying to convince Alex on a train trip to London so we can get some...
I LOVE that mug! Something out of that would cure all that isn't right. I have never heard of those odd little jiggly cubes before! Right now I'm savoring ice cold organic grapes. They're so delicious it's like eating candy.
Kelly - no, not boring at all: Lucques Olives are a bit of a savory lifesaver for me :)
Emily: if you lived near I'd take you out for tapioca balls: I used to work at a place in Los Angeles that specialized in boba drinks, as they called them: sublime months, those were :) xoxoxox
Tasha - oh YES - cold grapes, even better they're organic!! A missive flies to you today :) xoxoxo
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