The feria was so much fun!

Thank heaven for Emilio! Keep in mind I was buying ingredients for a meal for 16. No cans, no frozen, all fresh. This is new to me with new recipes and new ingredients. Besides my red bag I had a nylon bag but what I really needed was a cart with wheels. Do you know what 8 sweet potatoes and 3 bags of carrots and 4 bags of green beans and a loaf of bread and 3 bunches of thyme and a bunch of chives and a bag of palmito and 3 rolls of ribbon and a coconut ball and two filled pastries and 2 packages of bells and 2 Christmas stockings weighs? Well, again, thank heaven for Emilio! He ended up carrying his bag and the red bag and I carried the nylon bag. Oh, and 3 bags of spinach.

The fruit I need I should be able to get here in town. Papaya, lots of lemons, Mandarinas and apples. Monday it will be another trip to Cartago. I have to get 3 chickens, ground sausage and bacon. I haven't seen any bacon since I got here. We are going to cook the chickens in the oven at the pizza shop. Mine is too small and it will leave mine free for other things or keeping things warm. I figure I will spend most of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning cooking and setting up the tables. I want to get some flowers. They had beautiful ones at the feria but I was afraid they wouldn't last.

Back to the feria. It was much larger then I expected and there was prepared food and meat as well as fresh fruit and vegetables. Everything looked so good and we had several samples. It was like sample day at the grocery store. I will definitely be going back.

I added two stockings to my assortment. I think I am going to use them to put my Christmas gifts in instead of wrapping paper.

I finished up packaging the tree branches together and tonight I will work on doing more bags of decorations. The item I am having trouble finding more of are stars for the tops of the trees. I may have to use sparkly flowers when I run out.

My two new stockings.

I was saying hurry up, these are heavy.

The radishes were really big.

One of the mysteries I haven't figured out is the green onions. It is only the green part, no white onion part. And the celery is not crispy. It is limp. I will cook the palmito in salt water and use it in the salad with the Mandarinas and red onion. 

This is cajeta that Emilio made yesterday. It is sweetened condensed milk, powdered milk and a little butter. A very good sweet treat. You cut thin slices. They were also selling it at the feria and we got samples.