A Small Market in A Small Town

Today is #MarketFriday initiated by @dswigle (Denise, of course!). This is a loved challenge and an example of how to initiate and support such a thing ... thanks to Denise.

My adventure away from home in the city of Iasi continues ... Continue with a trip to a small town in the north of the country, more than one hundred miles away from Iasi. The city is called Falticeni and is known in Romania because many important people for the country's culture were born here or lived here. I am referring to a century ago ... now no more important people are born in the world, unfortunately.
The reason for this? To see my mother who is eighty-five years old, to see my brother and grandchildren, to see the places where I grew up. If anybody was interested, I posted here about all of this: Week Two Of The Eight - On The Road Again

Every time I come home to my relatives, of course, they expect us with many goodies, they have prepared good food but they want also to cook for them. It's one of my pleasures! That's why I have to go to the market.

Falticeni Central Market

Falticeni's central market is a large and full market. All fresh and very appetizing.

There are a lot of sellers with a very varied products. Unfortunately, they are struck by the same mischief of people being photographed. That's why I have only a few photos taken with the smartphone, the quality of the photos being very poor, I had to post only a few.

That's all that I could photograph from the market. Just tell you what I bought: fish; vegetables; cheese, butter and sour cream, and most importantly ... forest mushrooms! Our target was these mushrooms that we find only in this area, in the hilly and mountainous area with mixed forests. The luck was that this July rained very much and favored the growth of mushrooms.

Hribe or Boletus?

These are delicious mushrooms, they are my favorites. Sometimes I picked myself out of the woods but now I didn't have time, I bought them out of the market.

That's what I cooked with great pleasure in my mother's little kitchen.

Hribe with sour cream

Ingredients: 2kg of hribe; two onions; oil, salt, pepper, sour cream and parsley.

The hribes are cut into pieces, the onions are cleaned and cut into smaller pieces as well. Put the onion on fried, with a little oil, in a large skillet. The onion just needs to be soaked and colored in yellow.

After the onion has soaked (we can help if we add very little salt and a little hot water) put the mushrooms on top and let them crack (boil in their own juice).

It's very hot in the small kitchen, I will open the window to the garden. Fortunately, it rains a bit and gets a little cool out in the kitchen. The greens rest my eyes! There are raspberries.

While mushrooms fry slowly I cut parsley into small pieces and then mix it with mushrooms (when they are fried and soaked)

I forgot to tell you that parsley is picked from the garden by my nephew Stefan. The best parsley I could have!

Two of a hit!

I forgot also to tell you that some people prefer only the mushroom stew and others (my wife) prefer ciulama (mushroom with sour cream). That's why my mushroom food is split into two distinct dishes.

1. Mushroom Stew

We divide the mushrooms into two equal parts. One part remains in the pan and the second part in a saucepan.

Mix the mushrooms from the pan with parsley, add salt and pepper and ready, the stew is ready.

2. Ciulama (mushroom with sour cream)

Put over the mushrooms in the saucepan sour cream, salt and parsley. Boil only a few minutes and the food is ready.

In this way, I managed to make two kinds of food from one preparation and thank everyone.

I can prove that everyone was pleased with the outcome of my work!

From the youngest...

...to the oldest!

Even the sky, the sun and the rain wanted to give me something because I went back to the places where I grew up.

Hey Denise, do you like mushrooms? Wanna trade? Mushrooms for lobsters? Thank you!

Thanks to those who have had the patience and curiosity to read this post. I'm offering you a flower from my mother's garden!