So with the girls having too much schoolwork to leave the house, C and I decided to take another trip to Frankfurt. My neighbor had told me about a gourmet food market in Frankfurt called Kleinmarkthalle. We decided that we should go check it out. We decided to take the car and take our chances with parking. We got lucky and got a space a block away from the market. The market is quite a find. There are multiple meat stands that sell goose, duck, chicken, pork, veal, rabbit, wild boar, tripe, pig feet, etc. -- you name it and they sell it. There are also a number of Italian places that sell fresh pasta; Turkish stands that sell nuts, baklava, dates and other treats; Mexican stands that sell Goya products; and multiple fruit and vegetable stands. There are even several fish stands that I believe my grandfather would have given his seal of approval. (For those of you who did not know him, my grandfather owned fish stores in Brooklyn and the Bronx. After he retired he loved to go to grocery stores to check out the fish counters; on more than one occasion he told the people behind the counter that they should be arrested for the fish they were selling). We had a great time at the market. We even found fresh cranberries and shelled pecans -- neither of which are easy to find in Germany. We did buy canolis at the market as well. Grandpa would not have approved of those. They were not very good.
We went to lunch at a fish place down the street and made one of those ordering errors. We thought that we were ordering a bowl of mussels to share. We somehow ended up with mussels in broth and potato dumplings. Oh well, we shared it anyway. All and all, we had a fun day at the market. You know how we love food so you can be sure that we will return.
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| Note the blonde woman, she yelled at me for taking pictures. |
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