"New" Fruits
 

I'm at the grocery store and I see these "new" oranges.. "Cara Cara" oranges.. $1.29 each.. Features include less acidity, tart-sweet, etc.. I try one just now... WTF? For starters, once the peel comes off the softball size thing, it's the size of a tennis ball. And it seemed no different to me than any 3 for $1.00 navel orange I get in Florida all the time...

So I get to thinking.. Has everyone noticed these 'new' fruits that keep popping up?

It started with the Rainier Cherries.. OK great. a yellow cherry that tastes like a plum.. WINNER.. Available three weeks a year.

Then we got the wacky new apples.. Fuji.. Pink Lady.. etc.. Whatever. They're apples. They don't fall too far from the tree if you know what I mean.

Have you had the White Nectarines? A home run.. And I have a great appetizer salad recipe for Bibb lettuce with white nectarine slices and blackberries on a parmesan crisp with a lime vinagrette, so the white nectarines are a winner...

There's others.. I can't even think of them all...

'New' fruits.. Kooky... And don't even get me started on the broccofleur...

Bykster...you are a man of many talents!! Fuji apples are the nuts....and Rainer cherries were a pleasant surprise!

I'd like to have some of what this fruit's havin...

Pants,

Is that a mango in your pocket or are you just happy to see her?

Another I could add, that I came across in the market in recent seasons, is donut peaches. Strange things, they are. The look like a flesh colored, rose toned hockey puck. And their flesh is white. And they do not have the same sweet flavor as that of the other summer peaches.

It's a taser. :D

There you go D-G.. I've seen those.. Who would eat one? And why? And what's up with 'star fruit'?

Also, shipped in during these winter months, small watermelons that are the size of cantalope or honey dews. Dark green, deliciously sweet and juicy inside with far fewer seeds. At $5.00 a piece, I still love them, though I love them better on sale.

Star fruit is useless, I had just as soon eat a rubberband. It makes a fine garnish adding to presentation in the better eateries; still beyond that, forget it.

I picked up some nice avocados thursday night and made some mean guac. Mmm mmm good.

Up in Toga we have those but the REAL hit is the YELLOW FLESH WATERMELON... Like juicy cotton candy. Unbelievable... And the jersey melons up here of course in late July-early August. I bring in a bushel of the watermelons and hand (jersey) melons to the Barbecue every week. I give them to the 'special guests' around the 'Cue... Especially the yellow watermelon. No one has ever seen them. Mustapha Fastok LOVES the damn things, and Nick Zito loves the cantelopes. I give him one whenever he heads back to the barn.

Pants, I can't eat avacados, they are way, way to fattening. Too rich, they'll clog your arteries, big time. Don't you be messing with to many of those. They'll hurt ya.

Everybody in Saratoga loves those!! And would probably line up anywhere for the ones fresh from the gardens.

No they won't. It's good fat.

Pants you keep believing that stuff, right up until you post your final photo. LOLOL

Heres another one I like to do with pasta. Have y'all seen broccolini? Smaller, thinner than the usual, thinner than most aspagarus.

Does anyone else here cook or go to the market except us three?

Sure thing, mom

MOM, BS, you're the one that's retirement age pants Pants.

From fruit to desserts, whats the best one you've ever cooked, ever pulled off, regardless how difficult. . . . and don't tell me fig newtons.

I make the best GPK's Kick Ass Quesadilla's this side of the Mississippi...:cool:

I love those Kev, just don't want loads of Pants' quaco on 'em.

I love talking about food, I did the gourmet thing for a long, long, time. The entertaining and all that jazz. Now, I don't have such opportunities anymore.

Such is life, though I still love good food.

Fuji Apples are about the best apples going I think. Crisp, sweet, juicy apples they are! But I wouldn't consider them to be new really. I've been eating Fuji's for about 5 or 6 years now.


When it comes to oranges, I just buy the biggest Navel oranges they have. Don't know if they're really new, but they've got some gigantic ones now.