Exotic Fruit

[Dannyalcatraz]

One for y’all to try: mayhaw jelly

I was given some a few years ago by a friend, and it’s been a pantry staple ever since. It’s kind of sweet/tart, like a good cranberry or citrus jelly, while still being its own thing. I’ve used it on sandwiches, on crackers with cream cheese, and served it as part of a charcuterie.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

FWIW, I put a link to this thread in the Cookin’ Agsin thread.

Cookin again

Tonight, I cooked a tasty dish for dinner... I chopped some green onion and put them into a shallow cassarole dish with a BUNCH of whole garlic cloves, a half-stick of unsalted butter, a splash of white wine and some black and red pepper. This was roasted in the oven at 350F. I started a box...

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[the Jester]

I just tried my sweet lemons, and wow, how appropriately they are named! No tartness; they basically taste like sugar water. Very nice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just tried my sweet lemons, and wow, how appropriately they are named! No tartness; they basically taste like sugar water. Very nice.

Which breed?

I'm waiting for my Meyer lemons to ripen (probably a week or two away) and I really like where they fall -- in between oranges and lemons, more sweet than sour.

 

[the Jester]

Which breed?

I'm waiting for my Meyer lemons to ripen (probably a week or two away) and I really like where they fall -- in between oranges and lemons, more sweet than sour.

Not Meyers- we have a tree of those, and they have a fair amount of tartness. "Sweet lemons" are a specific citrus cultivar, also called limettas. I believe they are a citron/sour orange cross, while Meyers are a cross between a citron and a mandarin/pomelo hybrid.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Not really exotic, but I learned this holiday season that if you freeze for 24+hours close-but-not-quite ripe Hachiya persimmons and then thaw them for ~24 hours or so, it completes the ripening process and more importantly removes that terrible pithy texture from the flesh

 

[Orius]

I'm just here for the durian comments.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Got a couple of red dragonfruit for the second time in as any decades. They were…OK.

I might try the yellow if I see them, but I’ve never seen them.

 

[General_Tangent]

Many years ago at Epcot during the food and wine festival I was able to try lingonberry ice cream and it was really tasty.

 

[the Jester]

Many years ago at Epcot during the food and wine festival I was able to try lingonberry ice cream and it was really tasty.

I haven't had lingonberries. What did it taste like? Was it similar to other berry types?