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Post by rikita on Jul 3, 2013 17:55:21 GMT
mangoes. i want mangoes. i missed mango season when i was in kerala. i only ever had imported mangoes, never any really fresh ones.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 4, 2013 14:55:55 GMT
Bixa, they've arrived! I can't thank you enough for sending me the guanabana seeds - and in such a delightful little woven purse I see you marked some 'refrigerated' and some not. Was this to preserve them better? I am delighted to learn they can bear fruit in as little as two years! Even though it is winter here - well we have turned the corner already and heading for summer - I will be planting about 10 seeds to see if they sprout. Thank you once again for being so kind as to send them to me - I am overjoyed!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2013 15:12:05 GMT
Tod, it's a big fruit so after I ate some, I had to refrigerate the rest. I assume the non-refrigerated seeds might perform better, but who knows.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 4, 2013 17:29:25 GMT
Aaah! So those them pips(seeds) have a level of your DNA Bixa ;D Now I know they will spurt into action the moment the hit the ground tomorrow!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2013 22:39:03 GMT
I shudder to think what you might get -- slightly goofy plants with frizzy hair, maybe.
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Post by rikita on Jul 5, 2013 12:32:51 GMT
ate my first balcony tomatoes of the season yesterday!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2013 12:53:16 GMT
I bought three local Cavaillon melons (cantaloupes) at the Sunday morning market in Avignon and I can't wait to eat at least one of them, but my room isn't ready yet.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 7, 2013 21:44:22 GMT
Do I dare to eat a plum?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 11:51:18 GMT
CITRUS galore... Also, mega greens, mustard, collard, kale etc. I got a killer recipe for a brown butter Satsuma vinaigrette recently and will give it a go this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 17:12:00 GMT
I can never get enough citrus. Interestingly enough, on a daily cooking show on television here, I don't think I have seen a single day go by without limes being used either in a main course or dessert recipe -- either squeezed or zested. 5 years ago, I don't think you would ever have seen a lime except in a Mexican or Thai recipe.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 13:26:40 GMT
LEMONS coming out of my ears!!!! The opossums got almost all the blood oranges.....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 20:22:54 GMT
Can they climb trees?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2014 19:46:05 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Jan 18, 2014 20:43:15 GMT
Darn those tomatoes look wonderful. Isn't DC who complains about the tomatoes in Mexican markets? I wouldn't know a guanabana if it hit me in the head.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2014 23:20:34 GMT
Actually, I'm the one who gripes about that. DonC posted a pic the other day of the "criollo" tomatoes & said they were really tasty. I've been disappointed in those, but trust my fruit stand so will probably get some tomorrow. Fumobici, you'd know that something unpleasant had just happened if you were hit in the head with a guanabana. Those suckers are heavy, plus have little spines. The spines are rather soft, but still. Also, when the fruit is ripe, it's very smushy. So now you know those are the guanabanas on the left. avocados are in the middle, & on the right are mangoes. Right behind the guanabanas are chicosapotes. On the far upper left are pears that I'd bet money come from the US.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jan 19, 2014 0:42:23 GMT
We had to bin our few remaining tomates criollos, because they had pulpified in their plastic bag. I was hoping to make hard roll sandwiches of tomates criollos and quesillo (Oaxaca string cheese) to take on the bus to Mexico City tomorrow morning.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 19, 2014 1:22:57 GMT
It must smell so good grazing through all that fresh produce! A new produce store is being built on our end of town where I will be able to stop a few times a week when it opens. It will carry more choices than our grocery stores do, I am so eager for it to be completed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 30, 2014 19:11:49 GMT
That's great, Mich. Hope it thrives! These are now showing up around town. I need to ask the price to determine whether they're fully in season or not. Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote, is a species of tree native to Central America, naturally ranging from southern Mexico to southern Costa Rica. <-- snitched from Google. Common name, mamey (mah-may) farm4.staticflickr.com/3765/12224125835_55843bf590_c.jpg
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Post by tod2 on Jan 31, 2014 12:17:43 GMT
My how pretty that barrow load of mamey look! That must be the big dark seed in the middle? The closest looking fruit to that here is a 'spanspek' or canteloupe melon. Yes Bixa - I had a good look at those guanabanas! Like that they remind me of Breadfruit...Almost the same size too.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jan 31, 2014 14:27:26 GMT
Avocados are in season here. They cost $10-18 pesos a kilo, depending on size and condition.
Mandarinas (tangerines) are cheap, too. if I recall correctly, they cost $20 pesos for 2.5 kilos, and sometimes cheaper. I think we last saw them at 3 kilos for $15 pesos in the mercado of Pátzcuaro.
I have been juicing them like a loco.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2014 18:24:58 GMT
Yes, mandarinas & all the relatives are in abundance here, too. Avocados aren't yet at peak season. I imagine you all are getting the fabulous ones from Uruapan. Thanks, Tod. Yes, that's the seed, which is also used for all kinds of things, including cosmetics. They're not very cantaloupe-y in real life. The skin is thin, hard but brittle, and almost gritty. Somewhere on this board is a rather amusing exchange among Don Cuevas, Henning, & me, where DonC & I nagged Henning to try mamey. Couldn't find that, but did find a similar conversation. Starts at #38You made me curious about breadfruit & guanábana. I looked it up & although they seem to be related botanically, I couldn't find a definitive answer. I did find this: Cook's Thesaurus -- Exotic Tropical Fruit, and put the home page in the stickied Food & Cooking Resources thread (#51).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2014 10:22:34 GMT
CREOLE TOMATOES and the start of peach season. Also, coming soon. FIGS!!!!!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 21, 2014 17:34:16 GMT
Sweet little pineapples, sold from the back of trucks 3/$25 pesos. (They are not tiny pineapples, but probably weigh about 2 pounds each.)
Ears of both sweet golden corn and the usual, starchy white ones favored in México. The golden ones go for $4 to 5 pesos each. Oddly, the cheaper ones were sold from the back of a truck plying the local roads. The ones from the truck are "seconds" but still very good.
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Post by bjd on Jun 21, 2014 18:25:16 GMT
It's a pleasure to go to the market again -- after a short period when there were no seasonal fruit other than last year's apples and strawberries, these days we have apricots, peaches, nectarines and melons. Some from Spain, but quite a lot are local. Cherry season is pretty much over and I saw one guy still selling asparagus.
And the people I usually buy my vegetables from had the first good tomatoes, although I suppose they grow them in a hothouse. They taste wonderful though. Every year he plants some other old variety, so every year there is more choice of good tomatoes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 13:43:30 GMT
Oysters, Shrimp and Alligator all in season. I listened to a local food channel on the radio yesterday and she was interviewing an alligator hunter. The tail of the alligator is the "filet mignon" of the reptile. (I think I already knew this but had never heard it put in that context before). The belly isn't half bad either but needs to be marinated to tenderize it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2014 14:04:00 GMT
Pomegranates and Persimmons both ripening as we speak. The little citrus I have in the grove this year is slowly coming along. It's an "off" year, not just for me, but, just about every citrus grower I have talked to. Last year was my largest crop ever. There's going to be a lot of disappointed Yankees this year....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 19:49:20 GMT
I saw persimmons at the market the other day. I think they come from Turkey or Spain here. The pomegranates nearly always come from Israel but sometimes from South America.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 12:53:30 GMT
At the Farmer's Market yesterday; snow peas, fava beans, a variety of leafy greens, new potatoes, and strawberries. Also, crawfish and beautiful shrimp along with a variety of fresh fish.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 15:50:08 GMT
FIGS coming out of my ears!!!!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 27, 2017 12:34:15 GMT
I think I will be buying cherries shortly. The price is right and they say that the week of intense heat made them perfectly sweet.
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