Apples are the third best fruit

[Jeeebus]

Mango season is finally taking off (about a month late this year). These are mostly early drops due to high wind storms, but they are still delicious. Another couple weeks and we'll be swimming in mangoes on a daily basis.

 

[Jeeebus]

What's the cure for mango overdose? More mangoes? Seems legit. Any good mango recipes out there? I've done mango salad dressing/marinade, but running out of space here. Already frozen about 30 lbs of mango chunks for smoothies. I think this iguana has grown 10 lbs just gorging himself on mangoes.

 

[Kaido]

I've got some new blueberry recipes to try this year:

http://catch42.pbworks.com/w/page/109278436/Blueberries

The pick-your-own farms open next week, whoohoo!

 

[Carson Dyle]

Tuscan Style Cantaloupe

Oh my God. How have I never known about these things? I just had the best melon that I've ever eaten in my life. I've always seen these in the stores, with their distinctive ribs, and had been wary of them. They're so different looking than the variety of cantaloupe that I've always eaten.

WOW. Incredibly sweet and juicy. As a bonus, they have a small seed cavity and thin rind, so there's more meat to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDp2EijzCo

 

[Kaido]

What's the cure for mango overdose? More mangoes? Seems legit. Any good mango recipes out there? I've done mango salad dressing/marinade, but running out of space here. Already frozen about 30 lbs of mango chunks for smoothies. I think this iguana has grown 10 lbs just gorging himself on mangoes.

Have you done Thai coconut-mango sticky rice? That stuff is pretty dang good:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/04/how-to-make-ataulfo-mango-thai-coconut-sticky-rice.html

Mango Lassis are great for summer evenings (yogurt drink):

http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-diy-mang-21489

Mango ice cream: (in the blender!)

http://happyhealthymama.com/2016/06/5-minute-creamy-mango-ice-cream.html

 

[Muse]

Mango season is finally taking off (about a month late this year). These are mostly early drops due to high wind storms, but they are still delicious. Another couple weeks and we'll be swimming in mangoes on a daily basis.

When I was living on Maui and often had all the mangoes I wanted for free I several times made mango chutney. You can can it in jars for future use.

Last time I bought mangoes it was a large box of organic. I think they were picked way premature, they were super disappointing. Wish I lived where they just dropped all over on the ground. Avos too!!!

Apples will grow around here. I really should plant a tree or two.

 

[Jeeebus]

I'll try the mango ice cream tomorrow. I assume we can swap regular milk for coconut milk, right?

 

[shortylickens]

Mangos are awesome.

You people keep eating the wrong ones.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I wish berries weren't so bloody expensive. If I were rich I'd be eating raspberries, blackberries, blueberries year round. Most of the time you're looking at $4-5 for a 6 or 8 oz container.

One of the local grocery stores had blueberries on sale this week, $2 for an 18oz tub. Awesome: on cereal, with melon, in yogurt...

I'm in heaven this time of year.

 

[lxskllr]

I just learned my raspberries aren't raspberries at all. They're wineberries. It's an Asian trasplant, that's become naturalized over here. Still good, and better than the berries I've gotten from the grocery store. Blueberry harvest was crap this year. Probably from the cool, wet spring.

 

[Jeeebus]

For the next couple months, starfruit (carambola) is the best. They generally fruit twice a year (summer and winter), but the winter crop is by far the sweetest. We have 4 trees which is probably 3 too many. A single tree will produce several hundred pounds of fruit.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I've been getting my fill of McIntosh apples for the last month or two. My favorite apple. Surprising how hard they are to fine in stores in recent years. Only one of the grocers in town carries them and they'll be gone before the end of December.

And it's Cutie season. Love these little things. My favorite of all the mandarin oranges available fall to spring.

 

[lxskllr]

I've been getting my fill of McIntosh apples for the last month or two. My favorite apple. Surprising how hard they are to fine in stores in recent years. Only one of the grocers in town carries them and they'll be gone before the end of December.

And it's Cutie season. Love these little things. My favorite of all the mandarin oranges available fall to spring.

My favorite apple is the Winesap, and it's the same thing; only available in the fall. McIntoshes are pretty easy to get around here. They aren't everywhere, but the better stores have them year round. It's my goto "easy to find" apple.

I also like the Cuties. Easy to peel, and reliably good.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've been going crazy with pomegranates lately. They're a lot of work, but so good.

 

[MrSquished]

my family is from Cyprus, a small island country in the Mediterranean. When I've been there, which is about once every four years, the fruit there is amazing. One time we'd land and get a taxi ride back to my folk's house in the village near the capitol. Back when my grandma was alive and well she would have gone there and stocked the place with very few but a few treats. A cantaloupe or honeydew or both. And some Cypriot cheese. But that cantaloupe and honeydew were the most delicious things on the planet. It made the same products that I've bought in Northern NJ taste like cardboard and total ass. I remember having berries picked by my cousins earlier that day. They superseded any single berry I'd ever eaten back home in the states. So sugary and rich in flavor. Not even close.

I dunno how they have it in florida or california where fruits are grown there fresh and perhaps delivered to the grocery store fresh, but compared to the stuff I got back home in NJ it was total and utter garbage compared to the stuff I had in my little island country home.

 

[Chaotic42]

my family is from Cyprus, a small island country in the Mediterranean. When I've been there, which is about once every four years, the fruit there is amazing. One time we'd land and get a taxi ride back to my folk's house in the village near the capitol. Back when my grandma was alive and well she would have gone there and stocked the place with very few but a few treats. A cantaloupe or honeydew or both. And some Cypriot cheese. But that cantaloupe and honeydew were the most delicious things on the planet. It made the same products that I've bought in Northern NJ taste like cardboard and total ass. I remember having berries picked by my cousins earlier that day. They superseded any single berry I'd ever eaten back home in the states. So sugary and rich in flavor. Not even close.

I dunno how they have it in florida or california where fruits are grown there fresh and perhaps delivered to the grocery store fresh, but compared to the stuff I got back home in NJ it was total and utter garbage compared to the stuff I had in my little island country home.

If you can get local fruit right off the vine/plant, it's a huge difference. I grew up on a watermelon farm in MS and we had tons of various local fruits and vegetables. Freshly picked blackberries, still hot from the sun are amazing.

 

[Muse]

Dudes and dudesses:

Nothing is better than a great fresh apple. I got a bunch of Pippins from my sister's yard a few days ago. Scrumptious.

One more reason to LOVE apples: They keep so so so so so long in the refrigerator. A banana, when at it's ripe perfection (which lasts about 1/2 an hour) is great. But bananas are so so so so evanescent.

 

[PJFrylar]

Not much love in this thread for one of my favorites, papaya .

 

[Jeeebus]

Not much love in this thread for one of my favorites, papaya .

papaya fruits year round here. I have 0 planted. Cannt take the musky/vomit smell. Have tried lots of varieties... just can't do it.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Lack of fresh available fruit and vegetables is one of the few reasons I dislike living in the north. I can deal with the cold and snow. Jeeebus makes me jealous.

 

[Chaotic42]

Lack of fresh available fruit and vegetables is one of the few reasons I dislike living in the north. I can deal with the cold and snow. Jeeebus makes me jealous.

I definitely notice the lack of fresh produce here in Saint Louis. I miss living near a port.

 

[KMFJD]

Lack of fresh available fruit and vegetables is one of the few reasons I dislike living in the north. I can deal with the cold and snow. Jeeebus makes me jealous.

Newfoundland was horrible for this, even in the summer the selection was sparse and pretty crappie

 

[MrSquished]

I definitely notice the lack of fresh produce here in Saint Louis. I miss living near a port.

I live right near the Port of Newark NJ. Doesn't change anything. We have a large variety of produce year round but it's just not that great. Most of the time. Nothing beats living somewhere near the farm.

 

[Jeeebus]

good selection of fruit on the trees this time of year. carambola (star fruit), jujubes, and jaboticaba. Not a huge fan of the jujubes (tastes like a semi-bland apple), but fresh off the tree is ok with me. Could probably eat jaboticaba till I throw up.

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[Chaotic42]

I love starfruit. I wish it and kiwano was more ubiquitous and cheaper.