Photo by Kate Baggott
Can you guess which one is the ugli fruit? Not especially challenging, is it? We’ve gotten a bit carried away with the “let’s try new things” spirit of the Eating the Alphabet Challenge. So much so that going grocery shopping today was, well, expensive.
Sure, the quince jelly and 4 little lychee nuts didn’t set us back much, but the won ton pastry to make out Daikon Pot Stickers combined with the sesame oil, really added up. Luckily, we could only find one nectarine and were happy to share the ugli fruit four ways too (imagine a grapefruit without the zip). So, I think by sharing 4 pieces of exotic fruit 4 ways (we also ate the baby pineapple) we got 4 letters, but only one serving toward our daily total of 5. It was, though, a very interesting serving.
[...] Food does and should, link us to our culture, to our families and traditions. A piece of fruit, picked very green and shipped from Jamaica, really doesn’t do anything for my sensory memory. The canned vine leaves just made us mourn Nadka as if we lost her last week instead of last year. While trying the ugli fruit was interesting, it’s not something I want to eat all the time. [...]
Kerri – Thank you. It’s a classic still life of exotic fruits composed on our kitchen table.
Kim – Yeah, I used to live in Toronto’s Chinatown. For the record, unless I find a Jerusalem artichoke here in Germany, I am going to start calling dragon fruit jack fruit…
Kelly- The ugli is the grapefruit-tangerine cousin. It is edible, but not delicious. We’re going to open the pomegranite to eat with our pancakes and quince jelly…
Sorry but I thought they were all edible looking. But the again, I like most all fruit anyway. Have you seen the pink fruit yet?
They look pretty appetizing to me…have you ever seen a Durian…now that’s funny looking:).
There’s that gorgeous photo! Yum.
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