Journal zogger's Journal: What is this Mexican fruit? 16
Sort of biotech ask slashdot here. This is bugging me. I got this neat looking fruit at my local Hispanic grocery, and they told me what it was but dang I have forgotten. I think it begins with a C but could be wrong. I will describe it: About the shape and size of a very large avocado or pear, green colored, covered with little prickly spines. I need to know what it is, and how to eat it. The lady there said she boils it, but nothing much beyond that, as in how long etc, what it might be good with whatever. Thanks in advance if you can help me with this, I love trying new food but I would *like* to know what it is first. Last night we had plantains in a diced up pork roast casserole thing, it was pretty good. I want to do something similar with this fruit (maybe, might be better stand alone).
Guanabana (Score:2)
It sounds like a Guanabana [google.com]. Eat it like this [blogspot.com].
not exactly (Score:1)
It looks similar to those pictures, but not exact, and it doesn't have those large segments in the skin. The thing I have has a LOT more tiny spikes on it, almost like fuzz. The stem appears to have been at the narrower pointy end. It is around six inches long and four inches at the thickest point on the bottom and tapers to a rather blunt point, between an avocado and a pear, with the pear being the pointier end of the scale. The little spikes are like teeny tiny approx 1/8th inch or so long and there are
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Aaaah! Perhaps you mean a chayote [mangoandlime.net]. Yep, you boil those and add some salt. They can be eaten hot or cold and cane be had alone, as part of a salad or stew, or any way you like. I'm not a big fan, but most people seem to like them fine.
That's it! (Score:1)
Picture matches perfectly! How long do you boil them for now? And thanks for the reply again, now that I have seen it written I can remember the name. It's funny but they have the names of what I consider to be common fruit and vegetables spelled out over the bins, but the more exotic ones they don't, sort of reverse, but they cater to mostly the Spanish speaking market around here so I can see their point on that, although I wish they just did all the names and were done with it.
They are nic
Omnivores (Score:1)
I am impressed with the chickens, they are even more omnivorous than my dogs, which is saying a lot..the dogs eat stuff they find I don't even want to touch with two pair of gloves on...
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I stand corrected. There are various different ways to cook these things. See here [cdkitchen.com]. Boiling, if I remember correctly, works just like boiling pasta: just enough to cook it thoroughly but not enough to make it mushy. Looking at the recipes, though, makes me think baked or roasted is better.
Lookin good! (Score:1)
Ladyz is going to try the creamy herb baked one first. I am looking forward to it!
Eating report (Score:1)
Yum, yum, good! We had that recipe I mentioned previously. We went there again yesterday, I got around 500 lbs of veggie scraps from them! Filled up the back of my little truck to the top of the sides. Gave them some of our eggs back in neighborly trade and bought my newest "new food" thing, it is called a mamey sapote. The lady there said wait a few days for it to soften up some then eat it like a melon. Expensive little fruit cost 5 bucks for one! But considering how much chicken food I get from them, qui
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Five bucks for a mamey?? Wow, that's steep. Must be at least 7x the price in Mexico.
Mamey is a great fruit to make into a sorbet. If you're feeling up to it, it's really easy to make. Just adapt any sorbet recipe you find.
passed it along (Score:1)
passed along the sorbet recommendation to the skinny chef here (GF is runway model build, but cooks like a pro chef...)(I find both those attributes to be quite nice ;))
Anyway, in the scraps we get from the hispanic market, I found a chayote that was sprouting roots apparently so it is now planted in the greenhouse. We'll see what happens, I have several trees in there now. The fig tree makes fruit, but so far, no luck with getting any actual bananas (I wish I knew how to make them set fruit). We have some
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Wow! You're really looking ahead. I would probably kill for a tea bush or two. What a fantastic idea. Never thought about it, really. Must look into that. I definitely have the altitude...wow...how come I never thought of that???
My neighbour has a beautiful thermosiphon on his roof, but I've not interrogated him about it. Yet.
Morel comes from an old nickname: Morelos. [wikipedia.org] He was a hero in the war of Independence from Spain. He used to wear a bandanna to deal with constant headaches, apparently.
When I was younge
Hey thanks! (Score:1)
My education is seriously lacking in Mexican history, that was a nice short but informative article there.
My nick here is a longer version of a meatspace nick I had for a long time, zog, which comes from a Farside cartoon character, two cavemen, zog and thag. zog wears glasses and invents stuff in the caveman days, like "fire". I duded up as zog for an outside big block party on Halloween once, and when asked I replied I was zog, the intellectual caveman, which sort of fits my real persona, a
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Look what Zog do! And, yes, the late Thag Simmons, of thagomizer fame. I remember both well.
As to your other fruit, it sounds like a red papaya [biobeautybalm.com], but I'd imagine you know what that looks like. Are the seeds light in colour?
man that was a funny one! (Score:1)
with the stick and the piece of meat and the other guys with their hands in the fire grimacing! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Larson is my all time fav cartoonist. I once went to a natural history museum that was running an art show with a lot of his original works spread out around the exhibits.
The seeds in that big fruit looked black or some sort of dark color close to black.
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Well, it definitely sounds like a red papaya, then.