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Sat Jun-25-05 04:04 PM
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peaches, cherries, blueberries, nectarines, strawberries!!!! |
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it's Saturnalia! I love summer and its plethora of fruits! Who's with me? Fruit bacchanal!
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:06 PM
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We just got back from the downtown Portland Farmers' Market w/ fresh local Oregon strawberries (the BEST!), local cherries (my favorites!) and some other veggies, bread, etc. Yum. I love summer fruits and veggies -- especially fresh peas out of the pod!
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:08 PM
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Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 04:08 PM by tigereye
great! I know there are lots of goodies at the local farmer's markets. I could just live on blueberries, corn and homegrown tomatoes! :hi:
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:07 PM
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2. Mmmmm...mangoes, papayas, star fruit, kiwi, pineapple, spanish limes |
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I'm with ya...even down here in the tropics!!
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:08 PM
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starfruit! Spanish lime.. how does one eat that, or use it?
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:38 PM
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11. Spanish limes are delicious...they are kind of like lychee nuts |
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A bit smaller than a golf ball. Green hard skin that you crack open. The flesh is sweet/sour, with the texture of a concord grape. Very tasty. Large pit. I've only eaten them. Never had them cooked or jellied or anything like that. I am eating a mango right now. They have come into season, and like tomatoes, when they come into season, EVERYBODY is giving them away before they go bad. Delicious!
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:06 PM
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15. That sounds like ginnips.. I miss them sooooo much |
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Used to eat them like MAD when I was a kid in Panama.. We knew all the best trees to climb and get them.. the monkeys loved them, and would try to get to them before we did.:)
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Sat Jun-25-05 07:10 PM
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21. Did you put the whole fruit in your mouth and crack the skin with your |
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teeth, suck the fruit out and then spit out the skin? We used to say we were sucking eyeballs because of the size and the texture of the fruit. :) There are only private trees left in Key Largo because the fruit isn't sold commercially, but once in a while I can find them at the flea market fruit stand.
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Sat Jun-25-05 08:08 PM
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23. Yep.. a leathery green pod...about the size of a shooter marble |
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Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 08:10 PM by SoCalDem
they grow like grapes in clusters.. the inside fruit is slimy and on a large pit.. It has the consistency of gum if you continue to chew it..
I found them as an adult when we went to Jamaica. We had a villa and a car and were there for 2 weeks, so we had lots of time to wander. I found them at an open-air market and bought a bunch of them. As we walked down the street, strangers would pass us and say.."Ginnip, mon?"and grab a few as they passed..
We had to buy some more on the way back to our place.:)
My husband (never out of the US until that trip) said they were the weirdest things he ever atr..
My mouth is watering now:(
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:11 PM
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5. Oh that reminds me - I should go to the farmer's market tomorrow. |
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:19 PM
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8. take a tent and camp out! |
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:11 PM
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6. I've got a great stawberry crop this year... |
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it's been going strong for a few weeks now...yum
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:20 PM
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9. I am sure that yours taste much better |
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than the ones that you get at the store!
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:04 PM
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They're organic, and oh-so sweet!
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:16 PM
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7. We just finished off our cherries |
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they were great! Fat and juicy and sweet. We still have strawberries going gonzo and blackberries are starting to come ripe. Berries are so good for you too.
I can't wait for my first tomato, though. That's the highlight of my garden every summer, I think.
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:22 PM
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I think I'm going to have to get some strawberries tomorrow when I go to the store! :)
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:48 PM
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12. Local New York strawberries from the farmers market. |
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Sat Jun-25-05 04:51 PM
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13. Oh, I have to drive down to Powell Butte to check on the blackberries. |
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Free eats. Great pies.
Thanks, tigereye. I'm so dead to the world I need reminders of what happens in summer.
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:13 PM
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"I'm so dead to the world I need reminders of what happens in summer.":P
Don't know why but that cracked me up...our blackberries are not ripe yet but I can't wait! Maybe a few more weeks....then cobbler, pie, preserves, maybe even som homemade blackberry ice cream..Yummmmmm
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:26 PM
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18. Alas, pathetic but true. |
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I picked a bunch of blackberries one summer and took them to my dad in Montana. He's a Missouri boy, and he also used to pick a ton of blackberries in the undeveloped suburban parts of Northern Virginia. Blackberries don't grow in north central Montana.
I baked a cobbler, and have never seen his eyes light up so much as when I brought him his bowl.
Anyway, enjoy your blackberries. I'm going to be serious about it all this year.
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:33 PM
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19. You have dad in Montana? |
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Is he cute? Single? Can he drive a tractor? ;)
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:39 PM
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20. He used to be cute, he's married, and he's done driving tractors, |
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but thanks for asking and for the winky.
He was quite the macho gringo in his day.
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Sun Jun-26-05 10:20 AM
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your sig pic and the image of baking pies. Wonderful cognitive dissonance. You're a Renaissance man, my dear?
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Sun Jun-26-05 12:40 PM
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28. I think nowadays the term for "renaissance man is" the rather |
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protracted "jack of all trades, master of none." And in truth, I should have left that cobbler in the oven for about 10 more minutes, but the berries were the true objective and they tasted good, particularly with the ice cream.
I don't feel too bad about the underdone cobbler. Benvenuto Cellini could never leave anything in the oven long enough either.
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Sat Jun-25-05 07:48 PM
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22. I think it's a little early for blackberries here in Oregon |
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late July, August, then you're in business. :P
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Sat Jun-25-05 08:42 PM
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Sun Jun-26-05 07:25 PM
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31. You know what else is good? |
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Fresh blackberry shakes from Burgerville. My sister visits from Cali in summer and she's always jonesing for those shakes.
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Mon Jun-27-05 07:03 AM
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I'll have a basket of those Walla Walla Sweet Onion Rings and a Blackberry Shake, in the unlikely event I am able to time it right.
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Sun Jun-26-05 10:19 AM
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25. what do you live in a cave? |
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;)
got to go into the light, man....
I love blackberry pie! Damn. I made a really good peach-blueberry pie for 4th of July one year. mmmm.
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Sun Jun-26-05 12:41 PM
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29. I bet you get blackberries in Pennsylvania, |
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don't you?
Are you going to make peach-blueberry pie next weekend?
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Sun Jun-26-05 07:06 PM
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Raspberries and blackberries grew ,and still do, in the backyard when I was a kid. Maybe I will make a blackberry pie instead. How can it possibly 4th of July already, though? :(
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Sat Jun-25-05 06:06 PM
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16. I bought beautiful strawberries at the farmers market today.... |
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And just had an incredibly good hothouse-grown tomato with dinner. Can't wait for the heirloom tomatoes at the place where the people have an organic farm about 120 miles SW of Chicago. It's a sort of farming commune populated with old farts who remember the 1960s and 1970s.
:D
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Sun Jun-26-05 10:21 AM
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27. strawberries are the best |
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my son can eat them by the bucketful!
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