What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2023)?
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It's suddenly green garlic season. Bought a bunch today at a farmers' market, which I'll stir fry with egg to make the stuffing for steamed dumplings.
I used to buy Fuji apples. My ex-wife loved them. Then I tried Honeycrisp, and was converted.
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I haven't heard of that one. Fuji are expensive but I spoil my wife.we have orchards 15 mins away.
Braeburn figures quite high.
I'm not one for apples etc, except apple crumble.
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We also have a new yellow melon, it’s only been in the main markets for a few summers, which for some reason is called “happy melon” or “sunshine melon” or anything really, like we can’t decide.
Honey Dew is much more rarely seen than the “cantaloupe” (is that French?) and it’s got green flesh and a very pale green smooth rind.
Water, rock & honeydew.
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I love honeydew melons. They are a bit harder to find here, but I can get them. Once again, you have to get them when they are in season and ripe.
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Yyp, me too. I like apples in tarts, crumble, pies, etc. but not fresh apples or applesauce. I don't hate them but would rather have berries and such.
That it melons are going on the shopping list.
I have to stay off this site until I've been shopping, theres no way I can fit all the stuff on the list on the back of my bike
I have to stay off this site until I've been shopping, theres no way I can fit all the stuff on the list on the back of my bike
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There is an Asian grocer that does a fruit salad that is just melons, papaya & dragon fruit. So good.
Yes please!
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Was a fabulous train breakfast. We had a 3 hour journey and took coffee, fruit salad & pork buns.
Well jelly on the trains here they have a paltry cart that makes airlines look good and even then on the longer journeys theyre available for its often suspended or only available for 1st class and the concessions close to the stations are mostly rubbish!
We’ve had those the last couple of years, and I think they’re also called sunshine melon here, but they’re a specialty item - they’ll have a few, then they’re gone.
Honeydew is as common as cantaloupe here, but much harder to find a ripe one, it seems, unless you make sure to get a local one. Indiana, which is relatively close by, is a big melon-producing state, so we can usually do ok.
At some point, the stores around here will all be advertising “Indiana Melons!!!” - usually cantaloupe/muskmelon, but very big, and somewhat ribbed all around instead of smooth.
Tuttle Orchards
Minus the dragon fruit, that kind of melon salad is very popular here, especially at breakfast.
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