Post by princessfuzzball on Jun 18, 2006 23:36:29 GMT -5
Allright, I have over three years of working in a produce department, and I have encountered a LOT of exotic/ unusual fruits and vegtables. We all know that variety is the spice of life, and it's important to eat your proper ammount of servings each day. Eating say a "red apple" twice a day gets old real fast.
I'll start this thread off with two profiles, an exotic/unusal fruit and a vegtable. Please feel free to discuss further, add more, and check back because I'll be putting up more.
Fruit:
It's actually almost the short three week time of year where you can get sansa apples if you know where to go.... They are by far my favorite apple because they are crisp, yet soft, they are sweet and the skin is thin.
"The Sansa Apple is beautiful, colorful, firm, juicy, crisp and sweet. With an interesting background (international in creation from pollen from Japan and New Zealand!) this apple is worth the fuss! Great dessert apple!
Released in 1988 after 20 years of researching the seedlings from this international effort between pollen from the Japanese Akane and the New Zealand Gala."
Not your run of the mill apple
Vegtable:
while technically a fungus:
"The morel is widely appreciated by gourmets, who savor its earthy flavor. These dark little morel mushrooms are marvelously flavorful and don't need much embellishment - simply saute in butter or a light oil.
Dark morels are smaller in size than their larger cousins, blonde morels. Typical size is 2 - 3 inches, or even a little less."
Since it is not known exactlly how or why this mushroom spreads, it must be hunted and harvested from nature. Some experienced hunters have trained pigs (I kid you not!) that wander the woods and find the mushrooms, and then dig at the base of them with their snout. It is also reccomended that these mushrooms be washed thouroghly before they are used because they usually turn up with maggots hiding in the cap. They are found fresh for a few weeks each year and then are sold dried or frozen (if you have a LOT of money to blow) for the ramainder of the year.
Check these guys out while they are still in season, and happy cooking!
thanks to:
www.deliciousorganics.com/recipes/apples.htm
earthy.com/catalog/item/1334
I'll start this thread off with two profiles, an exotic/unusal fruit and a vegtable. Please feel free to discuss further, add more, and check back because I'll be putting up more.
Fruit:
It's actually almost the short three week time of year where you can get sansa apples if you know where to go.... They are by far my favorite apple because they are crisp, yet soft, they are sweet and the skin is thin.
"The Sansa Apple is beautiful, colorful, firm, juicy, crisp and sweet. With an interesting background (international in creation from pollen from Japan and New Zealand!) this apple is worth the fuss! Great dessert apple!
Released in 1988 after 20 years of researching the seedlings from this international effort between pollen from the Japanese Akane and the New Zealand Gala."
Not your run of the mill apple
Vegtable:
while technically a fungus:
"The morel is widely appreciated by gourmets, who savor its earthy flavor. These dark little morel mushrooms are marvelously flavorful and don't need much embellishment - simply saute in butter or a light oil.
Dark morels are smaller in size than their larger cousins, blonde morels. Typical size is 2 - 3 inches, or even a little less."
Since it is not known exactlly how or why this mushroom spreads, it must be hunted and harvested from nature. Some experienced hunters have trained pigs (I kid you not!) that wander the woods and find the mushrooms, and then dig at the base of them with their snout. It is also reccomended that these mushrooms be washed thouroghly before they are used because they usually turn up with maggots hiding in the cap. They are found fresh for a few weeks each year and then are sold dried or frozen (if you have a LOT of money to blow) for the ramainder of the year.
Check these guys out while they are still in season, and happy cooking!
thanks to:
www.deliciousorganics.com/recipes/apples.htm
earthy.com/catalog/item/1334
