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Post by MichyM on Jun 29, 2018 22:35:43 GMT
All stone fruits. Apricots, peaches, nectarines, but most importantly RAINIER CHERRIES. OMG, heaven right here on earth. I love the summer time  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 22:37:22 GMT
Oh, the peaches are perfect this week!! Both my grandsons eat them, smiling while the juice runs down their arms. Unfortunately, the peach season is so short.
Watermelon, cantaloupe, blueberries & strawberries are all my favorites. I only eat fresh fruit, I don’t like canned. But I do love peach or apple pie/cobbler.
Oh, and cherries, I saw them at Kroger for the first time today. A good memory is my Mom biting the 1/2 with the pit then giving me the bite without.
That’s a sweet memory but I just put that pitter in my amazon cart. I think I’ll try the cherry/chicken salad on my grandsons.
Great thread!
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Post by quiltz on Jun 29, 2018 23:02:57 GMT
I love cherries! They’re in season now here in the Okanagan and I can’t wait to dig in. 😊 this is where I fess up that I struggle with fresh fruit. I want to like, I keep buying and trying it...but I really prefer tinned fruit in most cases. I think it's because, except for grapes and melon when we lived in Cyprus, we really didn't have fresh fruit growing up and in my young adult years, I couldn't afford it and I never really developed a taste for it. I keep trying though - both because it's healthier and because I want MY kids to grow up with fresh fruit at home. I do like grapes (only green seedless) and melon (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew)....apples are okay sliced. I like crumbles and crisps and pies and ....other baked goods with fruit I have finally realised most fruit here is either rock hard or tastes like cotton wool. I want to like it but it never ripens well, with the exception of strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, all of which I have on cereal. There is nothing more delicious than fresh Scottish raspberries. Living in Niagara, referred as Canada's fruit basket (along with Okanagan) and I eat all the local fruits & veggies that I can. Strawberries are still in season, beautiful red, sweet berries with no white pith in them. Once you taste the real tree-ripened fruit, you will never ever have tinned fruit again. I do home-can fresh peaches so that I can enjoy them all year long. |
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Post by finaledition on Jun 29, 2018 23:18:35 GMT
I love watermelon, but I think really good watermelons are not so easy to come by. We have a plum tree and my in laws have an apricot tree and I’d say that those just picked and ripe on the tree are the absolute best.
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Post by hannahruth on Jul 18, 2018 15:09:21 GMT
I love watermelon, but I think really good watermelons are not so easy to come by. We have a plum tree and my in laws have an apricot tree and I’d say that those just picked and ripe on the tree are the absolute best. I could have written this - any fruit straight from the tree is the best! Apricots would be my favourite fruit but the season is not very long in the shops so I do eat a lot of canned. |
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Post by peano on Jul 18, 2018 16:39:42 GMT
I go through fruit jags that are partly seasonal. Now I’m eating melons (except for watermelon—don’t like), nectarines, pineapple and blueberries. When the Macoun apples start to come in in October, I eat those almost exclusively, because they won’t be available long. Winter is grapefruit season. Spring is strawberries.
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Post by ladytrisha on Jul 18, 2018 18:03:15 GMT
we have a dining program at work and I just joined the breakfast/lunch program because they have a huge bowl of fruit every morning and afternoon. So far it's been a LOT of cantalope and honeydew, but I'm hoping for more watermelon and blood oranges.
I found that fresh fruit is even better when someone cuts it all up for ya! (grin)
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Post by SabrinaP on Jul 18, 2018 18:06:43 GMT
Fresh peaches from the local orchard
Watermelon
Strawberries
Grapes
Blueberries
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Post by ginacivey on Jul 18, 2018 18:07:37 GMT
Cherries, blueberries and apples. I made chicken salad earlier in the week with rotisserie chicken and fresh cherries. Cherries are amazing in chicken salad. You’ll never go back to grapes. i have some chicken and i have cherries - guess what's for lunch tomorrow! gina |
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Post by ntsf on Jul 18, 2018 18:15:06 GMT
raspberries, huckleberries (those are my fav), then blueberries, crisp apples, peaches and mangos.. I can't eat melon.--I'm allergic to it. but love most other fruit. lychee is good, strawberries, .. we eat berries year round.
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Post by birukitty on Jul 18, 2018 20:11:46 GMT
Cherries are my favorite. And I agree with you michym-Rainier cherries are the best! Strawberries, really every fruit come to think of it. Except for cantaloupe. I don't like cantaloupe. To me it tastes like mold.
I love eating fresh fruit just by itself. That's desert for me. I won't eat canned fruit-yuck! Frozen is great in smoothies.
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Post by katybee on Jul 18, 2018 22:00:42 GMT
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jul 19, 2018 2:31:47 GMT
Mostly peaches and strawberries, but I would be hard pressed to pick one I didn't like.... except guava. I can't stand it😲
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 19, 2018 3:03:30 GMT
Around here they are called Honey Rocks |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 19, 2018 3:39:04 GMT
The champagne mangos are sooooooo good! I bought 5 of them (I’m the only one here that really likes mango, unless it’s in a smoothie) and one of the really ripe ones tastes just like marshmallows!! My 13yo son loves mangoes, and we go through a lot in summer. I've discovered a fruit and veg shop that sells them by the box (18 mangoes per box) at a very good price. A couple of years ago I bought him a mango slicer as a stocking stuffer at Christmas, so he often eats a whole mango for breakfast that he can now cut up himself. Some of the other ways we have mango: smoothie (of course) salsa - mango, avocado, spanish onion sorbet in the Thermomix I also have a recipe for mango, ginger and chilli chutney that I make in the Thermomix - it is divine! I took some away with us the other week and SIL has already put her order in for a batch next summer. (I had to look up how to spell the plural of mango, because you spell it differently to how I do and on my little Australian computer yours is getting the red squiggly spellcheck lines. Turns out we're both correct:
The preferred plural form of mango is mangoes although the OED, Oxford American Dictionary of Current English and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary also accept mangos. ... ''Words ending in o can take s or es in the plural.) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 3:46:51 GMT
My favorite fruits are rambutan, persimmons, watermelon, all kinds of berries and bananas. I like mango but fresh mango makes my lips and mouth feel odd so I avoid it. I don't like pineapple and it gives me mouth sores if eaten fresh (I can eat canned ok but don't like it too much)
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 19, 2018 4:34:39 GMT
I am wild for fresh cherries, and the season has just started. I just eat them plain, and we don't have a pitter, so I have to be very careful as I eat them because I HATE when the pit touches my tongue. The taste is just BLEAH! You can easily pit them by putting it on top of a plastic soda bottle and pushing straight down through the center with a wooden chopstick! The pits will drop right into the bottle so you don’t even have anything to clean up. My DD has started watching all these life hack YouTube videos and that’s where I picked up that tip. |
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Post by Jili on Jul 19, 2018 5:03:10 GMT
My favorites are cherries, nectarines, raspberries, and grapes. This year we started grilling peaches with pork tenderloin, and it is so good!
My dad has been wanting to try dragon fruit, and it happened to be on sale the other day. We were not impressed. We didn’t feel it had much flavor or sweetness at all. I kind of thought that it had a grassy taste. I won’t be buying it again. It was so pretty, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 5:19:58 GMT
The grouchy old woman likes fresh figs with honey. I like just about anything.
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Post by MaryMary on Jul 19, 2018 5:56:03 GMT
I can’t imagine anything more delicious than a mango.
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Post by PaperAngel on Jul 19, 2018 6:43:15 GMT
I only eat fresh fruit, never canned. My favorite is tomatoes, specifically hierloom beefsteak, sprinkled (generously) with Himalayan pink salt. I also like raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, & watermelon.
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Post by tracyarts on Jul 19, 2018 6:53:38 GMT
I found fresh lychees in a large supermarket this past weekend. I love tropical fruits and lychees are up near the top of my list. But their season is short and they're really hard to find. I don't think I'll find them again this year unless that store gets another flat of them or I can get to an Asian supermarket this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 10:41:04 GMT
And I love pears, but given that their window of perfect ripeness is only about twenty minutes, I don’t eat them very often. LOL, this is SO true! Am I the only one who loves plums? |
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Post by Nanner on Jul 19, 2018 11:56:18 GMT
Raspberries are my favourite. I also love grapes, cantaloupe, cherries and oranges.
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Post by schizo319 on Jul 19, 2018 12:07:19 GMT
My favorite fruits are raspberry and peach, but right now I'm enjoying cherries because they've been on sale. Mostly I just eat apples though because they're convenient and readily available year round.
The only fruit I can think of that I don't eat is bananas, I don't hate them or anything, but I find them a little too sweet so I don't ever choose them.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jul 19, 2018 12:46:35 GMT
I'm hard pressed to think of a fruit that I don't like. Whatever is in season is my favorite. I wish we could get grapefruits off the tree in winter - I'd eat them by the bushel at my mom's old place in Florida. Right now, strawberry season has ended, raspberry and blueberry are starting. Cherries are going strong. I'm about to start eating melons again - they've been rock hard in the store and I'm hoping that changes.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Jul 19, 2018 13:22:08 GMT
I started a separate thread on plumcots before I noticed this one. OMG they are so good—a cross between plums and apricots. Very “plummy” taste, but sweeter. The two together taste better than either one individually, IMHO.
But blueberries are still my favorite.
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Post by guzismom on Jul 19, 2018 13:22:42 GMT
I'm buying cherries like crazy right now since they are on sale for $1.48 at sprouts. I am pitting and freezing them for autumn and winter.
Next will be white peaches; those are my favorites! When they go on sale I may freeze a few bags of those as well.
We have two peach trees so when they start bearing fruit, we will make pies and also freeze for winter.
Local watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew are now being sold road side; so I grab one or two of those every week.
The champagne mangoes (we call them Manila mangoes as they are the same as we get when in the Philippines) are so much better than those big, round red/green/orange ones! I pick those up when I see good ones as well.
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Post by ntsf on Jul 19, 2018 16:05:34 GMT
I love italian prune plums... hard to find at a supermarket.. lots of them in the seattle area backyard trees.. so tart and wonderful and the the flesh falls off the pit.
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Post by papersilly on Jul 19, 2018 17:04:42 GMT
i love papayas. especially papaya parfaits. i love mangoes and young coconut too.
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