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What's in your fruit bowl
i done a big shop the day and bought different fruit rather than the traditional ie bananas oranges apples.
Kiwis, Mangoes and Grapefruits i purchased but how do you prepare them .
Can you hedgehog a mango. peel a kiwi or eat a grapefruit without sugar.
Think i better get back to basics
Kiwis, Mangoes and Grapefruits i purchased but how do you prepare them .
Can you hedgehog a mango. peel a kiwi or eat a grapefruit without sugar.
Think i better get back to basics
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
brian, don't ask me, I've been getting this wrong for years.
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
Mangoes are a pest to peel -just cut a start and try peeling with fingers, knife or peeler. . then it is a terrible job to separate the flesh from the kernel. Must be a way - I don't know it. You can use a knife or a peeler on the Kiwi, or just slice it with the skin on like you would a cucumber. You can actually eat the whole thing (ends sliced off) skin and all but not to everyone's taste. You can sprinkle sugar on grapefruit and scoop it out of the already cut halves.However an important note. Be careful about eating grapefruit if on blood pressure medication - it acts against a number of these medications, as you may discover if reading the precautions that come with the pills. Wee Alibrian f wrote:i done a big shop the day and bought different fruit rather than the traditional ie bananas oranges apples.
Kiwis, Mangoes and Grapefruits i purchased but how do you prepare them .
Can you hedgehog a mango. peel a kiwi or eat a grapefruit without sugar.
Think i better get back to basics
Re: What's in your fruit bowl
[quote="little plum"]brian, don't ask me, I've been getting this wrong for years.
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After all them years , that is AMAZING
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After all them years , that is AMAZING
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
brian, my good lady eats a Kiwi similar to eating a boiled egg. She takes the top off it and scoops out the flesh with a tea spoon.brian f wrote: peel a kiwi
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
brian, my good lady eats a Kiwi similar to eating a boiled egg. She takes the top off it and scoops out the flesh with a tea spoon. [/quote[utube][utube] ][/utube][/utube]little plum wrote:brian f wrote: peel a kiwi
I do much the same, cut in half and scoop out inside. Mangos taste petrolly to me and as wee Ali says a bit of bother with that huge pit. Grapefruit I eat either cut in half and segmented or like an orange. I don't know what 'hedgehogging a fruit means..
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
To cut and eat a mango we slice the "cheeks" off and then crisis cross cuts in the flesh, then push up on the skin and you have little squares that you can but off. That sounds as clear as mud written down but does work, try it.
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
brian, I was thinking of starting a similar topic before you posted this, it was " what's the most unusual fruit you have eaten" When growing up fruit was a treat , I remember getting an apple or orange in my xmas stocking, not sure if it was cost or availability of fruit at the time, but now the supermarkets have all kinds of exotic fruit. I've tried citris fruits in the Carribbean that look similar to limes with a pink flesh, I've also tried dragon fruit thats very decorative as part of a sweet but not much flavour. While in Sri Lanka my private tour guide stopped at a roadside vendor selling durian fruit, when I got out his car I was hit with a gut wrenching smell from the husks next to the stall, there was no way I was going to try it. I have been reliably informed by other 3t's members that it is delicious.
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Re: What's in your fruit bowl
I loved durian LP. I tasted it for the first time in Thailand and fought the awful sulphur type smell to at least say Id tried it but to my amazement I actually enjoyed it. It stinks so much that Singapore government banned it from the subway system.
Did you see or try any of the many varieties of banana in sri lanka. I have eaten toast and banana for breakfast since I was a kid. The waiters in our hotel tried to bring me different kinds of banana each morning - red skinned ones that tasted like custard, green ones that tasted just like a ripe banana we get here, but my favourite was the tiny sour bananas - no bigger than 3" long. Although we occasionally get tiny bananas in our supermarkets they arent the sour ones from sri lanka sadly.
Meg
Did you see or try any of the many varieties of banana in sri lanka. I have eaten toast and banana for breakfast since I was a kid. The waiters in our hotel tried to bring me different kinds of banana each morning - red skinned ones that tasted like custard, green ones that tasted just like a ripe banana we get here, but my favourite was the tiny sour bananas - no bigger than 3" long. Although we occasionally get tiny bananas in our supermarkets they arent the sour ones from sri lanka sadly.
Meg
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Very interesting ,so size dosn't matter. The best bananas i've ever tasted were in Egypt, small and green.
Re: What's in your fruit bowl
Hi, little plum i have not travelled as much as you, though i do like to read of other members adventures.little plum wrote:brian, I was thinking of starting a similar topic before you posted this, it was " what's the most unusual fruit you have eaten" When growing up fruit was a treat , I remember getting an apple or orange in my xmas stocking, not sure if it was cost or availability of fruit at the time, but now the supermarkets have all kinds of exotic fruit. I've tried citris fruits in the Carribbean that look similar to limes with a pink flesh, I've also tried dragon fruit thats very decorative as part of a sweet but not much flavour. While in Sri Lanka my private tour guide stopped at a roadside vendor selling durian fruit, when I got out his car I was hit with a gut wrenching smell from the husks next to the stall, there was no way I was going to try it. I have been reliably informed by other 3t's members that it is delicious.
My knowledge about fruit is probably limited to whats on sale in my local supermarkets.
Yes i do remember the fruit in the xmas stocking, some crafty parents would overload with fruit to make it look good
Re: What's in your fruit bowl
Hi , Meg i have also eaten toast and banana all my life, love it any time of day.Meg wrote:I loved durian LP. I tasted it for the first time in Thailand and fought the awful sulphur type smell to at least say Id tried it but to my amazement I actually enjoyed it. It stinks so much that Singapore government banned it from the subway system.
Did you see or try any of the many varieties of banana in sri lanka. I have eaten toast and banana for breakfast since I was a kid. The waiters in our hotel tried to bring me different kinds of banana each morning - red skinned ones that tasted like custard, green ones that tasted just like a ripe banana we get here, but my favourite was the tiny sour bananas - no bigger than 3" long. Although we occasionally get tiny bananas in our supermarkets they arent the sour ones from sri lanka sadly.
Meg
My wife and kids think am strange eating it, so i feel better now you eat it