Dr Tanya is our hostess for the 5 Things challenge.
https://saltedcaramel670.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/5-exotic-fruits-you-love/
The 5 Things tag keeps surfacing on WordPress. I am not sure who first thought of it but I have always found it fun to do. I thought “Why not make it a weekly feature?” If you participate in a post of your own please tag it #5things. Your concept of exotic varies with the variety of foods freely available around you. In western countries, mangoes would be considered exotic but in my part of the world they are the commonest seasonal fruit in summer.
I was never a fruity person (get your mind out of the gutter), just your basic oranges, apples, and bananas, with seedless grapes and strawberries in the summer and satsumas or pomegranates at Christmas.
That’s all changed now and you can have practically any fruit any time of the year.
Mangoes.
I was introduced to mangoes in 1993 when on holiday in Amsterdam.
I love them!
Kiwi fruit
Memories of my trip to NZ (picture left, but not mine), but kiwi and raspberries for dessert? Yummy!!
Melon.
Melon is good for a starter or dessert. It’s light and refreshing. One of the family dogs loved it, and would be ‘smiling’ with his own wedge!
Pineapple:
I love fresh pineapple, but it is so acidic, it gives me mouth ulcers.
However, fresh pineapple in some of my recipes brings a whole new dimension of flavour to the dish, and not just dessert.
Star Fruit
In 1994, I was on a diet coming up to Christmas and to show willing for our department Christmas meal, I ordered an exotic fruit starter, traditional dinner and a fruit salad for dessert.
The only difference between my starter and dessert was star fruit on one, and cream on the other.
I love all of those fruits too Di! Especially pineapple and melon!
I haven’t eaten star fruit. The rest I like very much
I don’t remember very much about it apart from the shape.
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I am so glad you love mangoes. My country is famous for its mangoes.
I agree that globalization has made all kinds of fruit available all the time.
We are indeed very lucky that not everything is seasonal like it used to be.
Indeed!
Fruit from all over the world is available year round.
I introduced my sons to a variety of foods. When the grocery first had star fruit it didn’t sell so I bought it on discount. Son#1 went crazy for it. I indulged him when there was any on sale. Son#2 was a “fruitarian” and there was no fruit that he tried that he didn’t like. Currently he has not tried durian but that is mostly because of access! At least if he does try it it will be in his house and not mine!
I used to love satsumas and the big navel oranges, but discovered they were a trigger for migraine, so very rarely eat anything orangey.
Now HERE melons are locally grown (although obviously not all year round), so they’re definitely not an exotic. Every dog I’ve ever had liked watermelon, I guess that must be a favorite regardless of species? LOL. Star fruit? I’ve never seen that before, although I have read about it. What a weird looking fruit. How does it taste?
Not of very much to be honest and I only had it that once. I’m not a fan of water melon (to many pips) so it’s Galia or honeydew for me.
Ooo. You’ve never heard (or had offered apparently) the seedless variety. But you have to enjoy the flavor and perhaps that’s not to your taste? It’s my favorite type of melon, in the summer time I live on the stuff. My diabetic doctors don’t like that much, they still have too much natural sugar for such as me! I don’t thin I’ve ever heard of a Galia? Is that a European variety?
I didn’t know Melanie so looked it up and according to WIKI:
Galia melon is a unique hybrid melon created from cantaloupe and honeydew melon. Developed in Israel, the Galia melon’s scientific name is cucumis melo var. reticulatus
As I like both honeydew and cantaloupe, that’s probably why I like this one too.
Hope you’re having a good day.