What do these three fruits have in common? Of course they are Caribbean fruit. Being a locavore has never been so good. All three types grow within 100 paces of my front door.
Tiny mandarins are in season now. Tart, sweet, and packed with more fiber than you might imagine, fresh mandarins are a distant cousin from canned version I loved as a kid. These cute, little guys were a welcome gift from my land lord.
The Noni fruit tastes as bad as it is ugly. Islanders have used it as a cure-all for centuries. Maybe just surviving the taste, gives one a renewed interest in life? I'm going to try to make a juice by soaking it in water for a few days and see what happens. If you don't see any more posts, you can imagine that it didn't end well.
And, of course the gorgeous papaya comes in all sizes. I posed my hand behind this hefty specimen so that you could get an idea of the weight. Think concrete football. The pentagonal center reminds me of the 5-cornered , pink starfish resting on the ocean bottom at Choc Beach. Locals eat the peppery seeds as a digestive, or dry and crush them for seasoning.
Would love to see more of the cornucopia. A lovely way to start and end the day, with all that fresh fruit. Yum.
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