Continuing my #FoodJoyCampaign (thank you @rhigarthjones.bsky.social for the hashtag idea) — I found mangosteen and I’m so excited! It’s one of my favorite fruits and so hard to find in North America. Tell me about some fruits you love and/or a food discovery that excited you recently? :)
i love custard apples and havent had any since i was living in bangalore in 2018/2019
Every summer I basically have nothing but cherries for dessert from June through August.
Baked a cherry pie last weekend and brought it into the office to share/dispose of, because I can't eat that much pastry. (I certainly can eat the pound and a half of cherries, just give me four days to do it, but a whole pie crust? That's a bit much.)
Aaaaah mangosteen joy!!!
Paw paw! Delicious, native north American tree fruit too fragile to cultivate for sale. I have planted some paw paw trees in my yard, and haven't gotten fruit yet, but we had a single blossom last year, four blossoms this year, and lots of zebra swallowtails hosted, so I'm hopeful for fruit soon!
Ooh I've read about that but never tried it! Can you describe the flavor?
Mild flavor, I would call it most similar to apple + papaya, and a little something else that a lot of people call "banana," but people who dislike banana dont think it's like banana. It's very hard to describe! Texture similar to mango, but less dense and fibrous.
That sounds excellent; I hope I get a chance to taste one some day
You can roast artichoke hearts!
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I love love love soursop (my favourite fruit!) but it is VERY hard to find fresh where I live -- like, I have had it single-digit times fresh in Edmonton. Sometimes I'll buy the juice just to have the taste, but it's not the same. :(
Soursop is so so delicious and yes I also have such a hard time finding it!! 😭
Is it like the rambutan we had in Costa Rica? Have seen it in stores here in California too. Lychee in India looks like it too.
It looks a bit similar but it’s quite different from either rambutan or lychee, though I love those as well — much softer and juicier with a sweet-tart floral flavor, and a much thicker shell.
Another similar one is sitaphal which is a nightmare to eat easily, 40-50 of the juicy bits each covering small hard seeds.
I loooooooove sitaphal/soursop — but it’s also quite different; it’s much denser while mangosteen is very light, and mangosteen has a more subtle and flowery flavor. (Also native to different parts of the world; soursop is native to the Americas and mangosteen is native to Southeast Asia.)
I’ll look for it thank you! I love these types of fruits with different texture, like chikoo or sapota
I’ve never found anything that tastes similar to mangosteen which makes it hard to describe 😭
my Cherokee Purple tomatoes are just starting to ripen. it may seem like an ordinary fruit, but when sliced thinly, with a bit of salt, will explode in your mouth with pure joy. #FoodJoyCampaign
Looks gorgeous! Fresh tomatoes are a wonderful thing.
(Note: the hashtag is just for me to be able to look back on these and smile later, I’m not trying to go viral, reply guys always swarm me when I go viral) (Admittedly maybe if I went viral about mangosteen I would get fewer reply guys than when I go viral about genocide? But you never know.)
Depends where you are in North America.. Here in Vancouver, plenty of it during season.. Mind you, not cheap though..
Vancouver is where I am right now 🤣
Then you probably already know that most popular place to get it is Granville Island Market..
Trader Joe's had good rambutan the other day and I almost cried!
Rambutaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan (or shoke-shoke, as my family calls it!)
No idea what they’re called, but in Mexico City I tried three different kinds of passion fruit.
That sounds lovely — passion fruit is my absolute favorite fruit; a few years ago I visited Costa Rica and tried a bunch of different kinds at a farm and I was so happy. But my #1 will always be East African passion fruit, because a. childhood, b. I’m objectively right and no one should question me
i have been berry-picking as the summer winds down here in Alaska, which means getting to enjoy species of berries that can for all practical purposes only be picked wild: salmonberry, watermelonberry, nagoonberry, saskatoons, high-bush cranberry, and hopefully this weekend cloudberries!
Berry picking is wonderful! And now I want to visit Alaska just to try all these berries I’ve never experienced 😍
the humble blueberry growing wild on an Alaskan mountainside might be one of the most delicious berries i've ever had, and i'm not normally a blueberry fan. well worth the visit in early autumn and the changing colors are breathtaking
I think one of the keys is they're a different species than your commercial blueberry, so slightly different flavor profile! I feel the same, not normally a blueberry fan but those are soooooo good
and so plentiful! gorge myself like a bear and still take bags home to make nastojka (vodka +berries) really start to miss Alaska around this time!
They have flavor AT ALL! My best berry was a thimbleberry growning near the top of a mountain stream I'd been hiking up, sampling, for hours. I swear it tasted like red velvet cake.
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