Vegan MoFo: Fruit!
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Today is my four year wedding anniversary with my husband. We met on the day the Red Sox won the World Series and we married a year later. Now, it’s been four whole years of matrimony!
The traditional gift for the fourth year is fruits or flowers, perfect for us since we’re vegan! (Last year the traditional gift was leather… NOT cool.)
So, on that note: fruits! I’ve got two things on fruits today…
A fruit I recently discovered is rambutan. I get it dried from Trader Joe’s. I can scarf down a whole bag of ‘em like they’re popcorn. Here’s the wikipedia description of rambutan:
“The fruit is a round to oval drupe 3–6 cm (rarely to 8 cm) tall and 3-4 cm broad, borne in a loose pendant cluster of 10-20 together. The leathery skin is reddish (rarely orange or yellow), and covered with fleshy pliable spines, hence the name rambutan, derived from the Malay word rambut which means hairs. The fruit flesh is translucent, whitish or very pale pink, with a sweet, mildly acidic flavour.”
Have you tried it? Do you like it?
Recently, someone suggested we plant a “fruit cocktail tree” in our backyard. Such a tree is a combination of various fruit trees (grafted together) which produces four different kinds of fruit. The specific fruits vary by region. A fruit cocktail tree is a new fad for people with small yards or patio gardens who don’t have room for multiple fruit trees.
I like the idea of such a tree and have been thinking about getting one. Any thoughts?
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PS – If you want to give us something for our anniversary, the best gift would be for you to go vegan! If you’re already vegan, how about donating to the Vegas Billboard Project?
Mmm…those rambutans look yummy.
When I lived in Belize, we discovered dragon fruit (the fruit of a certain kind of cactus, the same wild pink as the rambutans, but bigger than your fist. We also loved the soursop. It looks and sounds disgusting (green and covered with spikes. ow!) but it tastes like sour apple candy.
Belize was amazing, there were food vendors on the street, but instead of selling hot dogs or pretzels, they sold bags of cut up fruit (mangoes, pineapples, papayas, coconut) and fried plantain chips for 50 cents US a piece (you have to be careful, sometimes the plantain chips are fried in lard). Of course, you can really only appreciate these things in a tropical climate. The pineapples, papayas, and even coconuts and bananas that we get in North America are nowhere near ripe, and the flavor is not the same. I got some dragon fruits in Canada and Germany, hoping for that same wow intense flavor. But they were bland and not even sweet.
Ok, I’m thouroughly homesick for Belize now.
Happy anniversary!
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“they sold bags of cut up fruit”
sounds wonderful!