Dragonfruit

We bought a dragonfruit in Chinatown on Saturday. They're impressively magenta. Knowing nothing about how to tell a good one from a bad, I asked the fruitmonger to select one for me.

cattitude looked it up when he got home. The web suggested chilling it, cutting it in half, and spooning out the flesh, so it's been in the refrigerator. Sliced open, the magenta rind revealed white flesh with lots of tiny black seeds.

Unfortunately, it didn't really taste like anything. Cattitude and adrian_turtle concur in this assessment; it's not just that I'm coming down with a cold. It may just be underripe, and I may look for another one later, ideally in company with someone who knows about them. However, we have given up on this dragonfruit, and will be having chocolate chip–pumpkin bread for our dessert.

Either the fruitmonger didn't know how to select a good dragonfruit either, or he figured he'd unload a large, not-yet-ripe one on the ignorant. (They were selling by the pound, not the each.)

I just went to my ongoing entry on new foods for the year, to enter "Dragon fruit" and found that the first entry was for dried dragon fruit, which I described as vaguely sweet, with no other noticeable flavor. Cattitude and Adrian may wish to give it another try, but I probably won't.

Dragonfruit

We bought a dragonfruit in Chinatown on Saturday. They're impressively magenta. Knowing nothing about how to tell a good one from a bad, I asked the fruitmonger to select one for me.

cattitude looked it up when he got home. The web suggested chilling it, cutting it in half, and spooning out the flesh, so it's been in the refrigerator. Sliced open, the magenta rind revealed white flesh with lots of tiny black seeds.

Unfortunately, it didn't really taste like anything. Cattitude and adrian_turtle concur in this assessment; it's not just that I'm coming down with a cold. It may just be underripe, and I may look for another one later, ideally in company with someone who knows about them. However, we have given up on this dragonfruit, and will be having chocolate chip–pumpkin bread for our dessert.

Either the fruitmonger didn't know how to select a good dragonfruit either, or he figured he'd unload a large, not-yet-ripe one on the ignorant. (They were selling by the pound, not the each.)

I just went to my ongoing entry on new foods for the year, to enter "Dragon fruit" and found that the first entry was for dried dragon fruit, which I described as vaguely sweet, with no other noticeable flavor. Cattitude and Adrian may wish to give it another try, but I probably won't.