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New adventures in citrus fruit

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:25:09 GMT

I bought two navel oranges at the supermarket yesterday.

I just peeled one, and the fruits pink inside. Furthermore, it tastes rather like a pink grapefruit.

The label says "Sunkist 3130 cara cara."

Yes, citrus are weird, but I expect a little more consistency from seedless fruit, which should be clones.

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Odd discovery of the day

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:38:43 GMT

Our cat Kaja will eat tangerine.

cattitude was eating one, and offered the cats a chance to sniff a segment. Molly did her "what is this thing? That's not food" bit, which she does with most of what we eat (sometimes including something, such as chicken, that she has accepted the day before), but Kaja sniffed it all over and looked interested. So I took a tiny bit of tangerine pulp, and she sniffed at it, and ate it—and then accepted another bit from Cattitude.

OK, this isn't julian_tiger's "this is the best thing in the world! More!" reaction, but that makes two cats out of five that we've had in our time together, and before Julian made himself clear on the subject we didn't offer tangerines to our cats because everyone knows cats dislike citrus.

(Kaja, like Molly, is prone to turn down even poultry and salmon, which she sometimes likes, depending on mood or something; she doesn't have Julian's omnivorous enthusiasm.)

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new food: citrus: Buddha's hand/fingered citron

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:28:59 GMT

A few days ago, cattitude came home with a Buddha's hand/fingered citron, purely because it was a new food and we should try it.

He just made bay scallops (it was a lucky week at the Greenmarket, and hasn't started snowing yet) in butter flavored with ginger and the Buddha's hand.

Nice. The small bits of citrus were only okay to eat by themselves, but they flavored the butter very nicely.

ETA: Cattitude has posted about this, with recipe and a photo. If you haven't seen this stuff, do click through.

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