peaches, cherries, blueberries, nectarines, strawberries!!!!

[tigereye]

it's Saturnalia! I love summer and its plethora of fruits! Who's with me? Fruit bacchanal!

[Arugula Latte]

1. Yeaaaarrrrrgh!

We just got back from the downtown Portland Farmers' Market w/ fresh local Oregon strawberries (the BEST!), local cherries (my favorites!) and some other veggies, bread, etc. Yum. I love summer fruits and veggies -- especially fresh peas out of the pod!

[tigereye]

3. ooh

great! I know there are lots of goodies at the local farmer's markets. I could just live on blueberries, corn and homegrown tomatoes!
:hi:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

2. Mmmmm...mangoes, papayas, star fruit, kiwi, pineapple, spanish limes

I'm with ya...even down here in the tropics!!

[tigereye]

4. mangoes are wonderful

starfruit! Spanish lime.. how does one eat that, or use it?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. Spanish limes are delicious...they are kind of like lychee nuts

A bit smaller than a golf ball. Green hard skin that you crack open. The flesh is sweet/sour, with the texture of a concord grape. Very tasty. Large pit. I've only eaten them. Never had them cooked or jellied or anything like that.
I am eating a mango right now. They have come into season, and like tomatoes, when they come into season, EVERYBODY is giving them away before they go bad. Delicious!

[SoCalDem]

15. That sounds like ginnips.. I miss them sooooo much

Used to eat them like MAD when I was a kid in Panama.. We knew all the best trees to climb and get them.. the monkeys loved them, and would try to get to them before we did.:)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

21. Did you put the whole fruit in your mouth and crack the skin with your

teeth, suck the fruit out and then spit out the skin? We used to say we were sucking eyeballs because of the size and the texture of the fruit. :) There are only private trees left in Key Largo because the fruit isn't sold commercially, but once in a while I can find them at the flea market fruit stand.

[SoCalDem]

23. Yep.. a leathery green pod...about the size of a shooter marble

they grow like grapes in clusters.. the inside fruit is slimy and on a large pit.. It has the consistency of gum if you continue to chew it..

I found them as an adult when we went to Jamaica. We had a villa and a car and were there for 2 weeks, so we had lots of time to wander. I found them at an open-air market and bought a bunch of them. As we walked down the street, strangers would pass us and say.."Ginnip, mon?"and grab a few as they passed..

We had to buy some more on the way back to our place.:)

My husband (never out of the US until that trip) said they were the weirdest things he ever atr..

My mouth is watering now:(

[GOPisEvil]

5. Oh that reminds me - I should go to the farmer's market tomorrow.

[tigereye]

8. take a tent and camp out!

[bicentennial_baby]

6. I've got a great stawberry crop this year...

it's been going strong for a few weeks now...yum

[tigereye]

9. I am sure that yours taste much better

than the ones that you get at the store!

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Oh definitely!

They're organic, and oh-so sweet!

[OnionPatch]

7. We just finished off our cherries

they were great! Fat and juicy and sweet. We still have strawberries going gonzo and blackberries are starting to come ripe. Berries are so good for you too.

I can't wait for my first tomato, though. That's the highlight of my garden every summer, I think.

[BlondieK143]

10. Oh yummy!

I think I'm going to have to get some strawberries tomorrow when I go to the store! :)

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Local New York strawberries from the farmers market.

Pure heaven.

:9:9:9

[swag]

13. Oh, I have to drive down to Powell Butte to check on the blackberries.

Free eats. Great pies.

Thanks, tigereye. I'm so dead to the world I need reminders of what happens in summer.

[Tsiyu]

17. Too funny

"I'm so dead to the world I need reminders of what happens in summer.":P

Don't know why but that cracked me up...our blackberries are not ripe yet but I can't wait! Maybe a few more weeks....then cobbler, pie, preserves, maybe even som homemade blackberry ice cream..Yummmmmm

[swag]

18. Alas, pathetic but true.

I picked a bunch of blackberries one summer and took them to my dad in Montana. He's a Missouri boy, and he also used to pick a ton of blackberries in the undeveloped suburban parts of Northern Virginia. Blackberries don't grow in north central Montana.

I baked a cobbler, and have never seen his eyes light up so much as when I brought him his bowl.

Anyway, enjoy your blackberries. I'm going to be serious about it all this year.

[Tsiyu]

19. You have dad in Montana?

Is he cute? Single? Can he drive a tractor? ;)

[swag]

20. He used to be cute, he's married, and he's done driving tractors,

but thanks for asking and for the winky.

He was quite the macho gringo in his day.

[tigereye]

26. I love it

your sig pic and the image of baking pies. Wonderful cognitive dissonance. You're a Renaissance man, my dear?

[swag]

28. I think nowadays the term for "renaissance man is" the rather

protracted "jack of all trades, master of none." And in truth, I should have left that cobbler in the oven for about 10 more minutes, but the berries were the true objective and they tasted good, particularly with the ice cream.

I don't feel too bad about the underdone cobbler. Benvenuto Cellini could never leave anything in the oven long enough either.

[Arugula Latte]

22. I think it's a little early for blackberries here in Oregon

late July, August, then you're in business. :P

[swag]

24. Thanks.

Appreciate it.

[Arugula Latte]

31. You know what else is good?

Fresh blackberry shakes from Burgerville. My sister visits from Cali in summer and she's always jonesing for those shakes.

[swag]

32. Gawd

I'll have a basket of those Walla Walla Sweet Onion Rings and a Blackberry Shake, in the unlikely event I am able to time it right.

[tigereye]

25. what do you live in a cave?

;)

got to go into the light, man....

I love blackberry pie! Damn. I made a really good peach-blueberry pie for 4th of July one year. mmmm.

[swag]

29. I bet you get blackberries in Pennsylvania,

don't you?

Are you going to make peach-blueberry pie next weekend?

[tigereye]

30. yeah

Raspberries and blackberries grew ,and still do, in the backyard when I was a kid. Maybe I will make a blackberry pie instead. How can it possibly 4th of July already, though? :(

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. I bought beautiful strawberries at the farmers market today....

And just had an incredibly good hothouse-grown tomato with dinner. Can't wait for the heirloom tomatoes at the place where the people have an organic farm about 120 miles SW of Chicago. It's a sort of farming commune populated with old farts who remember the 1960s and 1970s.

:D

[tigereye]

27. strawberries are the best

my son can eat them by the bucketful!