One thing I am loving about living in Hawaii is the endless array of new foods to enjoy. Dragonfruit, starfruit, rambutan, lychee, longan, lilikoi and the list goes on.I try to eat as healthy as we can afford to and it really helps when good food like this grows on trees where we can get it for free! Or, like last night, when sweet friends bring some to share. This photo on the left is of longan (pronounced like long-gone). I don't know what family of fruits this falls under, but it reminds me very much of lychee and rambutan, which is pictured on the right.
Who would ever guess that such things were edible? Both of these fruits have a hard outer shell and a soft fruit inside with a pit. This photo below is of the inside of a longan fruit.
To compare it to any other food I'm familiar with, I'd say it's most like a grape on the inside. Someday when we own our own home (hopefully in Hawaii, but who knows), I look forward to planting as many fruit-bearing trees as possible. I've never had much of a green thumb, but if I can't learn in Hawaii I don't know where I ever would!
4 comments:
So what do you make with those funky fruits?? :)
Nothing - they're just a snack, like grapes. You can make jellies out of them and I've heard of people freezing them and eating them for dessert too.
We have a huge Hawaiian population in our community - it is probably the biggest ethnicity (Japanese/Hawaiian). I see these fruits a lot at our Farmer's Market. Knowing that you say they are good makes me more willing to try them! :)
I love that you can just go pick stuff like that out of the trees, I bet it is fun for the kids too. We like to go in the woods here and pick raspberries but it is such a short season. You probably get stuff year round there.
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