Joe left a bag of grapefruit and oranges grown at his house in Phoenix. A plastic grocery bag stuffed full. The handle of the bag stretched by the weight of the citrus fruit.
Showing posts with label grapefruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grapefruit. Show all posts
Grapefruit, yogurt, pine nuts
Hey, flies are buzzing around my grapefruit.
These pine nuts were seen at the grocery in a small webbed bag. They turned out to be the kind still in their shells. They had to be roasted to be opened and several exploded. I thought the explosions would help to get the shells off but it destroyed them completely and made a huge mess of the oven. Shame I didn't realize that sooner. I can be thick sometimes, hearing all those explosions and imagining that it was helping.
I saw a thing while skipping through the channels. An old woman somewhere in the Southwest, possibly New Mexico, crawling around the base of shrubs. It was very odd to see a woman down there scrounging around under a desert bush. The camera came in close and low to the ground in the shade of the bush. The old woman was picking these pine nuts. They come from short gnarly shrubs. I tried to imagine my own Nana going directly to where all creatures go in the desert, to the nearest available shade, and beat them all there to the pine nuts that have fallen. Then sell them to someone who sells them to someone who sells them to someone who sells them to me. Thanks Nana lady in the desert.
Blueberry yogurt.
Apparently grapefruit are no longer sour. I enjoyed this a lot and there was no preparation.
Salad, grapefruit, carrot, courgette and flavored tofu
With tofu.
Plain grapefruit juice tests 3
Combined dressing tests 4
Slightly less acidic. This is what was expected.
And lo, thine eyes behold and pour over a brand new thing bequest unto all mankind upon which I stake my hard-won reputation and reinforce my natural birthright claim to the title King of Salads.
Behold! I said, Bitches.
No srsly, I mean it.
This has got to be one of my better inventions. The edge knocked off grapefruit juice with something sweet, here mirin, but it doesn't have to be. It could be honey, sugar, or anything you can think of that is sweet. I think modern grapefruit are not as sour as they were in olden days of yore. I recall watching my mother, in focus beyond the sippy cup on my highchair tray, sprinkling grapefruit halves with sugar and letting it soak in overnight to counteract the extreme unbearable sourness, but these grapefruit can be eaten without any adjustment at all. On the other hand, maybe grapefruit stayed the same and my taste buds have changed dramatically since then. Who knows? What do I look like, an agricultural genetic history major over here?
The dressing can contain oil of any kind or none at all. Here olive oil is drizzled in near trace amount. Salt and pepper added to individual tastes at the table. Carrots are sweeter than you might imagine, maybe not, but they do contribute significant sugar when left to marinate for an hour or so. They tenderize slightly. All of that is transported into the courgette which is quite tender and readily takes up anything it soaks in. The grapefruit acid would wilt any lettuce so that is held off until the very end.
Tofu is marinated separately, here with stronger flavors, the usual favorite Asian additives, soy, sake, mirin, chile pepper flakes in water. It was all discarded after marination, and that did seem a waste. Maybe it could be worked into a dressing of its own. The oddest thing though, the chile peppers could not be tasted at all while eating the salad which was bright and happy and all smiley like something tossed up for children, then when it was all gone the heat from the chile peppers suddenly became apparent as if it would not be denied but unable to adequately express itself in all that sunshine and happiness. After the salad was completely consumed the lasting residual heat built and built and built until finally POW, oh, now we're feeling it!
Review: sweet, sour, salt, umami.
(salt and umami from soy sauce marinated into the tofu, in case you were wondering. )
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