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Post by mei on Mar 29, 2015 15:10:18 GMT -5
I have about 8 kiwifruits, a LOT of inca berries, lots of pears (but they don't seem to be ripe yet, still quite hard), a huge mango and a grapefruit.
what can I do with this?? the kiwi's are nearly overripe, as is the mango.
I don't eat a lot of fruit as it is (only in yoghurt, or maybe an apple sometimes) so I'm stuck. everyone tells me to make smoothies but I never make smoothies (wouldn't know how). so, what else can I do to get rid of this??
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 29, 2015 19:36:06 GMT -5
Make chutney!
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Post by mei on Mar 30, 2015 4:48:21 GMT -5
Of what? And how?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 30, 2015 4:52:19 GMT -5
Do you have a big enough freezer to do some purees and freeze them?
Oh, and I've made some kiwifruit muffins before, they were yummy!
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Post by mei on Mar 30, 2015 6:27:59 GMT -5
clearly I really am clueless about fruit. what would I do with frozen pureed fruit?
do you have a recipe for the kiwifruit muffins?
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Post by mei on Mar 30, 2015 10:26:02 GMT -5
so after some research, I'll bake kiwi muffins, make mango chutney to go with a curry later this week, and use some more fruit in a chicory salad for (part of) dinner tonight. hopefully some of the pear I can use in a pasta & blue cheese dinner this week too.
and a good reminder NOT to order this veggie (and fruit) box again... I can't handle not knowing what I'm getting, and then being stuck with this much fruit.
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Post by snowwhite on Mar 30, 2015 13:19:44 GMT -5
Pears can be good cooked in red wine, especially if they don't seem to be getting soft.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 30, 2015 15:48:34 GMT -5
Have you found a recipe? I can't remember which one I used, there are so many out there!
The purees I'd use in other cooking or stir through porridge or in fruit salads etc at a later date. Or again, use as smoothies.
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Post by mei on Mar 30, 2015 15:56:39 GMT -5
yes, found a recipe. just getting them out of the oven now, though not too sure what I think... (put them back in for 10 minutes when I tried one which wasn't quite cooked through).
also not too sure about the chutney that should be nearly done...
it's not a good food week. a chicory dish I made on Saturday was also a complete failure.
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Post by tucano on Mar 30, 2015 16:18:19 GMT -5
Not keen on baked fruit so no ideas.
I had to look up inca berries. Called physalis here but not very common.
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Post by mei on Mar 30, 2015 16:29:13 GMT -5
yeah, those I still have no clue with what to do with. I used them in yoghurt & muesli yesterday but didn't like it much. supposed to be good in smoothies (but well, see OP). (and had assumed they'd be called the same in English, clearly not. I think it's some kind of 'superfood')
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 30, 2015 20:35:54 GMT -5
This is why we don't get a CSA, cool as they are - I just can't cope with random assortments of fruit and veg! I worry that it would all go bad.
If you still have any pears left, put them in a paper bag to help them ripen and then slice them up and eat them with thin slices of good cheese. I can eat countless pears if there's just a little nice cheese. You can also make pear puree that's like applesauce- I cut them up and put them in a pot and just boil the crap out of them, add some raisins if you like; I use apple cider to boil them in, then add some cinnamon and cloves. That's nice to top with a dollop of yogurt or put on top of cottage cheese or eat with bread or something. And you can freeze it.
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 30, 2015 21:45:58 GMT -5
Inca berries are called cape gooseberries here - they're actually a weed in one area of the state - I was shocked at how they had taken over the natural bushland in the Margaret River area when I visited last year.
Anyway, I would use them in the chutney too, but obvs too late. They are related to tomatilloes, btw, they have the same papery outer shell on the bush.
I made a pear and blue cheese pizza on the weekend - you can also add prosciutto to that if you eat meat.
Probably what I would have done is made a pear and inca berry chutney. Eaten the mango as is, or made mango sticky rice, the kiwi fruit I would probably have just eaten as is too, unless they were too ripe (soft) and then I would just make into a smoothy or a mini lot of jam (with the grapefruit).
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Post by mei on Mar 31, 2015 1:13:10 GMT -5
I wish that would've been your first reply, womba3! ;-)
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