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Pomegranites. Lived in a house as a kid that had a tree, never ate them, too much trouble. I know the juice is popular but clueless how it is extracted, nothing but seeds.
The seeds are sweet/tart delicious. Now they're packaged and put in the refrigerator section of the stores. I wish they'd been there when I was a kid because our little tree never could keep up with the demand.
Or maybe it's just me. The forgotten vegetables is rutabaga. I like it, just don't think about getting one or pass it by. I just cooked one today, probably had for a few years or more.
Never had a turnip, I would have to Google how to fix one.
Any other veggies /fruit that are around but just not so popular or overlooked?
When cooking yellow turnips; try adding a few tablespoons of sugar to the water to cut the bitterness. Drain and mash with salt, butter, black pepper, and onion powder. My mother's recipe. Everyone in my family loved turnips fixed this way.
I don't know where you live now, but although I never see kumquats at the supermarket, there is a vendor at the farmer's market who has them in season.
I saw kumquats at Sprout's this week, but they were expensive at $3.99 for a small container.
wow, I don't think I ever even saw rhubarb as a kid, growing up in so. California. I had heard of it and when I met spoiled brat he raved about how good strawberry, rhubarb pie was. I do get it once in awhile now to make pie, but it is only available a couple of weeks in the spring and is super pricey here.
This is so funny to me, due to growing up with it as random crap growing around the yard. Asparagus, too. It cracks me up, the terrible, woody, old, bland asparagus bundled in grocery stores now and tagged with a premium price, when as a kid, I knew where all the best beds were to cut it fresh in the ditches of our network of gravel roads. No comparison.
But, it's probably similar to how people who grew up with avocado trees in their yards in California and similar think it's bizarre that we'd pay what we pay for 'em here.
Funny you should mention pawpaws. I just heard somewhere that it is the state fruit of Ohio, which is astonishing to me, because I lived there for 45 years and never heard of or saw a pawpaw.
We once had a casserole made of oyster plant, which I think is salsify, at a Shaker museum restaurant. It was very good, but I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
I grew up near a town NAMED Paw Paw, after a local paw paw patch.
i haven't had turnip in 35 years.....or squash or the little evil round green....peas ....i did put one pea on my plate in 2014 at a buffet but couldn't do it.... had to roll it off..
bacon wrapped corn on the cob.......is good (grilled)
i haven't had choke cherries since being a kid..... i guess that's a fruit...
raw carrots picked from a garden ....its been a while...
"...if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does." _ Captain Spaulding
I never had rhubarb
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