We used to watch a program on the BBC about wines… There were two enthusiastic presenters, a woman with blond curly hair and a more or less bald man. As they tasted the wines they would always start to contemplate their first sip and then cry out hmmm nutty, hmm hmm fruity…. As I provide the nutty bit of life myself… all I need to get is the fruity side.
But there are also more fruits. Acerola; a kind of cherries for making juice or jelly. Maracuja; the fruit of the passionflower.
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| Yellow (unripe) caqui, red acrerolas, green maracuja.... |
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| Juice of acerola |
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| Mamão = papaya |
I love the mamãos; that we call papaya. The seeds are so beautiful (don't eat them).
Then there are the real exotic fruits: Fruta de conde (fruit of the count); a very messy fruit. I wonder what count had time to eat that one. They look like little porcupines. This should at least make you be ware. Innumerable little seeds hidden in the white flesh.
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| Frute de conde = fruit of the count |
Red caqui that is delicious and easy to eat. I was presented one that was still yellow (fresh from the tree), but in no time it became ripe and red like a tomato.
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| Caqui and frute de conde in the market |
Sometimes we buy pinhão. The giant seeds of huge pine cones from large pine trees. First cook them for a good hour and then you peel them and eat them. They taste very good with a glass of wine.
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| Huge pine cones |
At the market the fruit is fresh and cheap. Don’t forget to sit down and drink some água de côco (coconut milk) before you go home…..
