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[aslant]

damn you, 2/$4 cantaloupes, why are you not as sweet and tasty as i wanted you to be? i shall console myself in the arms of my $2.99/lb cherries. sigh.

did anyone put salt and/or pepper on fruit, growing up? kirk's family grew acres & acres of cantaloupes, some years, and they would eat them every night after dinner, with salt & pepper on top. i never knew about putting salt on watermelon until he taught me. until very recently, i thought putting sugar on strawberries was pretty weird, but now it seems to be the norm. my favorite thing is to soak them in a mixture of basalmic vinegar & sugar, which is a caterer's trick to make the strawberries look riper. but the taste is pretty fantastic, too.

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[thistle.livejournal.com]

i'm going to try that with strawberries.

[ex-mthrtong.livejournal.com]

salting fruit must be a southernish thing, cos we always did it when i was a kid too, but i've gotten alot of weird looks/comments about it since moving out of kentucky. i introduced conan to salted watermelon & cantaloupe--i'm also a big fan of salting apples. (i've personally never really liked the addition of pepper, but my parents & grandparents always ate melon that way.)

[onezen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, how much balsamic vinegar and sugar shoud one use? I really like the sounds of that :-) Thank you!

[aslant.livejournal.com]

for a quart of strawberries, maybe 2-3 small spoonfuls of basalmic vinegar, and then enough sugar sprinkled on top & mixed so it tastes good. there are fancier ways of doing this with a heated version in a saucepan, with wine and basalmic v and sugar, etc, but i don't know that one by heart, just saw it on 'america's test kitchen' once.


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okay, i found it on their website [registration required], since i remembered it: heat 1/3 c basalmic vingar + 2tsp sugar + 1/2 tsp lemon juice in a saucepan on medium. simmer 3 minutes, or until reduced by half. toss mixture with 3 pints strawberries & 1/4 c packed light brown sugar. their recipe also includes pepper, but i'll skip that because i'm still weirded out by it.

[onezen.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you are most kind! Than you! I am headed to the kitchen right now :-)

[tasteetriceps.livejournal.com]

Mmm, summer fruit's the best!...but not just yet...

My mom also dashed salt on things--which i, having a real taste for the sweet, never understood.

Wish i could ship you some beautiful Mt Hood strawberries about now. Any chance of a visit if not of a move?

[aslant.livejournal.com]

my mom was taunting me (unintentionally) on the phone, talking about a nursing colleague who had brought her a pint of amazing strawberries from a backyard. oh yum. &: my parents' house has an acre of wild blackberries behind their house & on the hillside, and they are the size of a big toe & so so good to stuff yrself with on a hot summer afternoon. *sigh*

i don't foresee any visitin' any time soon, sadly. the next travelling is allocated to major holidays; i think we are sitting out thanksgiving (no thanks, coach) and going to texas for christmas.

[kleinekatze.livejournal.com]

hey jesse...remember when we put italian dressing on honey dew melon? and how yummy it was to have the extreme sweet and then the extreme bitter? or the peanut butter and munster cheese on graham crackers? yummmmmmy. it tasted like chocolate.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

wow---i totally forgot about the italian dressing/honey dew experiment. wow. did i ever tell you what my psycho first-summer-in-boston, horrible-heat favorite foot was? bits of blue cheese (yes, the mouldy kind) on cold, refridgerated prunes. can you believe that? but oh god it was so yummy.

man. i don't know what it is about our family that inspires me to do such crazy things at the dinner table. maybe we have psycho-angry outbursts, but we do have our occasional crazy-funny outbursts sometimes, don't we?

[kleinekatze.livejournal.com]

yeah, sometimes i think we have more than our share of crazy/fun outbursts...i don't know why things have been so difficult lately. it kinda freaks me out. whatev.

love you.