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  • From: "Bruce Hansen" <brucedhansen@sbcglobal.net>
  • To: "Mike Levine" <crunchy@oldweb.com>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] fruit can help us stay positive during the darkest days of winter/which preserved fruit should I eat first
  • Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:55:57 -0500

As a Scandinavian, I have always found a good remedy for the short days of
winter in whiskey and a good argument

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Mike Levine
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:22 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] fruit can help us stay positive during the darkest days
ofwinter/which preserved fruit should I eat first


Hi folks,
I for one get pretty depressed in the short days of December and often I
look to the available food to help cheer me up. I always have trouble
deciding what order to eat the things I have preserved. I have a nasty
habit of saving and saving and saving things until they are almost in season
again. I haven't touched the frozen pesto, persimmons, pawpaws,
blueberries, or raspberries yet. I'm not sure why....

There's a nationwide tomato shortage (so I've read), but I've still got tons
of ripening tomatoes on the kitchen table. Still, for some reason I am just
not tempted by them or by my home-grown potatoes. I think I am more
sensitive to solanaceous compounds than others. I also wasted a whole bunch
of my onions and watched as they sprouted/rotted away. Wish I had a root
cellar or a bigger fridge.

I have been working on the storage pears I got from Gordon's lawn a couple
months ago and they are just coming into their prime now. BTW, I'm really
sorry to see Gordon leave the list, he's a real asset and has done a lot to
get me interested in fruits and nuts that I wouldn't have explored without
him. Perhaps we can all do our best to make the list more welcoming,
dynamic, and interesting to all levels of fruit expertise. I always find it
fascinating.

I've noticed a seasonality to people's moods on this list and would like to
start a thread about how fruit consumption can temper this grumpiness
effect. What fruit chases your winter blues away? (and how long does it
last). I know that when I do hit those raspberries, it will surely chase my
winter blues away for at least the day. Recipe is just to heat frozen
raspberries (briefly) with a little water and honey, then drizzle hot over
organic vanilla ice cream.

Does anyone have ideas for a system for deciding what order to eat their
preserved/frozen fruit/canned goods? I suspect certain ones are associated
with certain holidays for certain people. I'm also wondering if some folks
wait to use certain preserved fruits in recipes that also require fruits
that are only available in winter (for example, pomegranate, certain citrus,
N. american grown kiwis, or perhaps some southern fruit I haven't
mentioned). I'm interested in what keeps the longest and still tastes good.
Where is the point of diminishing returns in flavor for dried/canned/frozen
fruit?

Mike Levine
Ann Arbor, MI Zone 5b


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