California Weather

[pflaming]

Had to get a blanket, woke up cold: On sunday next it is predicted to be 100 degrees! That will make the fruit get ripe. OH by the way, the California fruit is especially sweet this year. Try some.

[BobT-47P15]

Been cooler, and wetter, around here in Missouri so far this year.  Don't know about the effect on the produce, however.

[Don Coatney]

What is the brix numbers on the California fruit this year?

[48Dodger]

Wow Don.....you know what a brix number is? very impressed.

 

48D

[Don Coatney]

Dont you have a refractometer in your tool box? Or do you have a sling psychrometer?

[48Dodger]

Psychrometer??? Thats old school......I use a Dew Point Guage aka Dewpoint. And as far as Pressure/Brix....I just take a bite. lol.

 

48D

[Plymouthy Adams]

^{AS the majority of folks get their fruit far from the grower..the BRIX is irrelevant, either you like and eat it or dislike and chunk it as garbage..}

[pflaming]

"Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is the sugar content of an aqueous solution. One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution and represents the strength of the solution as percentage by weight (% w/w)." Grower/packers are very conscious of Tim's comment. If a customer dislikes the taste of a piece of fruit, studies show that he will not buy that fruit again for 12 - 16 days. The brix degree then is measured before the fruit is picked. Once the sugar content is in the fruit, it never declines. So that dried fruit does NOT lose any of its brix content.

 

Put your fruit in a brown paper bag, which breaths, with half a banana overnite and you will be amazed at the taste.

 

Fruit does not help armadilla meat however, that takes good strong whiskey!

[Plymouthy Adams]

personally I do not like ripe fruit..I like  it with just a tad of tart taste...I also do not buy Washington state apples as to me they are tasteless mushy pulp..I eat few apples as I tend to wait till the eastern tree produce..last plums and nectarines I bought was about the same tasteless blob of pulp..12-16 days in not a standard in my book..my non buying rends are quite a bit lengthier....only fruit lately I think is a taste value are cherries..

[Don Coatney]

I like cheeries but it is hard to digest the pitts.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Don...I see you have done what I refuse to do...grow up..everyone knows the pits are the better ammo for a peas-shooter seeing as how they are left over anyway...(when cheeries are out of season..use uncooked tapioca)

 

bazinga..

Edited May 29, 2013 by Plymouthy Adams

[48Dodger]

Being around wineries a good part of my life......I've learned a lot.

 

I like bananas.....I don't drink wine.

 

48D

[TennesseeVol51]

Cantaloupe's and Mushmelons are my favorite--I can eat them till I get sick--I ate 2 huge one's this weekend!! They were so sweet!!

 

I also like a good seedless green grapes.

[Plymouthy Adams]

awe but as by your name you (family members) may well be from the small farms of the rural Tennessee area.....I say this to ask if you remember the old time banana melons.....similar in color and taste to the cantaloupe but long and curved...I wish to find some seed from these been umpteen years since I have seen much less tasted one..

[TennesseeVol51]

^{Here you go  http://www.rareseeds.com/banana-melon/   I had them many years ago back in the 80's but I had forgotten about them.}

 

 ^{Last year we mainly stuck to Tomatoes we had 110 tomato plants I was still getting ripe tomatoes plum until about November 15th.}

[48Dodger]

Banana Melons....wow, nice.

 

I feel like I'm saying something that might get my mouth wershed out mit soap...lol.  

 

But really, those look good!

 

48D

[48Dodger]

Oh yes....when talking to my ma about how smart DC is.....she mention a lil saying from her youth. 

 

"A smart man knows a tomato is a fruit, but a wise man knows not to put it in a fruit salad" 

 

 

48D

[Don Coatney]

Ever have a peanut butter and tomato jelly sandwich?  Yummy!

[pflaming]

Don, add a slice of armadillo jerky for a touch of salt. It's called an "Adams Apple Sandwich"! 

[Plymouthy Adams]

came into the back room with a sandwich, mums ask what I was eating, peanut butter, dill pickle and onion sandwich...eeeeeew she says.....you would think after 20+ years she would know better than believe that....I do not ruin good peanut butter with other additivies

[Don Coatney]

I was really disapointed when I toured Graceland. I did not see any bread, bannanas, nor peanut butter in the kitchen.

[TennesseeVol51]

Ever have a peanut butter and tomato jelly sandwich?  Yummy!

 

This sounds interesting,I will have to try it.

 

Try this---

open a can of sliced pineapple--the kind with the hole in the middle.

get 2 pieces of bread

put Mayo on both pieces of bread

put one piece of cheese

Close them up

Get your cast iron skillet and put in a little butter and fry the pineapple sandwich--I think you will love it--give it a try--it is both sweet and savory.Although I am sure your doctor would not recommend it!!

[pflaming]

I just finished my first bowl of Wheaties and fresh sliced peaches. One of my favorite summer meals. If the misses is gone at lunch time I often have a bowl of wheaties. I need to have Plymouthy save me a dilla shell, I could line that with K B and use it for my bowl.

[Don Coatney]

Kinda early for fresh peaches even in Fornia?

[Scruffy49]

Tim, WA apples are crap because the best of the crop is shipped to Europe and Asia. The domestic market gets grade B, except for WA, which gets grade C or D, anything worse than that goes to China and comes back as juice concentrate, applesauce, etc. Yep, you read that right, China. I've hauled countless reefer containers to the piers in Seattle and Tacoma with top quality apples, cherries and pears in them. And hauled many a dry box of supposed to be shipped refrigerated/frozen (in stainless or plastic drums) juice concentrate unlined mild steel drums from the piers to the various cold storage warehouses that dole them out to the juice makers. I won't touch apple products unless the fruit came from local trees. Oh, Tree Top is THE worst offender when it comes to crappy handling processes...