Re: Fruit, wonderful fruit!

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In a message dated 8/21/2004 12:13:50 AM Central Standard Time,

firecoupleinca@... writes:

MMMmmmm...just got a bagful of freshly picked purple plums and they

are heavenly.....even our dogs eat fruit, they love it and beg for

it! (Gotta fight them for the watermelon and our littelest throws her

grapes in the air and plays catch with them before she eats them)

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When we lived in East Gadsden several years ago, we had 2 Basset hounds. they

were long dogs but very athletic for thier short stumpy bodies. One day I was

washing dishes and looked out the kitchen window and saw the bassets in the

back yard on their hind legs standing up. I got Tom's attention and asked what

they were doing.... he looked out and told me they were eating the ripe figs

off the fig tree(not bush...Too big) Idiots dogs didn't know they were supposed

to not like figs.

who was feeding a sliced grape to Jean(stephen's

iguanna)

Ps...What the heck is a pluot? i saw them at food world but didn't know what

they were.

[Guest guest]

Pluots are a newly developed fruit, a hybrid plum/apricot. They have

several different varieties and the ones we have tried so far are

WONDERFUL! The first we had were at Rays daughters wedding (her

husband works at a packing plant) and they were very large and fleshy

and dappled pink (these were called " dappled dandies " ) but the flesh

was clear like a plum and they tasted like a sweet golden red plum,

very sweet, a bit of a tang, with a mild apricot flavor. There are

several different varieties and the ones we had the other day were

more reddish purple, smaller, but also a clear, sweet flesh, tangy

and very much like a plum, but still with that bit of apricot tang.

We have become addicted to them and even here where they were

developed and grown just miles away they are hard to find except at

farmers markets, roadside fruitstands, and independant markets. We

are headed to the local farmers Market Thursday just to find more of

them!

Pluots are well worth trying! If you get the chance grab one! The

good thing about them growing just miles from us is when we do find

them, they are not refrigerated, and we can get them fresh off the

trees!

Cindee

> In a message dated 8/21/2004 12:13:50 AM Central Standard Time,

> firecoupleinca@y... writes:

> MMMmmmm...just got a bagful of freshly picked purple plums and they

> are heavenly.....even our dogs eat fruit, they love it and beg for

> it! (Gotta fight them for the watermelon and our littelest throws

her

> grapes in the air and plays catch with them before she eats them)

> _____________________________________________

> When we lived in East Gadsden several years ago, we had 2 Basset

hounds. they

> were long dogs but very athletic for thier short stumpy bodies. One

day I was

> washing dishes and looked out the kitchen window and saw the

bassets in the

> back yard on their hind legs standing up. I got Tom's attention and

asked what

> they were doing.... he looked out and told me they were eating the

ripe figs

> off the fig tree(not bush...Too big) Idiots dogs didn't know they

were supposed

> to not like figs.

>

> who was feeding a sliced grape to Jean

(stephen's

> iguanna)

>

> Ps...What the heck is a pluot? i saw them at food world but didn't

know what

> they were.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

We found the Pluots here for 69 cents a pound the other day, and

grapes at 79 cents a pound! I brought home a half a grocery bag full

of purple plums for $3 today and watermelons are only $1.99 each! The

one good thing about living here is that fruit is so darn cheap,

especially if we go to a roadside stand! We can buy flats of

strawberries for $7 and peaches and nectarines are so cheap they are

almost giving them away (lots of friends ARE from their backyard

trees) I wish we could mail them to you! LOL, but I think they might

get a little soggy and soft by the time they got to ya! You need to

come back out here during the picking season sometime and just cruise

the ag areas and hit the local fruitstands and munch fruit til you

are so sick of it you won't crave it for a year at least!

I hate the heat here and the air quality, and the water that smells

like rotten eggs, but I have to admit, the local fruits and

vegetables make it all worthwhile occasionally! We have fresh tomato

fields as well as orchard after orchard of every fruit you can

imagine from plums to peaches and nectarines, apricots, and even

those pesky pomegranets (they GIVE those things away by the bag

around here!) all within 3 or 4 miles of home. There are walk up

stands where you can grab a flat or a bag and slip your money into a

little box with a slot, and there are larger fruit stand with dozens

of types of fruits and veggies....you would love it!!!

LOL, I brought home a dozen large pluots from the wedding thinking

thsat only Ray and I would like them, the kids wiped them out in 10

minutes! That half a grocery bag of plums we got at 6 this evening?

Gone by 11pm! Thank God they are so cheap, my kids eat them non-stop

til they are gone!

Try a Pluot! I hope they are as soft and ripe out there as they are

here! (I am always afraid to try store bought fruit because it just

isn't the same as fresh picked!) Bt if they are as good as the ones

we tried, and you like plums, you will love them!

OK, I am finishing the last of MY plums and heading to bed!

Night all!!

> In a message dated 8/21/2004 1:20:59 AM Central Standard Time,

> firecoupleinca@y... writes:

> Pluots are well worth trying! If you get the chance grab one! The

> good thing about them growing just miles from us is when we do find

> them, they are not refrigerated, and we can get them fresh off the

> trees!

>

> Cindee

> __________________________________________________

> I've seen a few of them lately. They were so pricey, That I was

afraid to try

> it afraid it would be too much cost for something noone would eat.

I might

> have to splurge and get one.

> BTW did I ever tell Tracey(I think it was her?) that I liked

the

> artichokes, but was the only one?

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Cindee!

What the heck is a pluot? I'm always up for trying a new fruit!

Sigh...you lucky gal! You got smaller than you actually wanted to

be. Oh well, I'm just gonna have to get to a size 10/12 the hard

way.

Hugs!

Tracey

> > > In a message dated 8/20/2004 9:51:55 PM Central Standard Time,

> > > snurfles2@c... writes:

> > > Also, I would

> > > back off the fruit. I ALWAYS have the runs when I eat too

much

> > > fruit and in the early days it caused me real problems with

gas,

> > as

> > > well.

> > > ______________________________________

> > > Tracey,

> > > I said the same thing about the ruit...Then I ate a bunch

of

> > muscadines

> > > the next night. True to my word, The diarrhea came and went.

I'm

> > so glad it's

> > > summer. I'm on a fruit kick....It just stops my losses so bad.

> I'm

> > either

> > > eating eggs or fruit. I need to make it just eggs and

eliminate

> > the fruit if I want

> > > to lose 10 more pounds in the next 4 weeks.

> >

>

>

> >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Hi Mel! No, you didn't tell me! Sorry to hear that you were the

only one but hey! That's more for you!!! I know they're not for

everyone but for me, they are a little piece of heaven!

Hugs!

Tracey

> __________________________________________________

> I've seen a few of them lately. They were so pricey, That I was

afraid to try

> it afraid it would be too much cost for something noone would eat.

I might

> have to splurge and get one.

> BTW did I ever tell Tracey(I think it was her?) that I liked

the

> artichokes, but was the only one?

>

>

>

>

>