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And now to something totally different. I gave this plant to my husband as a birthday present a couple of years ago and it has finally produced this fruit (actually, it produced two of these).
Buddha's Hand, Buddha's Hand citron, or Fingered citron (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus) is a fragrant citrus fruit. It grows on a shrub or small tree with long, irregular branches covered in thorns. Its large, oblong leaves are pale green and grow about four to six inches. Its flowers are white or purplish and grow in fragrant clusters.
The fruit itself is a type of citron and is often described as lemon-like. The fruit is segmented into finger-like sections. It has a thick peel and a small amount of acidic flesh and is seedless and juiceless. It is very fragrant and is used predominantly by the Chinese and Japanese for perfuming rooms and personal items, such as clothing. (from Wikipedia).
I have just tried to refresh my knowledge of what the difference is between the "3 sisters": sultanas, raisins and currants (or maybe learn for the first time, after doing some reading I am now thinking that I never did know the difference and that what i thought I knew was actually wrong).
It is more complicated than I thought and they have a different use of these terms in USA and variations in processes in Australia!
Basically as best as I can workout & summarise:
All are, of course, dried grapes.
The differences are:
Raisins: the grape has been dried over several weeks and a dark brown colour develops during this slow drying. A wide variety of grape cultivars can be used to make raisins. They are quite soft. Sources say they are typically larger than sultanas and currants but I can see examples in my kitchen cupboard where this is not true.
Sultanas: are made from green seedless grapes especially the cultivar Thompson Seedless. The process of drying is different and involves coating in an oil-based dressing and fast drying time. Sultanas are usually lighter in colour than both raisins and currants. Sultanas are said to be smaller than raisins.
Currants: are the smallest and are made from small seedless grapes, The cultivars “Black Corinth” and “Carina” are the commonly used ones for currants. They are more tangy than raisins and sultanas and add more texture to cooked dishes.
I still feel a bit confused but I love eating sultanas and I dont feel I have to know/remember everything about them to keep loving them.
For the 125 pictures in 2025 group: number 116. Vine fruits
This Mortal Coil - You And Your Sister
The seeds seemed to be in a trance and moved to the fringe of the loaf - they then leaped into the abyss.
I noticed the seed migration when I went to the cupboard and grabbed the loaf of bread. I grabbed my camera and fired off some shots - this surely was one of nature's unique moments and I had to capture it for all to see. Perhaps I could have saved some seeds but who am I to interfere in nature's ways.
I realized later I may have been suffering from a mild case of PTSD ("post traumatic seed disorder"). In hindsight I should have attempted to save a couple of seeds. I may have to eat seedless bread from now on.
For this week's theme on Macro Mondays, which was... Less Than An Inch.
A so called berry (well, the raspberry), which is not a berry (but an aggregated stone fruit, according to my botany classes at university - the USEFUL stuff they teach you....), amongst seedless grapes...which, ironically, are berries (again, according to the botanists).
Nice colour contrast between the different, well, berries, and since the grape was less than a cm in diameter, the entire frame should definitely be... less than an inch.
And its food. Who's to argue with that....
Finally I made it.... :))
HMM!
It's a traditional sweet cereal...
Ingredients: Dovme(wurled wheat, ground wheat), Rice, Beans(dried), Chickpeas, Water, Apricot(dried), Figs(dried), Raisins(seedless), Sultanas, Currants, Almonds, Pine Nuts, Orange peel(or rind), Sugar, Orange, Rose Water, Walnuts, Pistachio nuts, Pomegranate, Cinnamon...
Though no longer seedless due to cross pollination by someone's dang honeybees, these little cuties have a flavor all their own.
Saturday Self Challenge
This week let's choose an orange coloured theme for our submissions. You may either have an orange coloured item as your main subject, or you can use orange as the main colour scheme for the whole image. There is a wide variety of ways you can portray the colour orange. You may even use selective colour to accent the orange, it is up to you.
I know it’s probably the most obvious orange coloured thing anyone could possible think of, but shortly before the challenge was posted we’d just had a home supermarket grocery delivery. These organic seedless oranges were in with the shopping and I thought one of them would be ideal for the challenge. I can also highly recommend them, they are just about the nicest I’ve ever tasted, though rather messy to eat.
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And the end of the year is nigh...
361/365 pictures in 2019
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1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons light oil, such as canola or safflower
1 pound radish, thinly sliced
1 seedless/seeded cucumber, thinly sliced
1 red bell pepper, seeded/very thinly or 2 carrots, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
20 fresh thai basil leaves
Handful chopped fresh cilantro
Mix vinegar, sugar, oil, herbs and red pepper flakes in a big bowl until sugar is melted. Toss in sliced veggies. Refrigerate at least an hour before serving to let it set. Toss and serve. Some people chop peanuts to put on top of each serving.
Mandarin oranges, sometimes simply called mandarins, are some of the sweetest fruits of the orange family. They're slightly smaller relatives of the standard orange. Native to Asia, China is the world's biggest producer. In the United States, mandarins are mostly grown in California, where citrus trees thrive in the warm sunshine. While mandarins are commonly eaten as snacks because they're easy to peel (some are virtually seedless), they're a popular citrus ingredient for desserts, seafood appetizers, and savory recipes, as well as adult beverages.
Green River Bluffs Trail
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.
This fern is aka christmas fern.
The title, "Water Splitters," refers to the chlorophyll (the green stuff in the fern cells), which splits water (H2O) and combines the hydrogen atoms with the greenhouse gas, CO2, and creates glucose, (C6H12O6), the universal fuel source for living things on this planet. That splitting of water also gives us O2, oxygen gas, which living things need to survive! So, let's plant more ferns, and trees, and other greenhouse gas-sucking plants. And let's produce fewer of those climate changing gases by reducing the burning of fossil fuels. Can the solution to the pollution of our air be that simple? Yes, it is! So, go out and plant some plants...now, and ride your bike to work!!
..my father would peel halve and de-seed grapes for me and my siblings to eat! Of course you couldn't get seedless grapes back then!
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a corm. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a false stem or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a stalk (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called hands), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3–20 tiers, or commercially as a banana stem, and can weigh 30–50 kilograms. Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or finger) average 125 grams, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter. The fruit has been described as a leathery berry. There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. 24980
.. love it-- the bag says "raisins verts sans pepins"
........ ODC fruits
this is actually very tiny-- maybe half the size of a dime in length
'Shine Muscat' is a large, sweet, seedless grape - a new grape cultivar in Japan.
The drinking glass is also hand-blown and the newest addition to my collection.
A fabulous weekend to all!
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315/365,
Wonderful, halos,
3lbs., 1.36 kg,
pure goodness, sweet, seedless, easy peel,
$8.00,
Over charged by $3.00
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
Here's Willow after scoffing down a few grapes, wearing an expression that suggests she wants more. We usually buy green seedless grapes for handing out as treats, but when they're not available and we're completely out, red seedless ones are bought. If you hold a single grape of both varieties in both hands the red one will disappear first. I really can't taste much difference... maybe the red ones being a bit sweeter, depending upon their age. She definitely can tell the difference though. Green grapes aren't rejected... they just get eaten after the red ones are gone.
Here she's shown with her plush winter coat... very thick, tightly "packed" and weather-proof. On cold mornings she puffs out her hair which makes her look larger than she is. Eating as well as she and all the other deer do, she's definitely no lightweight. Maple, her adopted daughter has a matching thick, warm winter coat.
Taken with my iPhone, a very convenient piece of camera equipment... always handy... very useful for getting quick "grab" shots.
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2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 stick (113 g) unsalted butter , melted
3 (223 g) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
3 large eggs, room temperature
1 egg yolk, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Raspberry puree made from frozen or fresh berries, seedless, sweetened
Preheat oven to 350F/180C, with rack in the center.
Stir graham crackers and butter. Press into 8-or9-inch springform pan. Bake until golden, ~10 minutes. Let cool completely.
Reduce oven temperature to 200F.
Mix cream cheese and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer using paddle attachment. Mix on medeium speed until lightened, ~3 minutes. Mix in eggs, 1 at a time. Mix in sour cream and vanilla extract in the end. Pour over crust in pan.
Drop teaspoons of raspberry puree over filling in a random pattern. Using a skewer, pull sauce through the filling, swirling decoratively.
Place pan into the oven and bake ~2 hours 30 minutes. Turn off the oven; let cheesecake remain in oven another 1 hour. Remove cheesecake from oven. Run a knife around top edge of cake to loosen and cool completely in springform pan on a rack. Chill cake, loosely covered, at least 6 hours. Remove side of pan and transfer cake to a plate.
Day 081 - 365/2023 - A Never-Ending Journey
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Nicknamed “The Honeybell” because of its bell shape, the Minneola tangelo is a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit. Its large size and slightly elongated “neck” make it easy to recognize. The most popular of the tangelos, seedless Minneolas are brimming with sweetly tart juice.
Located on the southern end of the Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge outside North Vernon, Indiana. One of the family of Meyer's developed a seedless persimmon that was popular throughout Indiana. Their log cabin is located just west of this pond.
That's what it says on the label stuck to the outside, along with "Seedless Watermelon". I've bought several of these, this size, in the past little while. These are either from Georgia or Florida. (The label didn't specify.) Very sweet, as I tasted. Now cooling off in the refrigerator...it is 97F outside today.
Taken with Polaroid Spectra SE and new PZ 680 film from The Impossible Project.
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― Toni Sorenson
HPPT! HBW!
cercis, seedless Chinese redbud, 'Don Egolf', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
"With a look that only a grower could love, the Sumo Citrus™ mandarin originated in Japan over forty years ago. Now Australians can enjoy locally grown, super sweet, easy to peel Sumo Citrus™ mandarins for a limited time only.
Available July to September each year, the mandarin-orange hybrid is enormously good to eat! Naturally large in size, it has a top knob with bright orange, bumpy and loose skin so it peels effortlessly.
The Sumo Citrus™ mandarin is seedless and low in acid meaning it's super sweet and juicy."