What's your favorite citrus fruit?
These fruits vary in taste from extra-sweet to mouth-puckering & get an A+ for high vitamin C. Many are peeled & segments eaten out of hand. Others find their way into marinades, dressings, entrees, garnishes, an empty rind can be a container for sorbet or salad & zest is grated into many recipes, too. Better tasting & more plentiful during winter months---my favorite is the Texas grapefruit! What's your selection & uses for the citrus family?
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9 Comments:
Florida's Indian River ruby red grapefruit, cut in half and sprinkled with just a little sugar. I could eat (and have eaten) like 4 of these in one sitting :-)
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 4:02PM on 10/06/07
I love clementines always. Blood oranges can be good, but I find the sunkist ones to be a little bland. I always have lemons at home, they are endlessly usefull.
coolname at 11:05PM on 10/06/07
Very, very difficult to choose. I collect lemons as well as use them in food; it's hard for me to choose between a chocolate and a lemon dessert when in a restaurant, but the lemon usually wins out. I've gotten more enamored of limes as I've explored Asian cooking, and I always loved a little fresh lime in a (real) Coke. Grapefruit on a dreary winter morning is as good as sunshine. Won't touch orange juice from the store; if I can't squeeze it myself for immediate consumption, I won't have it at all. It's like wine, loses its character after it sits for too long. But I am probably the MOST enamored of the juice of Mineolas or Honeybells, tangelos that are a grapefruit-tangerine cross. Sigh...one of the (few) good things about winter.
lemons at 11:47PM on 10/06/07
For some reason, I don't like orange flavor or eating oranges (usually), and clementines are pretty seasonal. Lemons, on the other hand, have the most delicious smell on earth and are a wonderful spice/seasoning, and they're perfect materials to use in still lifes! ; )
Christina at 3:31PM on 10/07/07
Thanks for everyone revealing their citrus preference!
lemons--do you keep a bowl of lemons out just for decoration? I think it is so cool to have a food named after you :)
Must say, the best use for Key lime is in the pie!
JEP at 6:04PM on 10/07/07
I have a dark blue enamel colander full of various artificial lemons collected from various places or given me by friends - plus LOTS more. At brunch on Sunday I used a tablecloth from the south of France, sugar and creamer, a small creamer (gift from a pal in Wales; hi, Judith!) for the maple syrup, and cups and saucers all with lemons. You can detect a theme in my dining room and kitchen pretty easily.
lemons at 2:48AM on 10/08/07
Grapefruit by far! I love eating grapefruit for breakfast in the morning with some sugar sprinkled on top...I also like lemons and limes for adding extra flavor to foods.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 7:40PM on 10/08/07
tangerines
Dreamzoxo at 9:18PM on 10/08/07
A toss between Texas ruby grapefruit and tangellos, whichever is ripe at the time. I love citrus. My kitchen is a soft golden yellow, with oak floors and cabinets, and smokey blue/gray countertops. Over the bay window (not an actual bay - the walls are bowed like a bay) I have put white cordless cellular blinds. The pis-de-resitance are the 'awnings' over the blinds - Waverly fabric of grapefruit, oranges, and pears! Very citrus, very French country, very sophisticated!
Michigander at 10:28PM on 10/08/07