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Posted: Tue May 8th, 2007 10:33 pm |
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Five years I've waited for this tree to bloom and it is now in its glory! While taking pics of the blooms soon to be genipas I hope, Mr. Bee was already all over it. Far less than a perfect shot, but closer...a little bit closer.
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Posted: Tue May 8th, 2007 10:37 pm |
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| if you had Photoshop, you'd be there!!! great shot.....and congrats on the pending babies!!
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Posted: Tue May 8th, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Right now everything I spend $ on has to do with my brother's impending visit, which is FUN stuff! I'll get serious again later 
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 12:40 am |
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Did you mean Quenepas??  By the way my Flamboyan is starting to burst into color!! Bring the camera next week it should be fiery red by then.
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 01:13 am |
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Susie -- I had people in my store last week that had vacationed on Culebra a few weeks ago, and raved, and raved about Fox's Lair.....I told them I wasn't surprised at all!!! You go girl!
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 01:49 am |
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Thank's!
I love what I do and i'm hoping I can continue doing it for a long time...
Hoping you are well
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 01:57 am |
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Thanks, MJ -- I'll have mine peeled and soaked in rum and sugar, please!
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/04/13/tropical-fruit-spanish-limes-genips-quenepas-mamoncillos/
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 02:31 am |
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Thank's Debbie great info & site allway's interesting to a chef.
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 10:41 am |
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Yes, I DID mean quenepas! I constantly forget the spanish for what in the Virgin Islands is called genip's...tossing an a on the end...like forgetfulla mea! Or is that Italian?
Thanks, and please continue to correct my poor attempts at Espanol!
Debby, that was an interesting piece...I never heard them called Spanish Limes (which are...uh...spanish limes), and I never thought of the flesh as slimy or tasting like a lime, I'd say silky in texture and tasting more like along the lines of a melon flavor to me..and well worth the burst of taste for the work. Kids on St. Croix used to steal them off my trees, wrap up a bunch with a rag and sell them to me for a buck a bunch. Which I always bought...The kids here do the same thing (except not my trees) and I buy them too; great snack food, and always good when your mouth is full of the seed with juice dribbling down your chin when a tourist suddenly appears with a quiestion...
No prob with the rum soak, but the only way I know to open a quenepa/genip is to put it in my mouth and *crack* open the covering with my teeth...hope you don't mind.
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 11:54 am |
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Wow! That article got my curiousity going and I found this blog bit on the little jewel fruit and learned lots more...(I'm still, after being involved with the internet before there even WAS a WWW, amazed and delighted when I find a site like this...here are people from all over the place, with so many different life stories, gathered to have a discussion about this little fruit...schmazin'! A curiousity freak's dream come true). Thanks, Deb, for the poke in the arm.
http://imcookinhere.blogspot.com/2004/08/spanish-limes-genips-quenepas.html
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 12:24 pm |
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Google is my best friend.
Hmm - quenepas shooters - pop the fruit, chase with rum and sugar?
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