I Love Fruit Almost As Much As I Love Vegetables

I love eating fruit almost as much as I love eating vegetables, and I really love eating vegetables.

There are so many fruits that I love to eat, so it was not easy to only name five. However, I did my best and here’s the list:

Apples

Apples. As a fruit, apples are plain, simple and common enough, but as a food? They’re so versatile. I make apple sauce and can it every year. I have an on-going apple cider vinegar made with wild apples. I only need to replace the apples in it once a year. I bake apple pie, make apple cake, curry… I make apple juice and of course I eat the apples as they are. Apples are amazing and an annual staple for me. I grow them and I forage for them.

Bananas

Bananas also made the list. But not any bananas though. I don’t really like the small ones that are very sweet. And unlike others, I actually like them when they have a bit of green to them. Even more so when they’re cold. But I do love bananas in general. Because as soon as they start to brown, that means the magic has begun. I can make pancakes, waffles, chocolate chip banana bread, chocolate ice cream, smoothies, chocolate cake… the list goes on. I also like to remove the peels, cut the bananas into pieces and freeze them. I either dry the banana peels and use them as fertiliser, or I use them to make liquid fertiliser. Or I turn them into pacon.

When the bananas are frozen, I blend them with some cocoa powder and date syrup to make chocolate ice cream. I either eat the chocolate ice cream as is, or I eat it with puffed, roasted buckwheat. It’s a real treat.

Peaches

Peaches. Heh, I can’t even type it without hearing Jack Black belting it in my head.

I don’t have a peach tree, nor do peaches grow well here. I had one, one upon a time, but I bought it just before fall and the roots froze during winter. So when peaches are in season, I wait for the discounts and then I buy as many kilograms as I can afford. I eat them as they are and I also preserve them. I use the peels and the seeds to make syrup and vinegar. I can peach halves/pieces in medium syrup and that way I get to eat peaches throughout fall and winter. The used syrup I can reuse in drinks – alcoholic and non-alcoholic – or I can use it to make sorbet. I did grow a few peach plants from seeds last year, but they died. I might try it again this year, but this time I will raise them hydroponically instead. I think they’ll do better that way.

Physalis

Physalis is certainly one of my favourites. While I only get to eat them a few times a year, they make the list.

This year I am growing my own. I think their growing process is similar to that of tomatillos, so I should be okay. The tomatillo plants loved the greenhouse last year (they grew massive), so hopefully the physalis plants will like it there too.

Watermelon

Watermelon is bliss on a hot summer day. I split it in half and eat it with a spoon. Or I place it with the cut half against the chopping board and I gently cut away the outer layer of the peel with a sharp knife. If I have access to a blender, I use the peels to make watermelon peel juice. Then I cut the watermelon into pieces and I eat it all.

Watermelon is amazing. I hope the day will come when I have so much watermelon to use up that I can actually make watermelon juice, fruit leather and sorbet after I’ve had my fill of plain watermelon.

What are your favourite fruits?

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