Tag: fruit

Mud Blend

NIKON_D5100_20131211_85_mm_ISO_200_1-125_sec_at_f_-_2.8<br/>Images by Khürt Williams

One of the things I hate about winter is the lack of fruit. During the spring and the summer the grocery stores and farmers markets are filled with all sorts of fruit. I love being able to make my morning fruit blends with a combination of berries and tropical fruits. In the winter time my options are very limited by whatever can be imported. Currently I am using frozen fruit packs. It's not the same as fresh.

Today's Vitamix blend is a mixture of spinach and Welch's frozen four berries mix. The berries are strawberries, blackberries, blue berries and raspberries.

Buy the Cup Hawaiian Kona

It seems that half a pound of coffee beans is just the right amount for our household. Bhavana's on a special elimination diet for the next few weeks, so I've drunk her share. She's not allowed any caffeine, rice, grains, corn, soy, or dairy or sugar. She's eating mostly green vegetables and fruit.

This week I'm drinking Hawaii Kona from Buy the Cup. It's a lot more expensive, $35/pound, but it's good to splurge every once in a while.

Roaster: Rockaffe

Quenepa or Guinep

The quenepa is a tree-grown fruit found in a gigantic swath of the tropics: From Florida to Mexico it grows, and across the Caribbean and Central and South America. It is my favourite fruit, by far, because it is a bit like candy. That is why kids adore it, as do virtually all adults who grew up with it, as I did in San Juan, Puerto Rico.Julio Ojeda-Zapata

In the English-speaking Caribbean aka British West Indies where I grew up this fruit is known as guinep; a tasty treat sold at the market. On weekends my mom would return from her shopping trip with a bunch. My brothers and I would eat the bunch as quickly as they were handed to us. The last time I ate guinep was in 1998 in Antigua.