Kumquating
Here are eight steps to successfully eating a
Kumquat, specially for my lovely blog readers. =)
We saw these in Whole Foods today and had to buy two boxes. These are my first kumquats, but Tapi has had them before, and thereupon came highly recommended!
Kumquats, called the "little gems of the citrus family". are really sweet grape-size oranges that you can pop into your mouth, skin included. They are interesting little fruits, delicious but each different from another. There were some that tasted exactly like oranges with a sweet fleshy pulp and a tart skin, and then some that tasted like oranges in reverse, with a sweet skin and a slightly tart pulp. Either way, the combination of sweet and tart together is quite something... succulent comes to mind, but unconventional and offbeat is what it really is.
I had some kumquats with figs, and
feel like I have accidentally hit upon a
heavenly combination. They really go well with
each other. From what I learnt on the net,
Kumquats and Figs are doublets that pair off and
turn into rich sauces and jams. I even found a
painting of them together. Now call that a
bittersweet ending if you like, in this case, a
bittersweet ending seems quite potent.
Speaking of bittersweet and ending, Kumquats court a lot of citrus fruits ad put new life in the form of
Limequats, (a cross between a lime and a kumquat)
Orangequats, (a cross between an orange and a kumquat)
and Calamondins, (a cross between a Tangerine and a kumquat)
There are also Loquats, who are not offsprings, but a distant relatives of the Kumquats, who share the same last name, which is the chinese word for orange.
We saw these in Whole Foods today and had to buy two boxes. These are my first kumquats, but Tapi has had them before, and thereupon came highly recommended!
Kumquats, called the "little gems of the citrus family". are really sweet grape-size oranges that you can pop into your mouth, skin included. They are interesting little fruits, delicious but each different from another. There were some that tasted exactly like oranges with a sweet fleshy pulp and a tart skin, and then some that tasted like oranges in reverse, with a sweet skin and a slightly tart pulp. Either way, the combination of sweet and tart together is quite something... succulent comes to mind, but unconventional and offbeat is what it really is.
I had some kumquats with figs, and
feel like I have accidentally hit upon a
heavenly combination. They really go well with
each other. From what I learnt on the net,
Kumquats and Figs are doublets that pair off and
turn into rich sauces and jams. I even found a
painting of them together. Now call that a
bittersweet ending if you like, in this case, a
bittersweet ending seems quite potent.
Speaking of bittersweet and ending, Kumquats court a lot of citrus fruits ad put new life in the form of
Limequats, (a cross between a lime and a kumquat)
Orangequats, (a cross between an orange and a kumquat)
and Calamondins, (a cross between a Tangerine and a kumquat)
There are also Loquats, who are not offsprings, but a distant relatives of the Kumquats, who share the same last name, which is the chinese word for orange.
