Guavas!!!

[linaewen]

I have to admit that living in small town Wisconsin sometimes has its disadvantages.  Not very many disadvantages, but a few here and there.  One of them is that you can't find a guava for love nor money.  I developed a taste for this fruit over in Pakistan, but haven't been able to find them now that we are back here.  So I've been without guavas for 6 years...

... but no more!  Now that we live in Chicago, I can get things like that!  Last week, I was walking through my favorite international grocery store, and I smelled them -- guavas!  They have a very distinctive smell.  Sure enough, there they were.  They cost a fortune per pound, but I paid it because I wanted a treat.  :-D

They were just the thing, too!  Sliced round with salt, black salt and pepper, yum!

 

So how many here have eaten guavas, and how many of those like them?  According to the rest of my family, they are foul and a nuisance, because the seeds are as hard as little rocks and have to be swallowed whole.  Fine, I say to them, that leaves more for me!  ;-)

In other non-guava news, we are up in Wisconsin for the holiday weekend.  The weather is great!  Hopefully, it will stay that way, too.  The fireworks are set for this evening -- not at the usual location along the river, alas!  They've been flooded out again, same as last year.  Still, it should be nice.  We'll probably meet up with the inlaws for a picnic and then hang out waiting for dusk.

ETA:

One advantage of living in small town Wisconsin is that we have a yard where raspberries grow.  We got up from Chicago this morning and made a beeline for the raspberry bushes, and ate a couple of handfuls before going in the house.  :-D  Yum!

Raspberries and guavas, two of the best fruits ever!

ETA the 2nd:

If you don't know what black salt is, read about it here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_salt
 

Comments

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

i like them as jelly.
have a happy 4th my friend. We are going to The Enchanted Forest amusment park for children both big and small and then home for food and fireworks by Gandalf.
Sunday is a special Service for the Departed of which I am holding the Service. Remembering all the souls that ever came into being and praying for their eternal glory with our Father.

Love, Peace, and Hope
your
Tom

[agape4rivendell.livejournal.com]

I do love to try new fruits - but it can be daunting. Never sure what's the fruit and what's the peel or the seed or whatever! Next time we chat, you'll have to tell me how to 'eat' them.

[(Anonymous)]

The family I stayed with my first 2 weeks in Taiwan had a Guava tree. Before they let me and my fellow Kansas teacher try one, they cut it in wedges and removed the seeds, saying they didn't want us to break our teeth our first week in the country. Must admit they were an acquired taste. I like them well enough now, but prefer them as juice.

Now if I could only find mist-apples. For those, I would go back to Taiwan in an instant.

[halavana.livejournal.com]

the above was written by me. :^\

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

Not too fond of guavas (yet), but your raspberry adventure reminds me of the walks I used to take in the woods in British Columbia, how the salmon berries would sparkle pinky red like jewels in the rays of sunlight coming through the ancient trees. They tasted so good too!