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Wj Carroll wrote:Oh, and passion fruit!
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Steve Thorn wrote:
Wj Carroll wrote:Oh, and passion fruit!
I found a good wild patch last year and look forward to hopefully trying some this year!
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It is necessary, therefore it is possible.
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Amy Francis wrote:Mulberries! They have a deep fruity juiciness....so much so that even gently picking them can easily burst these delicate berries i.e. can be a messy business!
I also love elderberries when made into a cordial i.e. not raw. Elderberry wine is my fav wine - a lovely way to get the antioxidants! 🤪
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Mandrake...takes on and holds the influence
of the devil more than other herbs because of its similarity
to a human. Whence, also, a person’s desires, whether good
or evil, are stirred up through it...
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Wj Carroll wrote:BTW, common prickly pear cactus is kind of like bland kiwi... some improved varieties have more flavor. But, If you torch them to remove the cactus spines, then juice them to remove the seeds and pulp... maybe add a little pomegranate juice.... amazing wine! Also pretty awesome in sangria with red wine and citrus. But, also good for just plain eating with some salt or hard cheese. You can also add sugar and lemon, freeze and make a granita.
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Beth Wilder wrote:
Wj Carroll wrote:BTW, common prickly pear cactus is kind of like bland kiwi... some improved varieties have more flavor. But, If you torch them to remove the cactus spines, then juice them to remove the seeds and pulp... maybe add a little pomegranate juice.... amazing wine! Also pretty awesome in sangria with red wine and citrus. But, also good for just plain eating with some salt or hard cheese. You can also add sugar and lemon, freeze and make a granita.
We've found incredible variety in the flavors of different prickly pear fruit in our area. One small spherical red-fruited variety tastes very much like a cross between cherries and strawberries! Another large pear-shaped purple variety is more bland, almost a little savory/salty, but cut in half and put in water with a piece of piloncillo sugar and maybe a cinnamon stick and a couple of dried chilis ferments to an incredible "soda" (very low alcohol content) called colonche that relies on wild yeasts. How do you make wine out of them, Wj Carroll? Do you pitch in wine yeast or rely on wild yeasts? The spineless kind seem to have the least flavor but are still refreshing, and anyway we grow those largely for the pads/nopales.
We've foraged wild grapes (Vitis arizonica) near us, but the large volume of seeds in each small berry have something in them that numbs my tongue. Does anyone know what this could be? I don't like them and haven't figured out how to use them. I like juniper berries (especially in combination with spruce tips in a syrup for flavoring beverages). On the list to try to find are raspberries and blackberries in the mountains, elderberries closer to us, and managing to get any ripe mulberries before the birds. If nuts count, I'm focused on collecting Arizona black walnuts when they're green this summer to make nocino again as well as later in the year to eat.
Thanks for the great thread, Steve!
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