Fruit

OK, sure, I knocked the 30 new fruit thing off my list. Still, I want to share some new fruit I tried. So here is the first one.

I came across a cherimoya - also known as a "custard apple" - at the Kirkland PCC a few days ago. It was bright green and about the shape of an avocado. It was a little spendy at $7.99/lb, and the one I got was almost a pound.

The cashier told me I needed to wait until it was mostly brown and spongy to the touch before I ate it, to make sure it was ripe.

Today I took it, in its scaly-brown goodness, to work.

True to the name, it smelled strongly of apple before I even cut into it. Once I cut it in half, I found a cream-colored fruit filling a leathery skin. The name was doubly fitting; it was creamy but with a taste of apple. Imagine an apple pudding, and you've got it. The only drawback was the fact that it was full of seeds, each hard as a rock and about the size of a lima bean.

It was a delicious fruit, though, and I wish I could afford to eat them often.