Fondant Flowers

Fondant has more than one meaning. Most people are familiar with a kind of icing called fondant. You can neatly coat a cake with fondant by rolling a sheet and covering a cake.

You can dye and flavor the fondant and mold it into any shape imaginable. Fondant is like sugar clay.

Fondant is also a French Dessert.

It’s usually a small warm chocolate cake with a molten center.

I recently went to a very nice new restaurant and saw chocolate fondant on the menu so I ordered it.

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They gave me chocolate but it wasn’t warm and was cold. The dessert also didn’t have a melting center. It was just a forking lump of chocolate sugar paste. It was forking chocolate fondant frosting.

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Yuzu Fruit

According to www.fruitsinfo.com The Yuzu is a hybrid of the mandarin and the papeda (a bitter primitive citrus). The aromatic Yuzu is considered to be the most important fruit in Asia.

The Yuzu is believed to contain many health benefits.

Lots of vitamin C

Great for your skin

Burns fat

Vitamin P for Blood flow

The Yuzu I tried that is pictured above was sour but not an unpleasant sour like a white grapefruit. More like an orange zest kind of sour. I thought the juice was good over fish.

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Red Chinese Noodle Beans

I’ve never seen or heard of these type of beans before and purchased them at a farmer’s market recently. I washed them really well and trimmed off the ends and was a little forking afraid of the beans because they felt very tough and I didn’t think I’d be able to make them edible.

So I gently boiled them in vegetable broth until the beans were fork tender. (didn’t time it but it seemed like over five minutes. I drained the beans and noticed they lost most of the red color.  (Not sure but baking soda might have saved some of the color and might have tenderized the beans during the cooking process) Then I threw them back into the pot and hit them with a dap of butter tossed the beans around a little and added fresh ground sea salt and some fresh ground black pepper.

The beans had a very different taste than other green beans I’ve had before.

They were almost nutty and I liked the texture and taste of them.

I also think they’d pair really well with noodles.

After cooking Red Chinese Noodle Beans

Red Chinese Noodle Beans are Worth a Fork! Give them a try when you see them.

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Finger Limes are a small citrus fruit.

You cut them in half.

Then you squeeze the pulp out.

They are like a combination of caviar and Pop Rocks in your mouth that are like lime flavored.

They are just awesome.

I think I’m the only one that tried them on aged sharp cheddar cheese. It’s just a magical combination.

I also made a salad with some Finger Limes.

Zucchini Noodle, Cheddar and Finger Lime Salad

Wow it was good.

Topped a fish dinner with the rest of the finger limes.

You can give me the “finger” any time if it’s a Finger Lime.

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Pink Lemons

Pink Lemons have stripes on their skin but turn pinkish and are less striped when they are most ripe.

The pink lemon is the most aromatic of the lemons and is the most lemony of the lemons.

This is the lemon that you want to use to make pink lemonade with.

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Sea beans are succulents that flower and grow on beaches in salty watery areas.

Sea beans are edible raw or cooked and have a high salt content so adding salt isn’t necessary in food preparation.

Sea beans are native to North America, Europe, South Africa and South Asia.

Often when purchasing they need to be brought back to life and benefit from a half day of soaking in ice water.

These sea beans differ than other sea beans  I had before. These are slightly fibrous and have a slight seafood taste to them. They would make a great vegetarian meal paired with Lobster Mushrooms that also share a seafood kind of flavor. Other varieties of sea beans are delicate, tender and milder in flavor.

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Kiwano

The Kiwano is a horned melon and is also called blowfish melon. It is native to sub-saharan Africa but is also grown in California, Mississippi, Chili, Australia and New Zealand. The fruit has green jelly like flesh with seeds that may be undeveloped or maybe hard. Some people cut the fruit threw the middle and suck out the insides.  You can also cut it long ways and use a spoon as pictured.

It taste like a mixture of cucumbers, kiwi, bananas and citrus all mixed together. The peal is also edible but some people dry the peel with paper towels and use the dried peal as a decorative object.

I read that adding sugar brings out the flavors so I added some. It’s light and refreshing. The sugar really intensifies the flavors.

It scraps out almost like a citrus. It doesn’t seem melon like at all to me. The skin smells just like kumquat.

This is an unpopular but tasty fruit because it is very expensive for it’s size. Depending on where you shop this 6 inch fruit sells for $3.99 up each.

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