Harvest!

This week, Tommy helped our landlord harvest bananas from our front yard area. This was apparently quite an arduous process and even involved the fashioning of tools! Now we have a bounty of bananas--more than we can eat. I sliced a bunch of them up and froze them for future use in smoothies.

The picture above shows our recent harvest, including some of the bananas, a pomelo, and some of the weird little citrus fruits that we have in our yard which are not quite kumquats. I am still searching to find their official name. Basically they are small and orange like kumquats, but have a very thin rind and have segments like oranges. They are EXTREMELY sour--kind of like eating sour patch kid candies. We have found that they work well in making a kind of "little orange fruit"-ade when you squeeze a section into water and add splenda. Our landlord tells us that the leaves are also good for use in cooking. The pomelos are very odd. They have enormous rinds and many, many seeds and are some ancient form of grapefruits. They have a greenish pulp inside and are also quite sour. Best eaten sliced into peices and knawed upon like you are living on a desert island.