Re: Where have all the tangerines gone?
- From: Sheldon <PENMART01@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Apr 2007 10:07:31 -0700
Kate Connally wrote:
I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
really noticed, but do they have a "season".
I have been looking for some recently and
no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
so if you can find the others all year round why
not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
All produce has a season. Califonia tangerines are a winter fruit,
usually in peak season from late October thru mid January (you will
usually see tangerines displayed at Christmas time). Even snow peas
are seasonal, which is why they're expensive and so often they are in
sad shape. Snow peas are easy to grow, but they don't ship well, also
why they're expensive and usually limp and tasteless. Once you've
grown and eaten your own fresh picked snow peas and see how
extrodinarlly prolific they are you will never buy them again... and
even though snow peas are too delicate to ship well they freeze very
well (low water content) toss still frozen snow peas into your stir
fry and tehy'll still be better than the compost-ready crap in the
stupidmarket.
What you want for your stir fry recipe is dried tangerine peel, not
juice. And if you insist on juice frozen tangerine juice concentrate
is much more suitable Next time tangerines are availble save some
peels and dry them, they will keep a very long time, and can be
powdered for recipe use.
http://www.seasonalchef.com/chef032002.htm
Sheldon
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