I know pomegranates, persimmons and clementines are not all that strange, but until recently I had not tried them. I’ve never really known what to do with pomegranates so I bought some and cut one open.
Apart from looking gorgeous they make great juice and the seeds taste wonderful.
I need to experiment with pomegranates. I will go through some of my recipe books for inspiration.
Persimmons, or cachi, as they are called in Italy, are just plain delicious. They need to be really ripe and quite soft to taste their best.
Just cut them and eat them with a spoon. At Grom in Florence we tried cachi gelato. I could try that at home.
I wasn’t sure whether clementines would be tart like cumquats or sweet like mandarines. They are just like tiny mandarines and they smell heavenly.
I haven’t seen clementines growing, but cachi and melograni are everywhere in autumn
Pomegranates are left on trees everywhere. I wish I had a tree.
Cachi look amazing on their trees. As they ripen the leaves fall off the trees and the fruit cluster all over the bare tree.
I have no idea why I have waited so long to try these delicious fruits. Any recipe suggestions will be gratefully received.