The problem with summer (other than sweating it out) is the sudden spike in my $$$pending! I've splurged so much on fruits! $$$pending UP by 40%!!! First, there are
strawberries, then came the olallieberries. There is also plenty of melons around (honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelons - just the common varieties, PLUS other special "melon-breeds", the names I have forgotten). Then, all the peaches and nectarines (white- and yellow- variety, with elegant branding eg. Arctic Sweet, Summer Sweet, Pink Lady, White Lady etc etc). I've BOUGHT and eaten most of them, only leaving out the plums and pluots which have not tempted me yet. Oh, I forgot, there are also cherries that I have been popping into my mouth like crazy - the Bing cherries (Red) and the Rainier (White) cherries. Do you know that the Rainier cherry (creamy-yellow flesh) is a cross between the Bing cherry and the Van cherry, which both have dark red flesh? If you are interested in the cherry story, pick it up here. It reminded me of biology class..."....Both dark cherries carried a recessive gene of a white cherry, meaning a Bing and a Van could produce a Rainier in much the way two brown-eyed parents can procreate a blue-eyed child..."
I bought $10 worth of rainier cherries...and solely exclusively for...just me...:D
Now you know why I get a sugar rush, and posted like a crazy woman. She even suspected I have turned full time bloggerista, ...of course NOT!! (Jaden, I don't have "42 & counting more" posts sitting in my drafts folder)!! In fact, I'm blogging less this summer. Heat is one reason. Heat causes one to be lethargic, then turn one lazy. Never write, never cook, only eat cherries. And when I eat that WHOLE LOT of cherries, the sugar has to go somewhere. A basic equation of chemical engineering taught me (which happens to be the only thing I remember now, the rest...all forgotten!!!) --> "Input + Generation = Output + Accumulation". Thus, all of a sudden, I posted like mad (hey, told you the sugar has to go somewhere other than there ;p )
Some sugar converted to energy to make these too...a fake "Fruit" cake , and these Uber-cute, mini-fruit medley cups. Well, the sugar in me has to channel here. The fruits have to channel there too, right?
Enjoy your fruits.
(P/S. Singaporeans and Malaysians friends/bloggers out there, enjoy those durians too! Miss the "king", man!)
Tag: fruits, cherries
Tigerfishy,
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Van cherries before. But did you know Bing cherries were created by a Chinese in Oregon? :)
aiyohhhh... can eat better eat more. When you come back to Singapore, cannot find so beautiful ones and sum more so expensive! Last week I bought a small packet (130g) of USA Rainier cherries, it cost S$10.85! Wah! *peng*
ReplyDeleteYou are very lucky to have so many different choice of berries to pick and eat! The weather in England is really bad. It's summer time now but it has been having thick black cloud with heavy rain for the whole morning!!! Just feel like autumn instead. Strewsberry can't grow well at all this year. Although how supermarket can get hold of them, I know not, I will not buy them at all!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, enjoy them! :)
Think of all the Vitamin C you are getting this summer! ;)
ReplyDeleteWe went crazy buying stonefruit at the farmer's market at the beginning of summer. Then we realized how much money we were spending on fruit alone. So now we've scaled back.
ReplyDeleteI looove rainier cherries, I think I'll go to the farmer's market and pick some up today. :D
ReplyDeletewandering choppy, I saw Van once but I agree it's not common to see them around.
ReplyDeleteI know Bing cherries were created in oregon , but I did not know it was a chinese creation :D
ECL, so expensive because of the shipping (that requires some refrigeration, I think) for the cherries.
Heard my mum say it's expensive. I paid $10USD for about 4lbs...wooo...I think here much cheaper ;p
windy, sounds like a gloomy summer over there....where is the sun?
east meets west, I wish I can have these all year round....
nate 2.0, I need to scale back too, going broke :(
amy, a lot of the cherries now in California are from Washingston state....you are lucky :)
Me too!! Going a little berry crazy this summer. My little girl loves going to the u-pick farms : )
ReplyDeleteRainier cherries are my favorite!! Somehow they are always sweeter than the other cherries.
Eat as much as you can of those cherries over there. I love cherries, berries, nectarines, peaches, etc It costs much much more over here. You will be glad to know that the price of durians have come down a bit this year. Must be a bumper harvest!
ReplyDeleteI know, I know... everybody here in England are wondering about it - please sun, just come out! :(
ReplyDeleteWe had red cheeries sold here, are those same same as Bing cherries? i'm sure you miss durian. I had my fill few days ago. Red meat, yellow meat, sweet n bitter, wah wah wah.
ReplyDeleteblur mommy, sigh...I spent so much on berries, cherries....
ReplyDeleteI like going to u-pick farms too, though I'm not a little girl anymore :D
SAHM, cheap durians no use leh...cannot eat :(
windy, I like the sun (for the light) not for the heat :P
fleck, tempt me....:( ..here only got yellow flesh ones...and not bitter ones...
I actually like those slightly-bitter durians :)
Bing cherries1 sounds like Chandler Bing from Friends - hehe.
ReplyDeleteI miss durians as well!!
I like berries.
ReplyDeletewokandspoon, hahhaahah! Cherry from a TV show :P
ReplyDeleteoceanskies79, I like berries but they are not cheap. :O