Archive for December 7th, 2009
Oddeaties: Pluots
As I stated last night, I’ll be rolling out the Oddeaties posts that ended up being nuked when I took that blog down, just to preserve them somewhere. I hate throwing out “finished” products. This first one was written by my girlfriend, who now writes for the Empowered Fire World of Warcraft blog. If you’re not into food, feel free to skip over this post. Really. I won’t be offended. I promise.
For my first entry on Oddeaties, I thought that maybe I’d start off with something that is only naturally odd, as opposed to jumping into the weird foods niche with my mouth open.
My first choice for a blog entry came to me in a rather mundane and surprising way. I was browsing the local supermarket circular and spied a rather unusual fruit – pluots. Maybe I’m just uncultured, but it was a SIGN! Nay, an omen, that I must use it as my first entry.
Pluots are quite interesting and maybe not be as unfamiliar as you think though. According to Wikipedia:
It is a complex cross hybrid of plum and apricot, exhibiting more plum-like traits. The pluot, like the aprium, is derived from plums, apricots and or hybrids called the plumcot.
While some of the varities look more like their plum forebears, others have a disinctly spotty or mottled look, earning them the name “dinosaur eggs.”
Upon picking up the variety that I had, I could easily see where the plum came in. The skin was dark purple with black. Cutting it open, however, revealed a very deep rich red flesh. The fruit was not too firm or mushy and very juicy and pulpy. I spilled some of the juice in the counter while cutting it and it was a vivid blood color. The taste was very reminiscent of a plum but more mellow and sweet. Nothing about it was tart or even overpowering. This could easily go well with some pears or herbed cheese for a nice afternoon snack.
If you want to eat a pluot yourself, make sure you look for it in your local store during the summer months – most varieties run only between May and August. Hopefully there will be other fruit hybrids coming up for me to sink my teeth into.
A few words of warning
Tonight I finally shelved Oddeaties, the ‘odd foods’ blog that I started to do with my girlfriend and (much more rarely) my little sister. Said girlfriend didn’t have much interest in it and I had little drive to do it solo, so the only purpose it served was spambot bait. I didn’t feel like dealing with that on a blog that was never going to be updated again, so I just trashed the whole thing.
However, I preserved all of the posts because I really didn’t want that content to be simply gone. The site only had 5-6 posts, so I think I’m just going to roll them out slowly here, on this blog. They’ll be clearly marked, so you can skip them if you want and they won’t be around for long since there’s so few of them. I just want them to exist somewhere and this is more or less my catch-all blog, so why not?
I’ll probably roll one out tomorrow, and then who knows with the rest of them.