--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip on avocado pits in a smooothy. Is it really good? > I have never eaten it. I'll have to do a search to see if anyone else > is preparing it somehow. It is so freak'n big it would be nice not to > throw it away. The Vietnamese people here make avocado sweet smoothies > with sweetened condensed milk. > > I also like key limes, but your ability to allow them to totally ripen > on the tree is where the magic happens. I am jealous. I also have > kafir lime plant and use the leaves. The Thai people here use the > zest of the fruit, not the juice for curries, but mine has never > produced fruit so I have to buy them frozen. > > > > --- In [email protected], "vashtirama" <vashtirama@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > "Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard > here > > > in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:" > > > > > > Meyer lemons rule! I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. > > > Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever. If you > > > had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in > > > heaven. I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons. > > > > > > > You are SO RIGHT about the avocado and Kit mango trees! We practically > > fast on them and add the avocado pits to smoothies. > > But about the Meyer lemons, the key limes from our tree beat them out, > > esp. if left on the tree to ripen so much that they fall off. They > > have a complex taste, about 5 tastes in one. > > We tried a Sweet Lemon tree (a Middle Eastern fruit apparently) and > > they really did taste like lemonade! Unfortunately they never > > developed any juiciness no matter what we did. It might be because > > we're in FL not Cal.; we couldn't get juicy blood oranges and > > pomegranates either. > > We also have a kaffir lime tree which we use for the leaves. It has > > never fruited so I don't know what they're like.
I haven't been able to detect the taste of the pit yet. It's supposed to be an excellent source of soluble fiber so the smoothie is more satisfying for longer than the usual fruity smoothie and keeps my blood sugar level even. One pit goes into a 4-smoothie batch (blended by a 3 horsepower K-tec). We throw it in whole because it's too hard to cut. The blender has no trouble with it though, whereas there is always a grit left after it blends blackberry or pomegranate seeds. On the internet I only found 1 mention of ingesting it: it is grated and used medicinally in Mexico. Looks like the whole tree is toxic to many animals but when we had our pet iguanas they lunged at avocado leaves with pure glee. An iguana whisperer suggested once that this is because avocadoes and cinnamon are in the same family. The iguanas also loved leaves from our cinnamon tree. We learned of adding the pit to smoothies at a raw foodist class regarding using smoothies for healing. That lack of any mention on the internet to back this up makes me wonder! Not that the internet is authoritative about anything, but gee, I'm not going to rave about eating avocado pits all day every day and that everybody should do it! You can use the inner pit of the mango too, and in some countries it's ground and used as flour, but it's too much work for me to get it out of its casing, plus so many people have allergies to the tree around here that I'm not eager to eat more parts of the mango. (It's in the same family as poison ivy. Pink peppercorns, and cashews too--another tree that's so toxic, people can die from the fumes of roasting the cashews. Even the cashews sold as 'raw' have been heated to become edible.) Raw foodists make amazing things with the avocado flesh, such as chocolate mousse! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
