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Strange But Good Fruit

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How can you go wrong with fruit?

 

Unless it’s old and mealy…

I’ve been all about fruit this week.  Mom and I went to the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market last weekend.  This epic food market just keeps going – we spent nearly 4 hours there!  It was filled with foods I’ve never even imagined before.

Like egg fruit (also known as canistel):

Egg Fruit

 

This delicious fruit has the consistency of a hard-boiled egg yolk… sounds strange but I SWEAR it’s fantastic.  It’s taste is sweet with a vanilla-like.

The inside reminds me of an avocado with its large seed:

Source: http://informedfarmers.com

Source: informedfarmers.com

 

After some reasearch I learned that you can use it wherever you’d use a winter squash or pumpkin, and that it makes a tasty milkshake (no word on whether it brings all the boys to the yard).

Naturally, I created a protein-rich midnight snack.  This was made much like my Blueberry Cheesecake Fluff.  If you can’t find egg fruit, this would also be good with pumpkin or butternut squash.  This is one thick, creamy vanilla pudding.

 

Egg Fruit Cheesecake Fluff

Egg Fruit Cheesecake Pudding

  • 1/2 C egg fruit
  • 1/2 C no salt cottage cheese
  • 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp almond extract
  • 1/4 tsp butter extract
  • 1/4 C unsweetened almond milk

 

Put ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth.

Top with your favorites – I made a coconut fluff from equal parts coconut flour mixed with almond milk and sprinkled cacao nibs on top.

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No access to egg fruit?  I have another fruity creation!

For lunch this week I took my no salt turkey deli meat and made a fruity salad with it.  Mixing it up with Greek yogurt added a terrific tangy creaminess.  This was strangely complimented by a “sweeter” combo of blueberries, cardamom, and nutmeg.

Nuts and Berries Turkey Salad

Nuts and Berries Turkey Salad

  • 3 oz no-salt deli turkey, shredded
  • 2 T Greek yogurt
  • 1 T coconut vinegar (any white vinegar would work here)
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp cardamom
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • 1/8 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/2 C berries
  • Walnuts

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In short, I want to see what concoctions have earned you weird looks from co-workers, family and friends!  Post your Strange But Good creations, grab the logo below for your blog, and link up here.

 

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I'm excited for more strangeness this weekend because one of my favorite weird-o foodies, Heather, is in town!!!

What's the strangest produce you've ever tried?

Have you eaten anything strange this week?  Do share!

 

Comments

  1. To the blog world this is probably normal but to others, this is going to sound strange: a bowl of milk, applesauce & nuts- so strange yet SO good :)!

  2. I would love to have a market like that available. I think I’m pretty lucky with the market I do have, but it’s basic altough it’s a great savings over regular supermarkets. Just that you get so much because it’s all bagged. That pudding sounds wonderful, Laura. I’ll have to keep my eye out for egg fruit if I’m ever in a bigger farmers market. Have a great day!

  3. I guessed the theme! [Totally by accident…] I’m glad my creation fits into the Strange But Good category of the week, although I’d love to get my hands on that egg fruit. [It’s a vegan-approved type of egg, right? ;)] Now you’ve got me thinking about how to use the endless winter squash on my counter…and again, with that tofu in the fridge. Maybe the more I keep saying it, the more likely I will make it happen. Like The Little Engine That Could: I think I can, I think I can…

    Obviously I haven’t had my coffee this morning.

  4. Laura,
    That egg fruit looks really cool. I’d love to eat chicken salad out of boats of it, but if you’re supposed to cook it like a squash, then waffles it is for me.

    Since we’re talking strange fruit, I linked up my favorite fruit on a pizza–Ham and Banana pizza. If I have bananas at the perfect amount of ripeness (just barely ripe, not starting into perfect-for-banana-bread-ness) this pizza rocks.

    Have a good weekend!

    • It’s really good raw too – I think chicken salad is a fantastic idea! I may try this tomorrow, in fact…

      Banana?! Sounds strange but good to me! I love how they caramelize.

  5. Egg fruit! I have never even heard of that! I would definitely try it though :). Also, your nuts and berries turkey salad sounds GREAT. I love when foods have cool textures like that… if that makes sense LOL!

  7. Oh wow Ive never seen an egg fruit before! That looks really interesting; I’ll have to do a hunt for one.
    I’m always eating “strange” stuff; definitely gonna have to post up a link at some point , when I have photos – maybe next Friday 😀

    • Yay!!!! Those muffis are so genius. I’m going to make them as soon as I can stay in town long enough. 🙂

  12. I’m telling you egg fruits are going to become the it thing in the blogging world now. I really want to try it. Let me know if you guys plan to go there this weekend.

  17. WHAT?! This is so cool! When I was younger I hatehatehated the yolk part of hard boiled eggs because it was so chalky. But I definitely want to try this. You totally had me at the word milkshake.

  19. Never seen egg fruit… I’ve had star fruit and thought that was the weirdest, I don’t see it in the store very often. The weirdest thing I’ve had this week was a cherry chia kombucha… it had the seeds just floating around in it! I had to show my boss because I bought it at lunch and it said it had trace amounts of alcohol… lol. I am happy because I like the taste and the texture of all the seeds doesn’t bother me so I will definitely get this again.

    • I love star fruit! Those chia kombuchas are defintiely strange… I didn’t mind it, but it was hard to drink. Like I didn’t know if I should chew or swallow… does that even make sense?

  20. Just remembered this… Next time you’re at the Dekalb farmer’s market, pick up a mamey. It was kind of thick and creamy like how you describe the eggfruit, but it had a kind of pumpkin pie with a hint of cherry flavor. I used it to make a smoothie and it was to die for. I forget what part of the year I saw them, so they may not be in season right now.

  22. I need to find one of these, you have me SO intrigued. I wonder if my favorite Asian market has them, they always have the unique produce I can’t find anywhere else…

  23. Oh, egg fruit! Completely new to me, but I’d be up for trying one if it ever crossed my path! I also like how they are heart shaped when you cut them open. 🙂

    My food has been so boring lately. A couple weeks ago I was craving deli turkey, but I kind of “gave it up” so to speak, since it’s usually loaded with nitrates and sodium. I found the no salt added Boar’s Head Turkey, and it’s pricey, but it did the trick. It wasn’t as tasty though- they really know how to trick your tastebuds with those additives! Lately I’ve been making chicken salad concoctions though, with baked chicken breasts, and added whatever I have on hand, veggies, hummus, greek yogurt, etc. It does the trick for my sandwich cravings. Probably the only thing out of my ordinary I’ve been making lately. :/

    Happy Friday!

    • It’s funny – I worried the no salt turkey would taste funny, but I’m so used to low sodium now that it tasted completely normal.

  26. I had no idea such a fruit existed! Which now means it’s a goal to try one. Plus I’m a sucker for hard-boiled egg yolks, used to pull off and toss the white and just eat the center when I was kid. Okay, who am I kidding? I’d still do that, if it wasn’t for that pesky protein business…

  29. I have never seen or heard of egg fruit but now I WANT one for sure. Looks so good.

    Your turkey salad sounds good too… with almond milk for me instead of Greek Yogurt… love it.

  31. Definitely strange but sounds really good! Never seen that egg fruit before but it really sounds good! You come up with some very very very “interesting” food combos! 😉

  32. That fruit sounds SO good! I want to find it now. I kind of love the name. And I think that turkey dish sounds tasty too. Have you ever tried blueberries or blueberry jam stuffed in turkey burgers? (you can add goat cheese too), oh my gosh it’s amazing!!

  33. INTERESTING… VERYYYYY Interesting!!! I highly DOUBT any of the stores near me would have this egg wannabe, it’s even hard to find SPAGHETTI squash at any of these stores!!! That being said, I do love butternut squash so I like that I can easily supplement it in this recipe! 🙂 Happy Friday!

    • Butternut squash would be perfect here. But I’m in shock you can’t find spaghetti squash! I’d write my congrassman or something… 😉

  34. I feel like a dunce, but I was trying to link up and I accidentally entered the wrong link the first time! It’s #13…I ended up entering the right link as #14, but do you think you could delete the faulty link for me? 🙂 Thanks!!

  35. Ack!! The reason I only ever order poached eggs is because I can’t stand the texture (and kinda flavour) of cooked egg yolk. No egg fruit for me then!

  37. When I first started juicing, I would hunt like mad for new fruits to test. I haven’t heard of this egg one, but now I know if I do see it, it’s something worth trying!

  38. Woa! That fruit looks amazing! The craziest thing I’ve eaten recently is star fruit, sounds lame in comparison to egg fruit 🙁

  40. I bet your milkshake brings the boys to the yard. The girls for that matter too.
    I’d love to have someone willing to spend 4 hours at a farmers market with me. I went to one the other day here in cold snowy Cleveland, and there was no produce. Farmers market fail!

  45. Oh my… if your resto reviews aren’t enough, seeing this Farmer’s Market makes me want to go to Atlanta all the more! And of course, the most important point: to meet you in person. 🙂

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