real excitement at the grocery today. a wonderful tart sweet fruit we can never ever find appeared today. barely edible-looking cape gooseberries are a wonderful treat. and they are nothing like regular gooseberries from the farmer's market in the summer. a completely different animal (berry). whenever the gods of grocery inventory are able to provide them, we will partake. usually we see them in london. we clearly have a serious exotic fruit habit in this household. in defense i can say only that there are far worse vices. seriously. cape gooseberries look like a cross between a tomatillo and and an orange cherry tomato. but they taste like a cross between a passion fruit and a guava and a tomatillo. or something like that. high in vitamins a and c, iron and phosphorous. great in fruit salad. or on their own. store in the fridge. okay, all this talk about cape gooseberries... i am going to go and eat a few right now. so pleasingly tart.
Hi Gretchen, you got the fruit better than me,loved the pics on ur blog, especially the botanical garden one's, ...and do try the so very easy jam...u will LOVE it!
ReplyDeletejust love browsing around your blog. came via simple lovely. I will be back soon. cheers!
ReplyDeleteI see these only rarely in stores here, but when I do it's a great score for me. Years ago I grew husk tomatoes in my garden; saved the seeds from year to year, but there were several years when I couldn't have a plot and never have found seeds since. They weren't so sweet as cape gooseberries, but were great fun to peel and eat.
ReplyDeleteI have plants similar to these growing in my yard as Chinese Lanterns? Do you think mine are edible?
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