The Adventure Continues

As you know I believe one of the best ways to try something new is to go to the grocery store. Well I found a new fruit, well new to me! It is the Pluot. Yummo! It is sweet and tender and the outside skin looks like a Leopard (or at least I think it does). According to Fruit Patch:

"With pluots, as with other new varieties flavor is number one. The objective of cross-pollinating fruits is to increase the flavor and eating quality. So you ask “what is a pluot”? Here is a break down of how the pluot was created by Floyd Zaiger. A cross between a plum and an apricot is called a plumcot, and the resulting hybrid is 50% plum and 50% apricot. Cross the plumcot with yet another plum and the result is a pluot: 75% plum, 25% apricot. If you cross a plumcot with an apricot the result is an aprium, which is 75% apricot and 25% plum, also created by Floyd Zaiger. The exterior of a pluot resembles a plum fairly closely; shiny smooth skin, round shape. However the skin isn’t as bitter as that of a true plum. A pluot tends to taste and look more like a plum, while a plumcot favors the apricot. Pluots have gone from obscurity with their first introduction in 1989 to gaining a premium image in the U.S. tree fruit market."

One of the best ways to keep life fun and interesting is to try new things and one of the easiest ways to do that is to go to the produce section of your favorite grocery store. I can't think of a tastier way to explore.

Let the Adventure begin!

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Rachelle