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Skriven 2010-04-12 21:10:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Bill Swisher
Ärende: PAPAYAS  00412
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 -=> Quoting Bill Swisher to Jim Weller <=-

 > Are all papayas tasteless or just the ones they ship to you and me?

 BS> No, next time you're in Hawaii try theirs.  World of taste difference
 BS> apart from
 BS> the obvious size difference.  Once upon a time we stayed at a little
 BS> B&B and the
 BS> guy chopped down a banana tree to get us a big huge mess of those
 BS> little 4" ripe
 BS> bananas.  WOW what a taste!  Apparently when a banana tree produces
 BS> fruit it's a
 BS> goner and won't produce again.  So the solution, I was told, is to
 BS> chop it down
 BS> and let it regenerate from the roots to get it to produce again.

Bananas grow from suckers which bud off the sides of the old roots.
These suckers are usually cut out and planted separately in square
holes.  There are many kinds of bananas growing in the tropics which
the unfortunates in temperate areas never get to taste, as they are
not designed for travel hardiness like the Cavendish sold in
supermarkets.  These tropics-only bananas can have flavours of apple,
strange delicate perfumes, and more, and when ripe can be red, brown,
green as well as yellow.  Papaya varieties can have red, yellow or
orange flesh.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Thai Green Pawpaw (Papaya) Salad
 Categories: Asian, Salads, Side dish, Appetizers
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
      1 cl Garlic
      2 T  Peanuts, cooked and crushed
      2 t  Raw sugar
      2    Chillies, bird's eye
    1/2    Tomato, large
      1 c  Shredded green pawpaw
      3 T  Fish sauce
      2 T  Lime juice
 
  In a large mortar, crush together, garlic, peanuts and sugar. Add
  whole chillies to taste, and crush some more. Add remaining
  ingredients and crush until the ingredients are bruised, rather than
  squashed, and thoroughly mixed. Serve at warm room temperature as an
  accompaniment to a main dish, or as an appetiser.
  
      Recorded as observed being made in the Rapid Creek Market, Darwin,
  :       by Glen J, 2000
 
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