In Season at Frieda’s: Dragon Fruit and Fingerling Potatoes
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Frieda’s, a specialty produce company based right next door to me in Los Alamitos, California, recommends this season’s dragon fruit and fingerling potatoes.
Fingerling potatoes I get.
What the heck is a dragon fruit?
A Wikipedia article (“may require cleaning up to meet Wikipedia’s standards”) says that it’s a fruit of a flowering cactus, Hylocereus undata. It looks sort of like the spiked ball at the end of the chain on a mace — sort of a heavily armored cactus apple.
With that pedigree, there is no surprise that the plant is native to the Americas, although now cultivated in Asia.
It can be eaten raw (with the bright red and green skin as a eye-popping server) or made into juice. From others’ reports, the flavor is mild and the texture is sort of a cross between a melon and a kiwi — a good ingredient to support stronger flavors rather than star on its own.






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