I admit, I have some problems with bland tasting fruit, like cantaloupe or papaya and, unless they are served mixed with more assertive tasting fruit in a sallad, I am inclined to…. add salt to them.
Thus my favorite summer desert is a fresh cantaloupe, cubed and lightly marinated in lemon juice (with or without a bit of rum or tequila) and fresh orange mint leaves ( I love orange mint, it is so fragrant, good also with Cuba Libre ) and sprinkled more or less genereously (more if with tequila, less if with rum) with coarse Mediterranean sea salt. Help yourselves, please.
A culinary crime of the century, you say? Naah, just my everyday culinary transgression, perhaps.
September 23, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Can you put orange mint seeds on my wish list please?
September 23, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Found out most mints are hybrids and don’t grow reliably from seeds, so the hybrids are sold as small plants only. Do you know if I can try to mail you some cuttings? If not I’ll take cuttings with me to Puerto Rico and we’ll figure out how to proceed from there.