I often like to look at the discount bin at the market where I shop. Today I was able to get a good deal on a couple dozen kiwi fruit that were just a bit past their prime. They’re not moldy or anything but they are getting pretty mushy so I need to do something with them quickly.
My first instinct was to peel, slice, toss with just a bit of sugar and serve over shortcake with a bit of whipped cream and a splash of half and half. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that but if you’ve got better ideas then please share.
Do you have a favorite fruit salad recipe?
Worst case scenario, I could always make them into jam and can them.
Can I just peel, slice and freeze them (with or without added sugar?) for later use?
Just a minor thing: The fruit is known as a “Kiwifruit”, not a Kiwi. A Kiwi is either a small, flightless bird or someone/something from New Zealand- so asking for “Kiwi recipes” is asking for traditional NZ recipes like Pavlova, Rice Bubble Square, Onion Dip, Rocky Road, etc.
As for things you can do with Kiwifruit: Just scoop it out and eat it, use it as an icecream topping (or on pavlova), slice them and put them on Weetbix (or your cereal of choice), or yeah, make them into jam.
It’s possible to squeeze/pulp them and make them into Kiwifruit juice, but you need to add a lot of sugar to make it drinkable, IME.
So in your type of English, old words never take on new meanings? New words are never coined and come into general usage, enabling communication among actual human beings? In your English there is some authority that decrees, and everyone defers to, as to what the building blocks of communication(aka “words”) are, and how they must be used?
I always thought that sounded like a woman’s underarm deodorant/body spray or a trendy sparkling mineral water, myself… so it’s probably for the best that it didn’t, language differences aside.
We may have to stop hassling the Yanks over this one Martini Enfield. When Merriam-Webster offers all 3 (bird, NZer, kiwifruit) as meanings for “Kiwi” the battle may be lost on that continent.
Alpha Twit, one of the odder uses for kiwifruit is as a meat marinade / tenderiser, but I do recall you can’t marinate for too long… or the meat dissolves. :eek:
splutter Oh, yes, that’s nice. Just appropriate something else… racehorses, bands, actors, desserts… NZ emigration: raising the culinary and IQ levels of both countries for decades!
(For the humour impaired, no, not serious… the IQ quip was made by Muldoon, NZ Prime Minister in the mid-70s, early-80… the man was a jerk but had a good turn of phrase… although in this case he may have stolen it from NZ journalist Tom Scott… who oddly enough he generally despised. It’s a funny old world. But Pavlova is still Kiwi).
Well, given how SDMB members usually seem to fall over themselves to demonstrate how tolerate, open-minded, and politically correct they are, it does somewhat surprise me that someone hasn’t said something akin to “You’re right, the correct name for the fruit is Kiwifruit. Thank you for educating us, I shall no longer use the word “Kiwi” to describe the fruit.”
I’m not going to change the thread title, since, despite Martini Enfield’s preferences, “Kiwi” does not mean only a flightless bird or a person from New Zealand.
If you want to continue to discuss that point, ME, please start a new thread. This thread is for recipes for a small fuzzy fruit.
We also say Kiwi tree, like we say apple tree, but we say apple if we talk about the fruit. We might say different if there was a fruit called American. At least you don’t have to clarify Indian from India all the time.
In America it’s known as just a kiwi. We know that when people are asking for “kiwi recipes” they didn’t just bag some giant flightless bird they’re looking to cook up.
I don’t think making the “kiwi is a bird!” distinction is going to make everyone in the United States automatically switch from kiwi to kiwifruit, sorry to burst your bubble.
I didn’t mean to cause such a linguistic fuss over common vernacular distinctions between cultures.
The small, fuzzy, green fruits are gone. Most were mixed with some vanilla yogurt and eaten. Some were mixed with a bit of sugar, cooked briefly to soften them and spread on a cheesecake.
Many thanks to those who helped with my original query.
Out of curiousity, do you get the golden ones up in the US? They’re a recent cultivar; I’m not sure if they have proper name, around here they’re just sold as Gold Kiwifruit. They are less fuzzy, the flesh is a golden yellow rather than green, and they’re a bit sweeter than the more traditional variety.
