During orange season, which runs roughly November to March or April, we go to the grove and buy whatever varieties they have (it changes all the time).
You start with this:
Cut them:
Look at this one, so pretty in the middle:
Next, squeeze them, which brings us to this:
And voila, delicious juice!
So good, you won't believe it's good for you.
YUM! That looks so fresh and wonderful!
ReplyDeleteIt does make me wonder why store-bought orange juice looks NOTHING like that, though. They are almost different animals entirely!
I was I think nine, and the fourth of six kids, when our family did a trip with our camping trailer to Florida during spring break. We stopped at a few orange orchards where it would be all you can drink for ten cents. My taste buds at that age thought OJ was both too sour and bitter and though I was willing to drink a Dixie paper cup's worth at everybody's urging, that was enough, and my family said I was the only one the farmer made any money off of that day.
ReplyDeleteIt was memorable. And I totally outgrew that. I love orange juice and I love that you got to have it straight off the trees, the very best way to do it.
And if you ever come across any Page oranges, mandarin sized, grab them. They're hard to grow and die easily and are sold to home growers now because it's a huge risk for farmers, but nothing tastes like a Page. (One caution, they're a quarter grapefruit in parentage, in case that matters in terms of interactions with meds. They taste nothing like it so you wouldn't know otherwise.)