Medlar!

I woke up today thinking of one thing only : Medlar.

It seems that not many people eat this fruit, whereas it grows in many backyards in my neighborhood. I can see the fruit starting to grow, and becoming mature enough to eat...hmmm.

I found it on sale last year at Chinatown in San Francisco only, but I never bought them since I can just pick them from the trees.

Despite the bad publicity this fruit had - in french, it used to be called "dog butt" or "monkey butt"- medlars are full of taste and complexity. You have to wait until it is really ripe to eat it. The skin is hard to eat, but the inside is tender, juciy, sweet...It has an aroma of apples, of apricots, and of so many things at the same time...

MMmm, I'm looking forward to harvest many of them and make something good!