SWEET ORANGES

I was re-arranging my e-photo album, when I found this picture.
Taken 2003. The fruit is from the orange tree at our land located in Kintamani.
It is not a serious managed orange plantation, we have it as it is already there.

It is quiet weird........, when first visiting the place after my love one bought it, it was just the harvest time. We tasted the orange from all trees at the first layer terrace. We just left un-eaten the orange which is not taste sweet :-(. Feel sorry right now, it is not good isn't it. What a waste!

Right now, we just collected all fruits. The one that are taken from the tree which marked not sweet, collected separately, and it goes to a blender ------> output : ORANGE JUICE!
The sweet one, we ate it directly, put the left over in the refrigerator. If there are too many left over, it went out to our friends house.

Actually the harvest time itself is really enjoyable. Taking the fruit one by one, smell its freshness while the mountain breeze softly caress our skin. Exchanging jokes, sometimes throwing small undeveloped orange each other.

I'am happy.














This is the view from my land at Kintamani.
Actually I and my love one want to sell it, we want to move to the north part of Bali.
It is not big, only 2.300 m2, but the view is 'undisturbed'.
Nobody can build something in front of the land, as it is located on the slop.
If you are interested please contact me by post a comment.

TAMARILLO JAM

Yesterday, was the first time I tasted tamarillo. I like it, sour and a bit sweet taste.
Cultivated a lot in the mountain area of Bali like Bedugul and Kintamani.
Costs Rp. 7.500 / kg, I got the feeling that it is a bit expensive the price we paid yesterday!
I should check next time when I have a chance going up again.

I bought 2 kgs of tamarillos. Stealing one to taste for the first time, the rests I peeled, took out the seeds and scoped the fruit. Chopped it roughly - I used hand blender. I added 600 grm of sugar + one stick of cinnamon, and started to simmer it.

After nearly 40 minutes, I got a beautiful thick tamarillos jam. It has a very beautiful red color, and taste yummy!

ARBEI

I took this picture on my latest journey up to the mountain, to a yet un-explored area. I was really surprised seeing this arbei (that is what we called the berries here) plant, it brought my memory back to my childhood time.

During my childhood time to my teenage period, it was being a routine for my family to spend our holiday season in the village where my dad originally from. Staying there for nearly a month. Going fishing, cycling and exploring many exotic places - mostly out of crowd.

On my grandma's yard there was arbei bushes carrying lots of fruits. After playing in a hot day we (myself and my cousins) used to take a rest, sitting near the bushes and busy picked up riped berries to cure our thirsty.

My cousin who elder than I am explained that the silkworm eats that kind of berries leaves.

The berries I found last week was not as sweet as the berries on my grandma's yard. But it gave me a pleasant feeling.

MY TROPICAL FRUIT - KEDONDONG

Kedondong (Spondias dulcis) is one of tropical fruits. One in my yard (see on the next picture), I got it from my mother in law. According to her, it comes from Thailand’s proliferation. Local kedondong is much smaller compared to the one from Thailand.

I have to wait for several more months until it ripens. It has slightly sour taste, very crunchy and contents lots of fiber. It can be used as pickles, fruit salad, or jam.

Kedondong has a single seed with many stiff filaments. There is a practical joke here, when somebody got a sore-throat, he/she will be teased, “You have a sore-throat since you didn’t clean your throat with kedondong seed!”

Honestly, I did not really like the fruit......., but I like seeing fruits growing and producing.