Frozen pitaya available nationwide
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Comments (41)Studies have shown a great many home refrigerators' temperature are way off. Too warm. I wonder if that's not a large part of it, plus the coating mix. I don't really love chicken but I do roast one about every 6 weeks, primarily for stock, and I don't find that it tastes much different the next day or two. But I also don't like white meat, so that often goes into a chicken curry salad or something. But I have to say that even when I was on Dr. Pat's diet for a while, I broiled the chicken breasts for four days at a time, and they were just about the same on day four as on day 1, even if I got lazy and micro-ed them. My fridge is stuck at 34º, so maybe that helps, and I store in glasslock. I do usually buy Murray's chicken, for whatever that's worth....See MoreThe Great Pumpkin shortage
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Comments (7)We get this food every month. This is not only for people who are poor or 'on relief'. My inlaws get it as it is easier than going to the store weekly for them. They get 1 or 2 regular boxes a month and that holds them pretty well. They live in NJ and this way if there is a storm and they can't get out, they have food in the house. There are a few things that we don't eat,( like the dried black beans) but they get donated to the food bank locally. They have a chicken fajita meat that I couldn't figure out how to prepare. Let me tell you, it makes the best chicken salad ever. Seasoned just right. The fruit and vegetable box is a real bargain for the price they charge. You get a nice selection of fruits. I purchase 2 regular boxes and a fruit and vegetable box nd a meat special every month. this really helps spread out our food dollars. I can plan our months meals around this order of food and know exactly what I have on hand. The substitutions we have gotten were never 'bad'. For example, this month they substituted cereal for the peanut butter you were supposed to get. Once we got spinich instead of green beans. All in all to feed our family of three, this really is helpful. My son jokes that we have steak an alful lot now....See More
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9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoDonna, if you get the fresh off the plant like I do, they have quite a bit of flavor, which is very distinctive and wonderful. It's a very refreshing flavor. I don't remember seeing them in stores. My orchid cactus plants (which are related) also make fruit, and that is also edible, but much smaller. When I see them ripe in the yard, I pick them and eat them, but they are barely one bite each. The flavor is similar, but the pitaya is better. I'm hoping that the frozen pitaya pulp will taste more like the fresh.
Here what my last fruit looked like:
While my plant as labeled as "Red", you can clearly see that the pulp is white. The pulp I got in Brazil was magenta, like the skin of my fruit.
Here's what the flowers looked like this year:
The top flower got pollinated, but it appears that the one below did not, even though I attempted pollinating them identically, and I even tried cross pollination.
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