"But it's EX-O-TIC", pleads my daughter. She was campaigning for me to buy a pepino melon. There was no price listed but I figured it was probably going to be close to $2 - and it was very small (about the size of a large apple).
We bought it - $1.50.
I was surprised at how thin the peel (or is it called a rind) was - unlike any other kind of melon I've purchased - the knife slid easily through cutting it in half.
There were some seeds and some stringy-ish portions that were easily scooped out. We sliced up the melon and had a taste.
It was very watery and soft like a ripe cantaloupe. Not very sweet at all. It tasted similar to a honeydew melon. The children did not like it - they didn't think it had much flavor at all.
We bought it - $1.50.
I was surprised at how thin the peel (or is it called a rind) was - unlike any other kind of melon I've purchased - the knife slid easily through cutting it in half.
There were some seeds and some stringy-ish portions that were easily scooped out. We sliced up the melon and had a taste.
It was very watery and soft like a ripe cantaloupe. Not very sweet at all. It tasted similar to a honeydew melon. The children did not like it - they didn't think it had much flavor at all.
1 comments:
When they are ripe enough to eat - they will have a relatively mellow flavor - I find them to taste like a combination of pear & banana.
I probably wouldn't have like them as a kid/teenager - but love them as a little treat now.
They are also beautiful to look at while they're ripening in your fruit bowl. :)
I hope you've tried these a few more times since you posted this blog forever ago. I only found it because I was looking for a picture of this melon, and yours looked nice! :)
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