Fruit Maven » mandarinquat http://fruitmaven.com Your guide through the wild world of fruit. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:28:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Two-quat-tini http://fruitmaven.com/2010/02/two-quat-tini-2/ http://fruitmaven.com/2010/02/two-quat-tini-2/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:09:30 +0000 Fruit Maven http://fruitmaven.com/?p=1534 If you tend to use phrases like “liquid lunch” or “sandwich in a glass” to justify your binge drinking, then this is the post for you!

Limequat

You might think that here at Chez Fruit Maven (oh yes – I will lamely use the word “chez” if I want to) it’s all about healthy living and eating. Surely I am eating fruit for all my snacks and juicing my breakfast and making fruit parfaits for the occasional, well deserved dessert. Of course I am — every year until about noon on January 1st. Later, at approximately 12:01pm I go back to my lazy, day spa loving self and order a fancy martini from poolside while mocking the girls with the fake tans and melon boobs. (Ok, so this might not be my exact life but believe me it is really, really close.)

What is my point here? I am starting a cocktail column! Every so often, when a particular fruit strikes my fancy, I’ll be posting a recipe of my latest amusement. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. And please, let me know if you try them or if you make up some of your own.  Here we go (yeah, I’m hoping to get better at naming them):

Two-quat-tini
  • 1 limequat
  • 1 mandarinquat
  • 2 teaspoons powdered sugar
  • a pinch of cayenne (use a light touch here or you will seriously mess this up)
  • 2 ounces light rum
  • 2 ounces club soda
  • crushed ice
  1. Slice the limequat and mandarinquat in half or quarters and place in the bottom of a cocktail shaker
  2. Add the powdered sugar and the pinch of cayenne
  3. Muddle! Muddle! Muddle!
  4. Add crushed ice, light rum and club soda
  5. Strain into an appropriate glass (I have no idea what is appropriate)
  6. Garnish with a twist of peel (or stop trying to impress everyone and just drink it)
]]> http://fruitmaven.com/2010/02/two-quat-tini-2/feed/ 4 Mandarinquat http://fruitmaven.com/2010/01/mandarinquat/ http://fruitmaven.com/2010/01/mandarinquat/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:46:19 +0000 Keri http://fruitmaven.com/?p=1393 If you avoid citrus because you hate peeling them and getting that yellow stain under your fingernails that makes you look like you have a fungus, then this is the fruit for you! Mandarinquat
APPEARANCE 4 out of 5 stars

Lovely, oval shaped fruit with a nobby, tipped end. Bright, juicy, orange flesh with lots and lots of seeds.

AROMA 4 out of 5 stars

The skin smells like spicy vanilla; the inside like a perfumy orange.

TEXTURE 3.5 out of 5 stars

You can eat the skin and all–so the skin is firm and a little crunchy maybe, inside is soft and juicy like most citrus.

TASTE 3 out of 5 stars

Skin has a grownup citrus sweetness, flesh and juice is sour tangerine.

OVERALL 3.63 out of 5 stars

I tend to be a fan of the kumquat so I was looking forward to trying the mandarinquat with great anticipation. Unfortunately it was a little bit of a let down. The main novelty is that you can eat the sweet peel. In kumquat size, where you can pop the whole thing in your mouth, this is great. But at a bit larger size, it just doesn’t have the same charm. I guess I just don’t have any great desire to bite into the firm, slightly crunchy peel of a citrus and then get a mouth full of sour juice. I’m not saying this fruit is bad, it’s not. You should definitely seek it out and make cocktails and jam and whatnot. I guess my expectations were just a bit too high.

FRUIT

Mandarinquat

VARIETY

Unknown

PEAK

Winter

ORIGIN

Unknown

GROWN

Grown

GROWN

Rancho Del Sol
Jamul, CA

PROVIDED BY

Specialty Produce
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NOTES

As you might have guessed, the mandarinquat is a cross between the mandarin and the kumquat. It’s the Brangelina of the fruit world. Scandalous.

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