Page Tangerine (Mandarin)

Keri — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:42:29 +0000

If you pile on the ridiculous, over-the-top, excessive, extraneous, magniloquent use of adjectives when you are excited about something, then this is the fruit for you!

APPEARANCE 4 out of 5 stars

Standard tangerine looks – orange skin, orange flesh, no seeds.

AROMA 4.5 out of 5 stars

Strong, lovely and sweet tangerine.

TEXTURE 5 out of 5 stars

Amazingly soft, running all over my shirt dripping with juice.

TASTE 5 out of 5 stars

Perfectly acidic, slightly flowery, strong, sweet and complicated flavor.

OVERALL 4.63 out of 5 stars

Extremely delicious. What can I say? This, THIS, is a tangerine. This is the kind of fruit that should make the standard orange hide in shame. Don’t get me wrong, I like oranges. But WOW! This is the kind of fruit you secretly make out with. It’s what perfect lips should be. This is sexy fruit.

FRUIT

Mandarin

VARIETY

Page

PEAK

Winter

GROWN

California

PURCHASED

Farmer’s Market

NOTES

So once again the world of citrus vexes me. This particular tangerine was released (whatever that means-as if fruit is released from prison or into the wild or something) as an orange but technically speaking the variety is a tangelo hybrid since it is three-fourths mandarin and one-fourth grapefruit. Can you believe it? A TANGELO HYBRID! I think I’m going to have to start a citrus poser page.

RECIPES

Tangerine Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Spicy Tangerine Beef

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