My Favorite Fruit Rambutan

Back in Philippines, my sister has a tree of Rambutan in their backyard. Every year, we would always look forward for the Rambutan tree to bear fruit. When the Rambutan season is coming, we would check the tree everyday if it starts to produce flowers and then we would excitedly wait for the flowers to become little fruits. And when it's ready for harvest I would always volunteer to climb the tree.

When I was young I didn't like Rambutan, not until I was in high school. When it's Rambutan season, I could see a lot of vendors selling it in the streets of Davao City in a cheap price. Each time I buy it, the more I like it and crave for more.

Rambutan is an exotic fruit that is common to southeast asian countries such as Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. A ripe Rambutan has a reddish or yellowish hairy skin. You can either cut,bite or sqeeze with your both hands to open it. It is a bit juicy inside so I don't really like squeezing it. It has a delicious sweet taste that you would always want for more when you taste it.

I miss Rambutan, its been a while since the last time I ate it. Since they don't have it here in Denmark I'll just put it in my "must eat" fruit when we will have a vacation in the Philippines.

Red Currants

I've never heard of Red Currant all my life until I've visited Finland last year. My mother inlaw has a big garden in their house and she has a lot of different berries, cherries, some grapes, apple trees and red/white currant. I was amazed the first time I've seen her garden. We've been staying in my inlaws house for almost 2 months now and we are so lucky coz its summer and the plants in the garden started to bear fruit/berries when we arrived. I've picked forrest strawberries and cherries already atleast for times in her garden. Among all the plants in the garden there is something that really caught my attention, its the Red Currants. I've missed Philippine green mango so much and it makes me sad when I think of it but when I discovered about the red currants, it filled that missing spot in me that craved for green mango. Its not as sour as Philippine green mango and it doesn't look like green mango though but its an ok substitute. All I do when I eat it, is just I imagine that im eating the green mango(lol). Every other day I would pick red currant in the garden and I would eat it joyfully everytime. It makes me feel like I'm not that far from home(Philippines).

The red currant is a member of a genus Ribes in the gooseberry family Grossulariaceae. The fruits of red currant are a good source of B1 and C, and are rich in iron, phophorus, potassium, fibre, copper and manganese.

Fruit Diet

Hubby and I met sometime in November 2007. He was thin and so was I. After 1 year and 5 months I gained like 10 kilos and hubby gained 20 kilos(grrr). How I wish I can turn back time (daydreaming). The clothes that I left here when I returned to Phil are now very tight to me. Whenever I look at the mirror I miss my thinner body. I miss the days when I just can fit all the clothes I like in Phil. My husband always says that he wants to go to a diet so he can lose some pounds but it is always difficult for both of us to do such. We always love to do our hobby called EATING. Last week he said he would do the Juice Diet and the Fruit Diet. Lately, I've been busy in the kitchen peeling the apples, pears, carrots and garlic, juicing them. My husband likes it but I hate the taste. And in the shop we don't buy much meat anymore, we buy fruits more. I'm learning to love this fruit diet thing of ours. It is so difficult to control yourself from eating. Just the good thing about this diet thing is that I'm in Denmark and all the food that I love are far away from me. Though I'm missing the Filipino foods. I hope this fruit diet will be successful but all in all, what matters most here is discipline to our selves