How to Fall In Love With Summer Fruit
I love the produce section of my grocery store in the summertime.
Fruits of the red, blue, orange, and purple varieties stop me in my tracks.
Recently, I had to pause for a moment to adore the neatly piled nectarines, apples, peaches, and plums laid out in front of me.
I glance the other way and find bunches of beautiful green grapes next to the reddest raspberries and the bluest blueberries.
After this experience, I know I can’t go home empty-handed.
I’m going to get some, but I have some hard decisions ahead of me – not just which ones I’m going to take home, but a choice that is even harder for me than that – how do I pick the juiciest, sweetest, ripest peach, plum, nectarine, etc?
What do I look for?
What do I feel for?
What do I smell for?
My hope is that if you come across this problem as well, that you’re able to pick the ripest and tastiest piece of fruit.
In other words, the way to fall in love with summer fruit is to know how to pick the right ones.
What’s more, the summer is a great time to substitute your evening ice cream with an evening fruit instead.
To help you (and myself) out, I found a few guides that might be helpful the next time you visit your local grocery store or farmer’s market this summer.
Each guide will offer something unique that you might learn, so I suggest checking them all out!
The Food Network: The Ultimate Summer Fruit Guide
- For: strawberries, blueberries, cherries, blackberries, peaches, melons, raspberries, nectarines, and pluots
The Huffington Post: 12 Tricks For Buying the Ripest Summer Produce
- For: pineapples, cantaloupes, eggplant, watermelon, tomato, corn, mangoes, strawberries, honeydews, avocados, peaches, and plums
Eating Well: How to Pick the Five Best Summer Ripe Fruit
- For: raspberries, strawberries, peaches, watermelon, and blueberries
Thanks to these articles, I ended up coming home the other day with the ripest and tastiest nectarine, plum, cherries, grapes, blueberries, and watermelon (yes, I got all those!), and I hope you do too.
Enjoy the fruits of your labor!
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