I have a new taste obsession. It is called papaya and cinnamon.
Do you know that feeling? When you bump into something and wonder “why did I not do this before?” In fact, I have eaten this before, I like putting cinnamon and ginger on both papaya and Grapefruit. But that was probably 2 years ago.
Now, I found it again. Try to find a really spicy and uneven cinnamon. Looks nice and tastes amazing. And I eat it for Breakfast, and as dessert.
I would love to hear your best fruit/spice combinations. They could work as an excellent guideline to make interesting jams!
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By the way, I once I did a soft ginger bread cake and served it nice and messy with chopped up grapefruit on top. It was sooo good! I have to do the same thing with papaya when I get home. Yes, I am on holiday. On my own. And there is tons of cinnamon and papaya in Sri Lanka!
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Spännande med kanel på papayan! Själv e jag ju inte så förtjust i just papaya, men med lite kanel på kanske det blir en ny smakupplevelse!
Andra smakkombinationer som funkar utmärkt i sylt & marmelad är bland annat rabarber med kanel, plommon med vanilj, hallon el körsbär med lakrits, jordgubb med lite sprit av valfri sort som man gillar, själv har jag gjort med Cointreau, mkt smarrigt blev det!
Längtar efter sommaren nu, el egentligen efter det som trädgården har att erbjuda när det är sommar… 🙂
Underbart Anna! Nu vet jag vad jag ska göra med den där lakrits såsen hemma i skåpet som aldrig används. Med hallon låter toppen.
Min personliga favorit är rabarber vanilj och whisky. Eller krusbär/Vodka. Eller, mycket oväntat, Aronia/Konjak! Smultron/Vanilj är också toppen. Eller Kvitte/Champagne.
Annars brukar jag tänka “vilken cocktail är jag sugen på?” och så slutar det lätt med Apelsin/Aperol.
I forgot Blueberry/Cardamon. It is also a hit.
Happy Holiday! Papaya and cinnamon sound like they were meant to be.
Some favourite fruit/spice (i am including herbs as spices if i may) combinations of mine include pineapple with cardamon, plum with rosemary (i also once tried apricot and rosemary ice cream and it blew my mind), grapefruit with lavender, mango with vadouvan, citrus with chiles (like this addictive citrus salsa http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/a-citrus-salsa-with-kick/), lemon and black pepper (black pepper does something exciting to a sweet lemon sorbet), peach with ginger, pear also with ginger, raspberry with jalapeno, and lemon with basil (i love lots of basil in lemonade).
now you’ve got me excited to make jam too!
Wow Sasha, That is an impressive list! I will try it all slowly as soon as the spring comes 🙂
By the way, No spiced up fruit juices here in Sri Lanka. You had such amazing ideas from India, what was that again? I just remember the cardamon..
And you are in Sri Lanka just at the beginning of mango season, must be amazing!
I was spoiled by the fruit juices in India. These are some of my favourites: pomegranate and mint, pineapple and cardamom (which is how I got obsessed with this flavour combination – grilled pineapple with a just a little bit of cardamom or cardamom in pineapple compote are both magical things), banana, apple and cinnamon, limeade with ginger, fennel, clove and honey, lemonade with ginger and mint, watermelon with mint. I also enjoyed a warm glass of milk with either turmeric or saffron before bed a few times. Makes it hard to want to drink juice in Germany!
Ach Sasha, you make me want to go home and use the juicer myself. I feel like an idiot as I am constantly bringing my own cinnamon and cardamom along here (so far they where only able to add ginger in the juices). Saffron milk sounds great! Never liked Milk with honey but with saffron I would fall asleep in a second!
Sasha, This sounds like something for you..
http://whenharrymetcelery.wordpress.com/
Got it from Sonal Ved, Mumbai.
Thank you for sharing my link. Can’t wait to try papaya and cinnamon. It’s unique!
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