Today I ate the “unripe” fruit of a Cacao Tree. It tasted like a melon. Apparently they’re like that and you have to wait until it’s hard before you can make chocolate out of it.
Marco’s brother took me on a detailed tour of the backyard. He showed me the avocado tree, a young papaya tree, sweet limes, mandarin limes, mandarin orange, a tree that you use the leaves to make tea, ginger, and a whole bunch of miscellaneous herbs.
(Mom, remember that octopus looking thing that Marco would get in the jar from the Hispanic market…. Yeah, they have a tree that grows that stuff here too.)
Apples are a little expensive here. Right now you can get an apple for 12 lempiras, around Christmas time the price rises to about 16 lempiras per apple. This is a LOT considering there was a lady walking up the street the other day selling oranges 3 per lempira. They were really good oranges for making juice. We actually took the juice and blended them up in the blender with bananas for a nice fruity drink.
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