You ate pizza and chips all weekend. Now it’s time to get your diet back on track.
How?
We recommend cara cara oranges, also known as pink navels.
They have pinkish-red flesh and their flavor is an ideal balance of sour, sweet and low acid. They are juicy, but firm.
And they peel easily, not California-mandarin-Cutie easy, but pretty darn easy as navels go.
They are seedless and oh-my-goodness fragrant.
You may find opening up a cara cara is worth the price just for the aromatherapy.
Then you eat one and all that fragrance translates into pure and total citrus bliss.
Where can you get them?
Your best bet is Costco, which sells the largest and juiciest ones we’ve been able to find, usually in 8-pound bags for about $8.
We’ve also spotted them in bulk the past few days at PCC and Top Food & Drug in Edmonds. Though they aren’t quite as big at those stores, their flavor is still amazing.
According to Florida-based Seald Sweet, one of two distributors selling the orange orbs at Costco, the season for California cara caras is December through May.
Fresno-based Trinity Fruit, a distributor that sells smaller-size cara caras at Costco, lists the California season as November through March.
Either way you look at it, you need to get on this now. You don’t want to miss out.
We eat them raw, but you’ll find cara cara recipes at www.sunkist.com.
What is your favorite type of citrus? Tangelos? Minneolas? Giant pummelos?
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Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.
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