Kumquats

What is sweet on the outside and sour on the inside? ....No, not me, but that is a good guess...

Let's try again: What's sweet on the outside, sour on the inside, is a fruit, and rhymes with bum squats?

KUMQUATS!

This fine evening I finally got around to trying these crazy little guys! This food is for my cousin Becca, who found it to be the most amusing sounding food name to suggest to me. (It is a fun word to say over and over again fast, just try it!)

So here we go, "I ate a kumquat!"

Okay well these kumquats look like little oranges

Some varieties are sweet on the inside and sour on the outside, and others are the other way around.

I think I had one of the sour on the inside varieties. Regardless, they started out with a sharp lemony taste, but shockingly ended without any bitter aftertaste. They were yummy enough, but not something I would want to go chomping on over and over again. To boot, they had lots of seeds in them.

Thinking they would be really tasty with some other chopped fruit I added them to some mango. This was great, but what was even better was mango kumquat salsa! Be sure to cut the kumquats into quarters, and scrape all of the little seeds out. You can even add just the peels and scrape the filling out instead, the outside is the tasty part.

How much more delicious could this be!? (I promise, not much more delicious)


For those of you who were wondering what the heck is in here:
1 cubed haden mango
1/4 lb of kumquats,
juice from a large half of a VERY very ripe and juicy lime (you should use a whole one) 
about a cup of cubed cucumber
about 2 tablespoons of diced red onion
and lots of cilantro. 

Tastes great with a little sea salt, but be sure to eat within a day after adding the salt, because it draws the juices out and it gets watery!