Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce
A great way to use up your sweet red peppers: a roasted red pepper cream sauce with garlic and shallots. This simple cream sauce is great served with poultry and fish.
Month: July 2015
How to Eat a Dragon Fruit or Pitahaya
The exotic dragon fruit (pitahaya) also goes by the name ‘moonflower’, which gets its name from it nocturnal blooming nature. There are three different varieties of the sweet dragon fruit, each sporting a different colored fruit, and a sour dragon fruit. Each is refreshing to eat fresh in its own way.
No matter the variety, here is how to eat a dragon fruit.
How to Eat a Dragon Fruit
There are two basic ways to eat a dragon fruit: peel and cut up into cubes; or scoop the flesh out with a spoon. Chill before eating for best flavor. The dragon fruit makes a very pretty addition to fruit salads and smoothies.
- Cut the dragon fruit in half and either cut off the peel with a sharp paring knife, or scoop out the cut half with a spoon. The seeds are edible, but the skin isn’t, so if there is any remaining skin trim that off. Then, cut the fruit up.
- Cut the dragon fruit in half. Use a spoon to scoop the flesh out, omitting any of the skin.