In season

We are loving partaking of the local seasonal foods. Some of our favorites include the persimmons (orange tomato-like looking fruits that taste like nothing else we know), passion fruits (hard dark purple/
green shells that one cuts (saws) open and spoons out the delicious small amount of tomato-like-consistency innards: orange flesh w/small greenish seeds), and pomelos (look like huge misshapen grapefruits, but have their very own not too juicy and yummy citrus flavor). Pomegranate season has past and shesek (loquats) season is not yet here. Among those fruits and vegetables you know that are especially delicious and extremely inexpensive here: the tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, fennel, peppers, eggplants, artichokes, oranges, lemons. A friend here was curious to hear that they are now growing acorn squash here and we will soon be able to get them in the stores. She had no idea what it was. The hard squashes and cold weather crops we enjoy in Wisconsin are not so available here: no big Idaho bakers, winter squash, the celery and broccoli are not so great, and all the varieties of greens (chard, spinach, kale, and the like) we love are only meagerly represented. Also the milk and dairy products are excellent, so we are not missing Wisconsin in that way...