Frank - 6-7-2005 at 04:00 PM
Yellow fruit and about the size of a big cherry with a seed in the middle.
We usually get a couple of bags in San Bartolo on the way down to Verdugos. Well this year my wife has summer classes {cardiovascular} and cant
make the annual trip. Our usual stop is the last fruit stand as you leave SB, cant pass on the empanadas too.
Since I cant bring some back for the wife{ the last time she had them was in the Phillipines as a little girl}, has anyone seen these little
jewels farther north?
I hope the fishing picks up, Im southbound June 24th!
BTW we practice Catch Photograph Release, CPR, except for dinner. Frank
ciruelo
tehag - 6-7-2005 at 06:57 PM
Ciruelos son muy sabrosos. According to Baja Plant Field Guide by Norman Roberts this wild plum is endemic to the southern penninsula and a few
islands.
Thanks!
Frank - 6-7-2005 at 07:40 PM
Thank you for the spanish name. I only knew them by the tagalog{phillipines}name. I hope they are in season by the time I reach San Bartolo.
Oso - 6-7-2005 at 07:47 PM
ciruelo= plum
Eli - 6-8-2005 at 08:08 AM
Thanks Frank, Now that you mention Ciruelo's, you got my mouth watering for one of those tasty little ciruelo lolly pops.
I use to get them at Chapitos in the "home grown" candy section. They are a ciruelo coated with a red hard candy, really salty, I can't remember if
they have chili or not. Anyway one sucks on them down to the seed. Always my favorite way to eat an otherwise kind of bitter musty tasting little
fruit. They might have them in a kind of paste form with sugar and chili in tiny plastic bags in the same section of the store.
Or, maybe they have "canned ciruelos or in the form of a bar in the homemade candy section in San Bartolo where you are getting those too good to be
true empanadas.
I don't know if that would solve your wifes cravings or would be very good for her right now, or even if one could take them across the boarder? Surly
in that form they would not quilfy as fresh fruit.
Have fun fishing, Sara
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bajalera - 6-8-2005 at 09:37 AM
And save the ciruela seeds, crack them open and enjoy the little nuts--chuniques [sp?]--which taste sort of like almonds.
Ciruelos
Jack Swords - 6-8-2005 at 10:33 AM
We had several ciruelo trees on our place in Todos Santos. There are red and yellow varieties and selections that are larger than the wild ones. They
are actually a relative of the mango. There is a saying in La Paz, that if you eat one of the wild ciruelos from the Magote you will always return to
La Paz. Unfortunately, the developers of the real estate project on the magote have bulldozed much of the vegetation, including the wild ciruelos.
ciruelos
tehag - 6-8-2005 at 03:51 PM
Again citing Norman Roberts: flowering in May, ripening in late summer/fall.