Just when my patience with summer heat was about to dry up completely, I walked in to the local market and saw the first of the summer muscadines. Oh yes. Their sweet, cool particularity (they are unlike any other fruit, including other grapes) - combined in a snack with the salty warmth of fresh boiled peanuts - may get me through this near record-breaking heat.
Here's more on why you, too, should love muscadines, and how you can boil your own peanuts. These are both best eaten from a bowl balanced on your belly while you are floating in an innter tube in a cold spring.
Happy Dog Days of Summer!
Yes! I love them too! I saw a long time ago that there are some u-pick places just north of here (Tampa Bay) so I'll try finding those names again. How exciting! Last year I did see them in Publix as well, but farm fresh is always better.
Posted by: laia | August 02, 2010 at 06:05 PM