I will happily dive face first onto any kind of melon. Cantaloupe, honeydew, water, doesn’t matter; I’m there.
Question for you though: how do you feel about cucumbers? I ask because they are related and the light bitter flavour of both is cucurbitacin. Though cucumber skin has much more than a melons flesh.
Same here, I don’t care for cantalopes but I like honeydew, watermelon is alright but not my favourite. Pickles are much better than cucumbers and pickled beets are better than plain ones, except in šaltibarščiai where you really need fresh ones or it doesn’t taste right.
The web links I could find all spell it šaltibarščiai, we called it ‘salty-barky’ when we were kids, my Great-Grandmother came straight from Lithuania and passed the recipe down, I still make it in the summer, hubby calls it ‘pepto soup’ 😛
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Cyfrin
I will happily dive face first onto any kind of melon. Cantaloupe, honeydew, water, doesn’t matter; I’m there.
Question for you though: how do you feel about cucumbers? I ask because they are related and the light bitter flavour of both is cucurbitacin. Though cucumber skin has much more than a melons flesh.
SurlyQueen
I love watermelon and honeydew is pretty good, but I can’t stand cantaloupe (or Athena, lol).
Cukes are also terrible, because of the vaguely melon flavor, but I love pickles.
Llywenna
Same here, I don’t care for cantalopes but I like honeydew, watermelon is alright but not my favourite. Pickles are much better than cucumbers and pickled beets are better than plain ones, except in šaltibarščiai where you really need fresh ones or it doesn’t taste right.
The web links I could find all spell it šaltibarščiai, we called it ‘salty-barky’ when we were kids, my Great-Grandmother came straight from Lithuania and passed the recipe down, I still make it in the summer, hubby calls it ‘pepto soup’ 😛
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