Not really a recipe, but wow! These things rock! I'd never heard of them until today when I saw some at the store and bought some.

Recipe:

Buy kumquats
Eat them, peel and everything.

They're the size of large grapes and citrus fruits. They look like orange lemons. You eat the peel though which you wouldn't do on a lemon - you could but really shouldn't as lemon peels taste bad.

I dunno...kumquat just doesn't sound like something you would eat....it sound more like something out of the Kama Sutra!

Good picture. Remember though - they're only about an inch long.

Just to put this sort of on topic for the recipe forum:

http://www.kumquatgrowers.com/recipes.html

Kumquat recipes galore!

You eat the peel? That looks like it'd taste yucky

So kinda like a grape or a nectorine?

Weird.

They're cheap, too. I forget what they cost but it comes out to like one-third of what limes cost...at least in CA.

For all you chefs out there.

I got bored last time I was home so I made a lemon meringue pie from scratch (crust and all) and got to thinking - while lemons are great kumquats are better. Would a kumquat meringue pie be good?

Also, if you don't like people eating your pies, make the filling a weird color. I made the lemon meringue pie filling purple (red + blue food coloring) and the idiots at my house thought it was a plum pie and wouldn't eat it :haha: That wasn't my intention but I thought it was funny.


EDIT: I'm not crazy. A quick yahoo! search of "kumquat meringue pie" and there's recipes galore! I don't need a recipe as I'll just substitute lemon juice for kumquat juice, but that's great news.

Wow, that really sounds sort of good!

You should definitely try that out.

Oh well; you'll just have to wait.

I kept forgetting to go and find them when I got back home.

So what, in November I will set a reminder to go to the store and buy some.

only one seed compared to hundreds.

You eat the seeds on kumquats because you're supposed to eat them whole. Just pick off the stem (if it's there) and pop the whole thing in your mouth. Pucker up as they're sour as

Bought a kumquat tree today. Unlike the pomegranate tree we bought last fall, this had fruit on it (about 15 kumquats).

Of the kumquats most are green and small. One was orange and edible (I ate it, it tasted like it should). Another is very close to ready but I'll let it wait a few days.


The tree is pretty tiny so it isn't expected to produce much yet.