Rose Apple and Guava

Rose Apple
This is a rose apple, a fruit currently in season in Thailand. It has the texture of a crunchy watermelon and is very juicy but with no real distinctive taste.

You can barely see the core when you cut it in half; basically do not eat the core and the hollow bottom part. I find the Rose Apples refreshing and a very nice alternative to the typical north american apples that I am used to eat. In Thailand they do sell the regular Granny Smith, Red Delicious and other types of apples but they are very expensive as they are imported from the States or Australia.

Guava
The Guava is not a very juicy nor very sweet fruit, you can eat it as an apple but personally, after my first try of this fruit, I prefer juicing it.

Inside the Guava are seeds and a softer and more juicier centre. Apparently, you should be able to eat the seeds but with this one, they were way too hard and small to break with the teeth. I am not sure if the Guava was not ripe enough...will need to test the theory of buying one and leaving it in the fruit basket to see if it will make a difference.

Since we moved into our condo, we bought a juicer and have been having fun juicing various fruits and vegetables at our disposition. I am still exploring the world of green leaves for my green smoothies and juices and so far only the local kale has proven good. Given that a green leaf is a green leaf, a couple of weeks ago, I ventured to try something unknown to me. I bought this green "thing" thinking how bad can it be. Well, once juiced up, this green "thing" turned out to be very thick and gelatinous almost to the point of refusing to mix with the other liquid juiced up in the mixture. I could see the little island of gooey green gathering after being still for a while.

People who know me well, know that I really, really, really....really dislike gelatinous texture (eg. the uncooked white part of sunny side up egg, or the typical Japanese sweet and sour gooey soup). So needless to say that I was not too impressed with this green "thing", which to this day, I still have no idea what it is. I did some research online hoping to find what it was and how Thai people use it but had no luck.