11/18/2023 0 Comments Canary melon![]() The fruity, mild taste finishes with a note of cool, spicy mint that may coax one to say, “What is that taste?”-and to have another investigative bite, and another, and another, and another. The flesh is white to pink, juicy and sweet. A ripe Sharlyn-a variety that originated in the 1400s around Algeria and Italy-is fragrant and musky, and a grocer’s stall piled high with them can fill a shop with the fruits’ natural perfume. This melon is the shape of a football with the skin texture of a cantaloupe-but so much better than that ubiquitous Budweiser of melons. This salsa includes most of the basic ingredients of pico de gallo salsa, as well as the sweet, crisp flesh of the Hami melon. ![]() If you have a taste for the spicy, add paprika. The salsa resembled a standard pico de gallo with boosted sweetness thanks to the Hami melon. We used a j icama-melon salsa recipe from Yum Scrub Organics, replaced the jicama with fresh tomatoes, added red onion and served with homemade tortillas. The Hami is a Chinese variety of muskmelon, elongate, with a distinctive spider web pattern radiating over its yellow-gold hide and bearing very sweet peach-colored flesh. Here are six of the best melons worth watching for this summer, plus great dishes to make with them: Nearly all these melons are great when ripe-but some are better than others. Some of these are favorite heirlooms born centuries ago and maintained by seed saving others are more modern creations of scientific breeding programs. Scores of melon varieties - beyond just the honeydew and cantaloupe - are available in the United States, especially from smaller farmers. Some farmers don’t even water their melon vines at all-they call it dry-farming, which supposedly intensifies many fruits’ flavors-and still, football-size creatures with names like Rayann, Sharlyn, Charentais and Santa Claus swell toward ripeness. It’s the season, and the hotter and more miserable the weather gets for the rest of us, the better it often is for these juicy sun-lovers. Under the blazing summer sun, they bulge out of fields of parched dirt, dead grass and lifeless dust, almost like a parable for the spontaneous appearance of Earth’s first life: melons. ![]() The Crenshaw melon (left) and the Canary melon are just two of the many melon varieties that will appear in markets this summer.
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