{"id":12311,"date":"2012-12-21T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myhalalkitchen.com\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:31:50","slug":"what-exactly-is-a-persimmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myhalalkitchen.com\/what-exactly-is-a-persimmon\/","title":{"rendered":"What Exactly is a Persimmon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering whether a <strong>persimmon<\/strong> is some type of tomato or if it&#8217;s even a fruit or a vegetable, let me tell you that the most I know is it&#8217;s a fruit that grows and is consumed widely in <strong>Mediterranean climates<\/strong> during the winter, although it&#8217;s also consumed widely in <strong>Asia<\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"nice angle of persimmon by myhalalkitchen2, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80481980@N06\/8293662134\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"nice angle of persimmon\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8500\/8293662134_80752eec0d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Hachiya Persimmon Fruit\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As Mediterranean blooded as I am, I have never tried a single persimmon.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I see them all the time in the stores here in <strong>Chicago<\/strong> during the winter (like now) and to be honest, the main reason I never buy them is because I tend to compare the taste of a lot of Mediterranean foods bought here with the same taste as I&#8217;ve experienced in <strong>Italy, Spain, Morocco and California<\/strong>&#8212; and most of the time nothing even comes close to that type of freshness. I don&#8217;t want to ruin my taste buds or experience with something that will disappoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"large and up close persimmon by myhalalkitchen2, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80481980@N06\/8292608453\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"large and up close persimmon\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8081\/8292608453_38d3e686f6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Well, this year I am giving these a try regardless. They look beautiful and I know that I need to let them soften a bit before doing anything with them so I&#8217;m going to do just that and then get back to you with the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For now, I&#8217;ll wait and see&#8230;and conjure up some recipe ideas. \u00a0<strong>Persimmon jam<\/strong>, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Have you ever tried persimmons? \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">How would you describe them? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">How do you suggest eating them best?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering whether a persimmon is some type of tomato or if it&#8217;s even a fruit or a vegetable, let me tell you that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3752],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Exactly is a Persimmon? 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