Last week I shared our (very) small Meyer lemon harvest. Today it's the satsuma orange harvest that was quite a bit larger.
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| Owari Satsuma oranges |
Got these off before the last hard freeze. Almost a dozen were on the tree so we pulled them off.
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| Peeled Satsuma orange |
They peeled so nicely. I think I've read that they call them zipper peels or something like that. They just separated so easily from the orange itself. Then the orange segments just sort of opened up like this.
Pretty cool.
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| Peeled oranges |
They were delicious and we ate quite a few segments. 2nd Man couldn't get over how "orange" they tasted...meaning that they tasted how you imagine an orange SHOULD taste.
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| Putting up orange segments |
The rest of them I stood at the sink and peeled off the little white pithy (is that a word?) parts on the outside of each segment and put them in a baggie. We are trying to decide if we should freeze them? I mean, we'll have another crop in the Spring and hopefully for years to come but can you freeze oranges like this?
It's so much fun growing these trees. We're having a great time learning the ins and outs of raising fruit. It's definitely a process of winning and losing and winning again but hey, if we can get our own mini orchard cranking out fruit by the buckets full in the end, then it's all worth it for sure.
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