Pangaia Post 2

April 30th, 2009

Macadamia nuts and a champudeck, oh this is heaven. The spiky fruit below is called a champudeck (chomp-pu-deck). Never heard of it? Me neither, I had no idea this fruit even existed. I thought it was a durian at first, but I was quickly corrected by. There both spiky right? I consulted the oracle of information (Google) about champudecks and I only found minuscule amounts of information. It may be known by another name but as far as I’m concerned  champudeck sounds pretty good to me. When I asked how to spell it someone replied, any way you want??? I love that line of thinking, I will be applying it to more things in life. So here it is, a chapmudeck in all it’s fruity, fruity glory.

Spiky and soft on the outside and very, very fragrant when ripe. I’ve never smelled such a strong fruit before. Not in a bad way, it doesn’t stink but it’s so fragrant you could smell it from ten feet away, unopened, crazy!

When fully ripe you open them by tearing the soft skin with your hands. Inside are fruit covered seed pods and sticky fibrous fruit strands that kind of melt in your mouth, yum.

This is Olucean, he’s a member of Pangaia and maintains the gardens, he’s highly knowledgeable about exotic fruit and was so nice to share this lovely chompudeck.

The shiny seeds of this exotic beauty are saved with the intent of planting new champudeck trees.

These cute little guys are macadamia nuts! I’m not used to seeing them with  the shell so I had no idea what they were until someone told me. They have two shells, on the left is the dark brown outer shell and on the right is the light brown inner shell.

Pangaia’s macadamia nut cracker makes it easy to open these babies.  I could sit in Hawaii and open macadamia nuts for hours, I love the tropics:) Fresh out out of the shell, so cute, so tasty…hooray for Hawaii!!

P.S. I’m blogging from my very own computer! My last PC was a work computer so I bought a little Macbook and I dig it. It’s my first Mac so it’s taking me a little while to figure it out but I look cool typing;)

♥ Lesley Anne ♥

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