I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
really noticed, but do they have a "season".
I have been looking for some recently and
no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
so if you can find the others all year round why
not tangerines. It's very frustrating.

I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
Sheesh!

Kate

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Kate Connally wrote:
> I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
> really noticed, but do they have a "season".
> I have been looking for some recently and
> no one seems to have any. *There are oranges,
> grapefruits, lemons, limes. *I see those all
> year round. *Why no tangerines? *I would think
> all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
> so if you can find the others all year round why
> not tangerines. *It's very frustrating.
>
> I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
> Test Kitchen. *I got it a couple of weeks ago. *It's
> for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. *Of course,
> they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
> juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
> it with tangerines! *Damn! *They shouldn't have sent me
> that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.

All produce has a season. Califonia tangerines are a winter fruit,
usually in peak season from late October thru mid January (you will
usually see tangerines displayed at Christmas time). Even snow peas
are seasonal, which is why they're expensive and so often they are in
sad shape. Snow peas are easy to grow, but they don't ship well, also
why they're expensive and usually limp and tasteless. Once you've
grown and eaten your own fresh picked snow peas and see how
extrodinarlly prolific they are you will never buy them again... and
even though snow peas are too delicate to ship well they freeze very
well (low water content) toss still frozen snow peas into your stir
fry and tehy'll still be better than the compost-ready crap in the
stupidmarket.

What you want for your stir fry recipe is dried tangerine peel, not
juice. And if you insist on juice frozen tangerine juice concentrate
is much more suitable Next time tangerines are availble save some
peels and dry them, they will keep a very long time, and can be
powdered for recipe use.

http://www.seasonalchef.com/chef032002.htm

Sheldon

Kate Connally wrote:

> I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
> really noticed, but do they have a "season".
> I have been looking for some recently and
> no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
> grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
> year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
> all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
> so if you can find the others all year round why
> not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
>
> I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
> Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
> for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
> they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
> juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
> it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
> that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
> Sheesh!

I'm pretty sure my local supermarket still has tangerines available. I
know they have Clementines (which are some sort of hybrid), but rather
expensive.




Brian

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"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
...

>
> I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
> Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
> for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
> they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
> juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
> it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
> that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
> Sheesh!
>
> Kate
>?
>

Funny you should mention tangerines. I just purchased about 3 pounds this
afternoon at the local green grocers. I paid .39/pound, and last month he
has them for .29/pound. I saw them at TJ's, but I didn't catch the price.
It must depend on where you live. Here in SoCal, we get all sorts of fruit
and vegetables that are not available to those living east of the Rockies.

Harriet & Critters (J J the world famous jack russell terrior and PK the
lady manx who rules the house...both of whom are getting used to food from
Whole Food's and TJ's.).

On Apr 30, 12:21 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
> I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
> really noticed, but do they have a "season".
> I have been looking for some recently and
> no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
> grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
> year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
> all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
> so if you can find the others all year round why
> not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
>
> Kate

To answer the question regarding availability and seasons, tangerines
were available at Costco last week along with Clementines - both
imported from Spain. They are generally available there at different
times of the year at Costco. I also saw some tangerines from Florida
very recently.
Dee Dee

"Dee Dee" > wrote
>
> To answer the question regarding availability and seasons, tangerines
> were available at Costco last week along with Clementines - both
> imported from Spain. They are generally available there at different
> times of the year at Costco. I also saw some tangerines from Florida
> very recently.

My sister has a tree in her back yard that stays full.

Harriet Neal wrote:
> "Kate Connally" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>
>>I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
>>Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
>>for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
>>they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
>>juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
>>it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
>>that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
>>Sheesh!
>>
>>Kate
>>?

>
>
> Funny you should mention tangerines. I just purchased about 3 pounds this
> afternoon at the local green grocers. I paid .39/pound, and last month he
> has them for .29/pound. I saw them at TJ's, but I didn't catch the price.
> It must depend on where you live. Here in SoCal, we get all sorts of fruit
> and vegetables that are not available to those living east of the Rockies.
>
> Harriet & Critters (J J the world famous jack russell terrior and PK the
> lady manx who rules the house...both of whom are getting used to food from
> Whole Food's and TJ's.).

Well, I live in PA. We get just about every fruit
imaginable year round these days. One notable
exception - pomegranates. Although now that you
can buy the juice and TJ's has the seeds it's not
a problem. I just don't see why all the other citrus
is available year round and not tangerines. I'll have
to check TJ's later this week. They may have them or
they may have the juice, although I also need the
zest but I could get along without that. I suppose
there may be a few specialty stores that may have
them but the regular supermarket - even big ones -
don't have them now.

Kate


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“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

Kate Connally wrote:
> I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
> really noticed, but do they have a "season".
> I have been looking for some recently and
> no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
> grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
> year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
> all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
> so if you can find the others all year round why
> not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
>
> I wanted to make this new recipe I got from America's
> Test Kitchen. I got it a couple of weeks ago. It's
> for Tangerine Stir-fried Beef and Snow Peas. Of course,
> they say you can substitute orange juice for tangerine
> juice but they don't taste the same and I want to make
> it with tangerines! Damn! They shouldn't have sent me
> that recipe now if tangerines aren't currently available.
> Sheesh!
>
> Kate
>
I have seen tangerines at both TJs and Whole Foods in the past week.
Their stock is waning, so I imagine they won't be available for much
longer. I don't know how many boxes we went through at work during the
holiday season. I kept buying them so we'd have fruit instead of eating
all the candy that was coming in the door.

--
Caryn
Caryn Nadelberg - Mommy to Sam and Queen of the May
www.carynen.blogspot.com

On 1 May 2007 02:05:19 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
wrote:

>Gone to young men, every one.
>When will they ever learn?
>When will they ever learn?

i thought about that, too, but i was too lazy to look up the lyrics.
(don't have them by heart - i guess i'm not the hippie i thought i
was.)

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:
> On 1 May 2007 02:05:19 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:
>
>>Gone to young men, every one.
>>When will they ever learn?
>>When will they ever learn?
>
> i thought about that, too, but i was too lazy to look up the lyrics.
> (don't have them by heart - i guess i'm not the hippie i thought i
> was.)

Didn't have to look it up; too many times playing the song on my old
Gibson acoustic back in the day.

--
Blinky T. "don't think twice, it's all right" Shark

In article >,
Kate Connally > wrote:
>I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
>really noticed, but do they have a "season".
>I have been looking for some recently and
>no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
>grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
>year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
>all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
>so if you can find the others all year round why
>not tangerines. It's very frustrating.

No, citrus does not have the same season. Tangerines and clementines are
definitely cool-season fruits around here; this is the tag end of the
season. I don't often see them outside of season.

Much like many other fruits (peaches, plums, apples off the top of my
head ...), different varietals come ripe at different parts of the season.

In addition, many citrus farmers got badly hurt by our extended cold snap
earlier this year. Specialty crops like tangerines were hard-hit.

Charlotte
--

Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:

> In article >,
> Kate Connally > wrote:
> >I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
> >really noticed, but do they have a "season".
> >I have been looking for some recently and
> >no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
> >grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
> >year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
> >all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
> >so if you can find the others all year round why
> >not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
>
> No, citrus does not have the same season. Tangerines and clementines are
> definitely cool-season fruits around here; this is the tag end of the
> season. I don't often see them outside of season.
>
> Much like many other fruits (peaches, plums, apples off the top of my
> head ...), different varietals come ripe at different parts of the season.
>
> In addition, many citrus farmers got badly hurt by our extended cold snap
> earlier this year. Specialty crops like tangerines were hard-hit.
>


Changing the topic but recently plain 'ole onions have been pretty expensive
(here in Chicawgo). A whiles back a three - pound bag of ordinary cooking
onions was running FOUR bux or more a bag at some stupormarkets, red and
other onions were running two bux per pound...never had to consider onions
as "luxury" item before, lol.

Asian stores had them a bit cheaper, and found some nice and cheap shallots
at one place so I used them...IIRC Aldi had 3# bags of cooking onions in
their circular a whiles back for $1.29, this is usually a "normal" price at
many places.

They are down a bit now, but what was up with that, simply price gouging
or...???

A chef friend mentioned several weeks ago that a case of plain onions was
$37.00/case wholesale, very high...

--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow > wrote:

>They are down a bit now, but what was up with that, simply price gouging
>or...???

>A chef friend mentioned several weeks ago that a case of plain onions was
>$37.00/case wholesale, very high...

High fuel costs? Weak dollar? Cold snap? Drought? Crackdown
on farm labor?

S.

Steve Pope wrote:

> Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>
> >They are down a bit now, but what was up with that, simply price gouging
> >or...???
>
> >A chef friend mentioned several weeks ago that a case of plain onions was
> >$37.00/case wholesale, very high...
>
> High fuel costs? Weak dollar? Cold snap? Drought? Crackdown
> on farm labor?


I dunno...I haven't seen much if anything about this...someone mentioned
"The High Price of Onions" a whiles back on a thread on the Chicago food
board www.lthforum.com

Vidalias are just appearing, they are $1.49/lb, that I can live with...

Lettuce and stupormarket tomatoes are somewhat reasonable again, as is
orange juice, red bell peppers and asparagus. And I've gotten beautiful
Texas Ruby Red grapefruit, it's been as low as .29 cents/lb....

--
Best
Greg

Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:

> In article >,
> Kate Connally > wrote:
>
>>I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
>>really noticed, but do they have a "season".
>>I have been looking for some recently and
>>no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
>>grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
>>year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
>>all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
>>so if you can find the others all year round why
>>not tangerines. It's very frustrating.
>
>
> No, citrus does not have the same season. Tangerines and clementines are
> definitely cool-season fruits around here; this is the tag end of the
> season. I don't often see them outside of season.

Yeah, but why don't we get them from the southern
hemisphere then? It's cool down there when it's
hot up here, so we ought to get them all year round.
From Chile or Argentina or some place like that.
We get other produce from the southern hemisphere when
it's not in season up here.

Kate

Kate Connally wrote:


> Yeah, but why don't we get them from the southern
> hemisphere then? It's cool down there when it's
> hot up here, so we ought to get them all year round.
> From Chile or Argentina or some place like that.
> We get other produce from the southern hemisphere when
> it's not in season up here.


I think it's a bit early yet, being only fall there. Around here, a
major producer of off-season citrus seems to be South Africa.



Brian

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