I'm about to go buy ten or twenty pounds of navel oranges, ask me anything

:hi:

That's a lot to eat by yourself.


I just bought o.j.

We'd finished up the navel juice I squoze. I'm buying oranges next time. The work is worth it.

The ones they use for scurvy are Naval oranges. :patriot:

Oh, that was bad! :blush:

Thanks for killing the thread :P

just askin

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oops, wrong thread :blush:

I'll be sure to throw 'em away

I bet not.

I'm asking because mah Sweetie came home from work with 20 lbs
of them the other day- a co-worker's kid was having a band
fundrasier or some such...

So now I've got 20 pounds of oranges I need to use up before they go bad,
and I'm looking for ways to do it. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You can eat them, juice them, make preserves, make a tart, make candied orange peels, etc.

...but the "preserves" idea really strikes a chord!

I've kinda got a tiny "cult following" amongst my circle of friends
for some of my offbeat recipes. (5 or 10 people, tops...)

Most especially, my recipes that put habeñero peppers in new and exciting places.
I can't make my "sweet-n-sour red hot fruit compote" often enough for them.

I've got four small habañero bushes spending the winter in my living room,
-AND- I've been getting into "canning" again over the last year or so.

So maybe a hot-n-spicy variation on a traditional English Marmalade could let
me kill THREE birds with one stone? I've got too many fresh peppers, too many
naval oranges, and too many folks expecting presents on the 25th.

A nice big batch of "Dick's Spicy Xmas Marmalade™" could cut my "Christmas List"
by 25% in one afternoon!

Thank you so much for the idea! It's a GREAT one- I can feel it already! :hug:

leave a little room for expansion when it freezes, and stash them. Once they're juiced, it doesn't last long. SO good...

But our freezer is usually pretty full,
and Sweetie isn't a big fan of the OJ.

See my post above- I think I'm gonna make
some very special marmalade and distribute
it for Christmas presents.

if so please let me know because I am very hit and miss :o

I'm looking for tips because I LOVE oranges but they are pricey enough now where a few bad picks can piss me off!!!

Usually when it's orange season here, I can find them for 10 lbs for $1, but the cheapest I can find is 3 lbs. for $1 :(

for spittin' all them seeds into.

They were a genetic mutation way back when. So the only way to get new navel orange trees it to start one from a cutting. Thus, the trees of today are genetically similar to the first navel orange tree that was ever found.

Cool. And citrus-y!

mikey_the_rat