Fruit n Nut - 10:17 am

09 Mar 2010

I am a vegetarian so I have always had quite an appreciation for nuts. You will not find me making a nut-loaf for christmas or anything that extreme but I have been known to sit and eat pistachio nuts till my lips get all wrinkled from the salt. Unlike cabbage, nuts are amazingly good for you AND they taste fantastic. So you can imagine the joy in finding myself here in Mozambique, the cashew nut country where you can buy cashew nuts on the side of the road by the packet full. Heaven.

Anyways, as much as I might like eating these nuts I only realised yesterday that I had never actually seen what a cashew nut looked like, at least not before it was roasted or salted or covered in pirri pirri.

So here it is folks, a cashew nut fruit and nut. The bizarre fruit on the bottom is actually delicious, the only thing I can think to compare it with is a sweeter, milky mango. It is an extremely juicy fruit that they actually use to make a type of beer out of as it ferments in just three short days. And finally that protected little nugget sitting on top of its giant orange cushion is the wonderful cashew nut, almost regal looking isnt it.

What I love about traveling is that as long as you open yourself up, you are going to see and hear and touch and taste something new every single day.

Leah B

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