Hey everyone! Today I wanted to do a lighthearted post featuring the unusual fruit salad I made for lunch with produce from an awesome grocery store, Berkeley Bowl. I'm something of a weirdo myself so it only fits that my culinary choices would be a bit, well—unusual—as well. ;)

My delicious fruit salad includes: Dragonfruit, Kadota Figs, Pepino Dulce, Horned Melon, Cotton Candy Grapes, Royal Star Papaya, Ichiban Nashi Asian Pear, Blackberries, and Strawberries!

Most of the produce was organic and non-GMO as an added bonus. The ingredients all together cost $25, which was definitely cheaper than I anticipated given how heavy my basket was.

Enjoy vicariously through my pictures!

I felt joyously crazy when artfully plating this fruit just for Steemit

Non-GMO Cotton Candy Grapes! They ACTUALLY taste like cotton candy. Mind. Blown.

Dragonfruit

Scooping out the dragonfruit

Dragonfruit, despite its gorgeous appearance, tastes unexpectedly bland; I learned from a friend several years ago that the trick to making dragonfruit taste delicious is adding a squeeze of lime!

Huge, juicy blackberries! Lime for size comparison

Honeydew melon-flavored Pepino Dulce

Pepino Dulce is a fruit in the nightshade family that tastes a bit like honeydew melon and has a smooth texture. It's one of my favorite fruits—when I can track it down, that is.

Sour tasting Horned Melon

Horned Melon, also known as Kiwano, is pretty tart and pulpy with sunflower seed-sized, edible seeds. The texture reminds me a bit of passionfruit but is even less sweet. You can see the green flesh inside the fruit in the very first picture.

Green skinned, tender Kadota Figs

Finally, after chopping and peeling the medley of bizarre produce I was free to enjoy the fruits of my labor, so to speak.

Ta da! The final, mouth-watering result

My fruit salad turned out to be a delicious, mid-day snack with the perfect combination of flavors and textures.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully you'll feel inspired to try out new and unusual fruit the next time you're checking out the produce section of a grocery store or your local Farmers' Market.

Cheers!

This eotic fruit salad will bring you to a heaven.

Cotton candy grapes are my favorite. Wish I got to eat them more often.

Hehe same, good thing the season is coming up!

Gotta love fruit salad! ;)

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Awesome, thanks for highlighting my piece! Hope someone else out there enjoys making this fruit salad.

I love fruit salad. I must try dragon fruit. I'd never even heard it before. You mention it is quite bland but does it have any particular features that make it more than just a curiosity?

Me too, especially during the summer! Definitely try dragonfruit if you see it - you might have luck tracking it down at an Asian supermarket. The texture is really enticing, actually, because the little seeds are a bit crunchy with hints of sesame. Adding lime makes the fruit itself taste very floral. :)

OK cool. So it has a good texture. Will see if I can find it.

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Cotton Candy Flavored Grapes!? My Crazy, Exotic Fruit Salad

My delicious fruit salad includes: Dragonfruit, Kadota Figs, Pepino Dulce, Horned Melon, Cotton Candy Grapes, Royal Star Papaya, Ichiban Nashi Asian Pear, Blackberries, and Strawberries!

Dragonfruit, despite its gorgeous appearance, tastes unexpectedly bland; I learned from a friend several years ago that the trick to making dragonfruit taste delicious is adding a squeeze of lime!

Pepino Dulce is a fruit in the nightshade family that tastes a bit like honeydew melon and has a smooth texture. It's one of my favorite fruits—when I can track it down, that is.

Horned Melon, also known as Kiwano, is pretty tart and pulpy with sunflower seed-sized, edible seeds. The texture reminds me a bit of passionfruit but is even less sweet. You can see the green flesh inside the fruit in the very first picture.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully you'll feel inspired to try out new and unusual fruit the next time you're checking out the produce section of a grocery store or your local Farmers' Market.