Kumquats

[Gormy Cuss]

I buy kumquats once every year or so and prepare them by threading them on skewers with chicken and grilling and serving them with a berry/jalapeno salsa. That is the only recipe that I have for them other than marmalade/sweet dessert preparations.

I know that I can find other recipes via various recipe sites, but I'd prefer some suggestions from people here who know how to cook (and there are a lot of you!)

Anyone have a favorite kumquat preparation?

[Warpy]

1. Go to the source

http://www.kumquatgrowers.com/morerecipes.html

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Thanks for the link.

There aren't many suggestions outside of the dessert or chutney realm there, but Kumquat martinis have some appeal. That's a use that I hadn't considered.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Honestly?

I like them as they are. Just pop 'em in and chew 'em up.

[Warpy]

5. My mother gave me one of those things on a trip through Florida

I think I must've been about eight or so.

It was the nastiest, bitterest, ugliest thing I'd ever tasted.

It looked harmless enough, an orange, oval shaped thing, kind of like a small, weird orange.

Mouth fulla hell. Never again. Somebody else can have my share.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Geeeez Warpy .........

I just sprayed half mouth-melted creamsicle all over the damned monitor cuzza you! :)

Actually, while they *are* ..... uh .... tart ...... I like the 'bite' of them. They kinda have this nice, spongy 'crunch' to them.

Hard to describe, but I like it.

The only ones I eat now is the one I steal from the gourmet/GucciFood aisle of the Safeway on each trip. Well, I also snag a piece of candied ginger there, too. But that's another thread.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. That would explain the expression on the clown's face.

I like acidic food too. I'll try the straight up method.

[japple]

4. Grind them in a blender. Grind some fresh cranberries.

Add some sugar to taste. Serve as relish with turkey and trimmings.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Now that sounds tasty! n/t

[cmf]

9. My mom used to love kumquats

She loved them so much that she planted a kumquat tree in the back yard. She was the only one in the family who would eat them though. Now that she's gone, it makes me wistful thinking about that little kumquat tree in the backyard with all of that fruit going uneaten. :cry:

Anyway, she'd usually just eat them off the tree. It seems like she'd also make marmalade out of it, but I don't have a recipe. I'm sure you can find one on google, though.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. I like them but I know that a treeful would be wasted

They are pretty little fruit and l like the handy snack size.

[morningglory]

11. Any recipe that calls for oranges or limes or lemons would be great.

I do kumquat/cranberry relish during the holidays, and everyone thinks I am so kewl! I just use the orange/cranberry recipe off the cranberry bag. Throw a couple of sliced kumquats into a chicken gravy. Ever hear of duck a l'orange? Chicken a la kumquat, duck a la kumquat. I make kumquat marmalade. On and on. Just pick one off the bush when I go by. Edited to add that the Japanese horticulturalists have developed sweet kumquats. Man oh man! They developed limequats (eat the peeling along with the lime-tasting innards).

[Gormy Cuss]

12. Oh! Great idea!

I think I'll try Chinese strange flavor chicken with kumquats because it seems like a natural extension of your ideas. Thanks!

[wryter2000]

13. KUMQUATS!

"Sit down, Mr. Muckle, honey."

(Anyone get that reference? Sorry, but I couldn't resist.)

[Gormy Cuss]

14. It's A Gift (1934.)

No, I didn't get it, but it is one of those words that would provide fodder for a W.C. Fields bit!

[wryter2000]

15. Bingo

Fields is running a general store. Mr. Muckle, the blind man (obviously pre-PC days) comes in waving his cane over a pile of light bulbs. While Fields is trying to get him to sit down, another customer comes in and demands kumquats. As Fields tries to deal with Mr. Muckle (who he calls honey for some reason), the fellow at the counter continues shouting "KUMQUATS!"

Then, of course, there's "Karl LaFong. Capital-L, small-a, capital-F, small-o, small-n, small-g. LaFong. Karl LaFong."

And one of the greatest exchanges of all time.

Fields' wife: You're drunk!
Fields: You're ugly. Tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you'll still be ugly.

[eyesroll]

16. I went to a party at Random KoolZip's house a few years ago and he

had kumquats paired with chocolate, and, if I'm remembering correctly, Nutella.

That actually sounds good -- Carr's biscuit, nutella, sliced kumquats.