Unfortunate oranges

So I jumped the gun on citrus season and wound up with a bag of nasty navel oranges. Tough to peel and unpleasantly sour. I'll juice some of them for marinade. Any ideas for how to use up the rest?

Besides not buying oranges before December, how can one best avoid such fruit?

Sour oranges are often used in both Mexican and Thai cooking ... in my mind, you got a nice treat. I just brought home some unripe oranges picked from my parents' tree in California, and I'm just sad that they weren't green and unripe enough! I plan on using them to make mi krap.

Hi,

You could squeeze the juice and freeze to use later as the base for a marinade.

Make orange peel candy with the remaining shells.

Regards,

I'm wondering where these oranges came from.

The Florida crop is just becoming ripe. This years crop is very heavy with trucks being cut from 20 to 19 pallets of fruit. Sounds really good.

Tim

How about marmalade?

LAZ wrote:Besides not buying oranges before December, how can one best avoid such fruit?

An orange is a tree-ripening fruit, then once picked doesn't have lots of time before it degrades. Don't buy oranges that come from another continent. The only way I can guarantee an orange is going to be great is to buy one and try it before I buy a bunch more.

You can try using it to make orange muffins if you bake and have a great orange muffin recipe. I actually tried to do that over the weekend but the recipe I got was not a very good one at all. Left my batch dry and the muffins did not bake well. I was going to give another go this weekend with a different recipe.

Hi- I never buy any oranges until around the end of November. I really like the Clementine oranges, which come in a box. They were on sale at Jewel this week for $5.99 a five pound box. They are really easy to peel, and are usually sweet. Hope this helps, Nancy

The best thing to do is juice it to use as marinade. Oddly enough I have had good luck with the bag of oranges they sell at Aldis. They are dirt cheap and generally good. I would wait a few weeks to buy oranges though.

Has anyone seen any decent clementines priced reasonably? Caputo's had some for $9/box, which is the highest price I've ever seen.

Hi- Jewel had them for $5.99 a box this week, although the sale ended tonight, and Dominick's had them for $6.99. You should never have to pay $9 a box. Hope this helps, Nancy

Cogito wrote:Has anyone seen any decent clementines priced reasonably? Caputo's had some for $9/box, which is the highest price I've ever seen.

Trader Joe's had them last week, & probably still does - forget the exact price, but it wasn't anywhere near $9 a box.

ETA - according to my Dominick's flier they are on sale for $4.99 a box starting tomorrow (12/1).

We've gone through over 10 pounds of Satsuma mandarins (marked California mandarins) from the Niles Fresh Farms... so far, an incredible crop!

Hi- Sorry I am posting this so late, but I was in Whole Foods in South Evanston today, and they had a one day sale today on a five pound box of California mandarins for $4.99. I was tempted to buy a box, but I tried a sample they had out, and they were OK, but I have had better ones. For those people who love their 365 peanut butter, I noticed that they now carry a large jar of it for $5. The regular size jar is $2.99 which is cheap as far as natural peanut butter goes, although I forgot to check out Trader Joe's price when I was there a few weeks ago.

There is a smaller crop of peanuts this year because of the drought in Georgia this last summer, and peanut butter has gotten expensive. Hope this helps, Nancy