Let's play guess that fruit!

The fruit here is incredible, delicious and I can’t get enough.  I found out this past weekend that we get lots of our food from the weekend house/small farm my host uncle owns.  So I guess I know it's local and organic.  What we don't get from there we buy at the Supermercado Nacional.  My host mom was showing me a bunch of fruit she had bought at the store and I’ll admit I had a hard time identifying some of them.     

It is avocado season here so I’ve eating avocado during at least one meal every day.  Yum!  But the avocado’s here are not like the ones at home- they’re ten times better!  The ones we buy in the US are about the size of your fist, bumpy to touch and brown.  Here, they are like softball size bowling pins, smooth and green.  (Everything here is green).  They are delicious in a salad, spread on bread, in guacamole or, my favorite, eating plain. 

The other fruits I am a little less familiar with as I don’t eat them off my plate.  My host mom makes the BEST homemade fruit juices ever.  Seriously.  But the little green balls (they sort of remind me of pears) are guava and the big ‘ol orange and green fruit is papaya.