It's still citrus season at the Moorpark Farmers Market!
Winter season typically signals the arrival of oranges, lemons and grapefruits. We are well into late spring but these delectable fruits are still in abundance.
Moorpark Patch found blood oranges, a popular orange variety, at the stall of All Green Farms. The seedless navel oranges and the sweet cara cara oranges were also available.
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These oranges make wonderful additions or toppings to salads, cereals, yoghurt, pancakes, waffles, grilled meat or poultry.
Three varieties of grapefruit were also available: oro blanco, red and pomelo, with the pomelos or Chinese grapefruit outnumbering the other two.
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The tangerine varieties: clementines, tangelos and mandarins, were also plentiful at the stall of the San Bernardino-based grower.
Smaller than oranges and easier to peel, clementines are marketed in the US as “cuties.”
Another hybrid, the tangelos are a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine and known for their juicy and mildly sweet flavor.
More complex and sweeter than the first two varieties were the mandarins. Both the tangelos and mandarins lend an exotic flavor to salads, desserts and entrees.
With oranges, grapefruits and tangerines around, can lemons be that far behind?
For $2-$3 a pound, market-goers had a choice between the Meyer and Lisbon lemons. Meyers are sweeter, less acidic and more fragrant. Lisbons are generally more sour than Meyers.
The Moorpark Farmers Market, located at 742 W. Los Angeles Ave. (by Staples), is open from 3 to 7 p.m. on Fridays.
