Comments on: Lychees…How I love thee.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:59:30 +0000

My favorite drink is a Lychee Martini! I buy canned lychees from a local Chinese grocery, which are delicious. I mix pear absolute vodka, juice from the canned lycees, 7 up and add a few lychees on a cocktail skewer…so good!

By: renee1306

renee1306 — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:03:40 +0000

My boyfriend spent a month in China when he was in college studying agriculture. When we came across lychees in the grocery store yesterday he went nuts! He went on and on about how they ate these all the time in China. I was suprised, as he is such a picky eater, he ate the whole bag we bought and only shared one with me!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:00:46 +0000

We had a cherry tree-lined driveway at our home on the coast of British Columbia, and blackberry bushes literally everywhere around town. I remember walking to the beach on warm summer days with an ice cream pail in my hand. We’d snack on blackberries the whole way there, then gather them on the way home for our ice cream. Other days my dad would go shake the cherry trees and we’d scurry around collecting them for whatever dessert my mom was whipping up that night. Then she would preserve the rest and we enjoyed them year-round. It’s no wonder that berry and stone fruit desserts are always my favourites.

By: Kathy Gori

Kathy Gori — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:27:38 +0000

I adore lychees, sadly I don’t seem to find them that often up here in Sonoma. It’s one thing I miss about LA, the fresh lychees.

By: Kelly at Crock Tease

Kelly at Crock Tease — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:05:35 +0000

Wish I knew where to buy fresh lychees. I’d love to make a compote. Wonder how they’d taste poached in sake?

(BTW, I’m a spanking new food blogger. I’d appreciate a quick visit if you have the time.)

-Kelly

By: katiek

katiek — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:00:20 +0000

When I was a kid we lived in Namibia and ate Lychees all the time. My family used to sit over the kitchen sink and compete for the biggest/smallest/strangest, etc seeds.

In high school I lived in India where my cook would give me big bowls of them at night when I got hungry.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:35:46 +0000

We’re stationed in Okinawa, and our first summer here I saw these strange fruits growing on a tree in my yard next to ascerola and shikwasa. After trying them I finally understood why I kept finding older Japanese ladies in my yard clearing my trees at 3am. Viva lychee!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:32:38 +0000

I had lychees for the first time a couple years ago while on vacation in Hawaii. We cannot get them at all where I live in Maine, unless I wanted to special order them canned in syrup. Guess I’m just going to have to schedule another trip to Kauai again! The Estate Coffee there is fabulous, too, if any of you ever get to go!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:08:27 +0000

I am from Nashville, TN and had never even heard of a lychee until I moved to Hawaii. One of my co-workers there grew them in her yard at home and brought in a bag full of them to work and shared them with me. I thought it was the strangest little fruit I had ever seen. As I peeled off the outer skin, I remarked that it looked just like a peeled grape. One of my many memories of living in paradise.

By: Gourmet Chick

Gourmet Chick — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:38:36 +0000

I am a big lychee fan as well – used to eat them a lot more when I lived in Australia though and they were more readily available.