![]() It still looked like a cantaloupe when I cut it in half and scooped out the seeds:Īnd it still looked like a cantaloupe when I chopped it up further:Īs for the taste, well, the crenshaw is not all that different from a cantaloupe in flavor and texture. I had no idea what to expect when I cut the crenshaw open, and I didn’t bother looking around online first, as that would take all the surprise out of it, but I treated the crenshaw like a cantaloupe, and first cut both ends off of it, and cut down the sides, removing all of the rind: This crenshaw was a heavy mofo! In the spirit of my fun weight loss comparison posts, I’ve lost 28 crenshaws! ![]() I haven’t been paying attention to the weight of the cantaloupes I’ve been buying recently, but I don’t think I’ve bought a cantaloupe that weighed more than 3 or 4 pounds, tops. It seemed much denser than either a cantaloupe or a honeydew, and the scale at the register weighed that sucker at 5.8 pounds. If it doesn’t give, and it’s just as hard as the rest of the melon, then either pick another melon, or buy it and leave it on your counter for a couple days before you dig in.Īfter finding a ripe crenshaw, what I noticed next was how heavy it was. If the melon ‘gives’ a little bit when you press the flower end, it’s ripe. How I learned to tell if a melon is ripe or not is to press the flower end of the melon – which is the end opposite the stem end, where the melon was attached to the vine. I assumed I could tell if a crenshaw is ripe by using the same trick I use on cantaloupes and honeydews, and I found one that seemed pretty ripe. It was about the same size as a honeydew, but the stem end tapered and has more of a teardrop shape, as you can see in the picture above. ![]() Here’s the entire crenshaw I ended up buying: I knew I wanted to bring melon on the picnic, and the cantaloupes at Whole Foods weren’t anywhere as ripe as I needed them to be, and I knew one of the picnic attendees doesn’t care for watermelon, so… conveniently right next to the watermelons and cantaloupes were the crenshaws. But there it was, in the melon section at Whole Foods on Saturday, waiting for me. ![]() I had never heard of crenshaw melon before, and had certainly never tried it. Then I teased that the item on the right isn’t cantaloupe, which is information I didn’t even tell the other picnic attendees (well, I told Heather and John hours and hours later, but Jen and Dave are still in the dark). In addition to the sandwich, I also showed the other food I brought along for the picnic – vegetables and hummus, and two containers of fruit: one of which contained strawberries and blackberries, and one of which contained… This post is basically an extension of yesterday’s post, which was about a giant killer sandwich ( ‘killer’ as in ‘amazing’, not ‘killer’ as in ‘one who murders’) that I made for a weekend picnic. ![]()
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