This is a Jackfruit. A what? A Jackfruit. Oh, a Jackfruit. (Shout out to Tom Patton). This bad boy grows on trees and is ginormous. Apparently you are supposed to harvest it when it is small, but we didn't know that. I guess the people in the markets don't know that either because they sell huge Jackfruits. Anyway, after hacking at it for ten minutes with a dull chopping knife, Davida and I managed to get it off of the tree in the yard. We then took the sticky beast into the kitchen where it took us another hour or so to open the darn thing, extract a small bit of the edible flesh, and then sautée it with garlic and onions. It ended up tastinglike a potato and, I have to say, was good but not worth the effort. See the goo? See it? That white marshmallow looking substance is as sticky as chewing gum and more imossible to get off. Yes. This is the Jackfruit's natural defense mechanism agains idiots like me. I ended up rubbing canola oil on our knife and hands and cutting boards to release the stickyness and then washed it in a heavty bath of dishsoap.
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