There are some fruits and vegetables I always buy when I see them at the grocery store or market, even if I have plenty of other food to eat and no plan for what to do with them when I get home. Some are relatively rare in the grocery stores I frequent: fresh figs, fresh dates, fresh pinto beans, sunchokes. Others are seasonably predictable: pomegranates, Meyer lemons, blood oranges. And others are just inexplicably hard to find consistently: ripe (red) chiles.
I haven't seen Meyer lemons at the store this year, but I did find blood oranges, which are in season through April.
My love of blood oranges is, admittedly, purely aesthetic. I am drawn to their striking red flesh and the drama it adds to any dish.
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