Nectarines and peaches.

I bought some ready to eat peaches. Whilst they are ready to eat, they don't have much flavour.

My nectarines were still not soft today so made a cobbler, it is delicious!
www.myrecipes.com/recipe/easy-peach-cobbler

suedonim, mmmm.... ?

I just leave them on a plate on the kitchen table. Those nectarines I bought on Monday were ready to eat on Wednesday . Only one left now.

CoolGran65 If you want sweet, juicy oranges look out for Tarocco - they're Sicilian and come on the market here in Italy from late February. They are large with a thick skin (like Jaffas) but they peel easily and the segments divide cleanly. There are often deep read flecks in them, like a blood orange.

I assume they're sent also to the UK. They're becoming increasingly hard to find here on the home market as they are mostly produced for export.

The Spanish tried to grow them but without success as apparently they need the strong contrasts between day and night temperatures that they get in Sicily but which are not possible in Spain.

Best oranges I ever ate in UK were when friends brought them back on the plane just picked in Spain. beautiful

coolgran65

you are joking? California is hot and sunny whereas we are damp and cold nearly all the time

sometimes I find putting fruit into a brown paper bag with an overripe banana helps
but the fruit is picked too soon. I don't buy so much of it anymore

I gave up with supermarket fruit, except for bananas.
I buy ripe and ready to eat from M & S and can enjoy those.
And how hard is it to get a sweet orange. Last year in California every orange was a delight.. Why can't we have oranges like that.

Baggs try a peach/nectarine and strawberry cobbler! Fabulous.

Some fruits never ripen to a state where they are pleasant to eat, no matter how long you keep them.
My theory is that this happens if the harvesting was mis-timed - there is a fine line between picking early enough for them to 'ripen at home', and picking too soon, at a stage which means they can never ripen.

I suspect that weather/temperatures before harvesting also play a part - without enough days at the right temperature, some fruits will never be edible. The widely-fluctuating temperatures that are becoming increasingly frequent probably play havoc with fruit harvesting and ripening.

Peach or nectarine cobbler is the food of gods.

Specially with cream.

When in season I buy the donut ones, which ripen beautifully, but they only have a short season.

I love nectarines definitely a favourite fruit. I did have the same problem as you shysal a little while ago. I tend to buy them in Sainsburys, packed in 4s as described by Alima, usually they are lovely but these particular ones remained rock hard. Shame! because at their best they are gorgeous

I have given up buying nectarines in a punnet. As you say, they go from rock hard to rotten at the drop of a hat. Sainsbury’s (probably all supermarkets) do a pack of 4 ripe and ready nectarines for about £2. We do enjoy those.

Ime, they'll ripen and be edible for about 15 minutes in the middle of one night and then they'll start going rotten. I gave up with the ones I bought and put them into a crumble.