Chirimoyas

Chirimoyas are a fruit native to Peru, and commonly grown in the valleys around my site. Usually they're about the size of a mango, with a green dinosaur-scales-looking exterior and soft white fruitiness inside - so soft in fact, that to open a chirimoya you just pull it apart with your hands, no knife needed! It's currently chirimoya season, so our Sunday market has been chock full of them. But Javi, not to be outdone, brought home some of his own chirimoyas from the farm… annnnd they are almost the size of my head, pretty much the biggest I've ever seen!