Fruit with meat or poultry isn’t that rare. I’ve had it with Middle Eastern and French food and what would Thanksgiving turkey be without cranberry sauce? Kumquats are indeed an interesting idea — thanks for the link! I’ll check your shabu shabu too (and now that I think of it, I have a recipe here for pork with blood oranges which is amazingly good.)

There are a couple of cold shabu shabu recipes (which can be made ahead) on my blog which combine fruit, vegetables, and meat. I was skeptical about how good they’d be but pork with grapefruit segments and beef with papaya are great

Here is a Finnish woman using kumquats in a tossed salad, which are really fine in the winter when tomatoes are so bad:
http://appelsiinejahunajaa.blogspot.com/2009/04/kumkvateista-ja-salaatista.html
She commented on my blog back in April so I checked out her site and she was posting about this interesting idea.
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