Nuts and Berries

In honor of Tu B'Shevat we went to the grocery store and bought fruits and nuts we didn't recognize (and a few old friends).
Here were some of the experiments:
1) Dried kiwi
2) The little ones are hazelnuts and
3) The big ones are dried longans
4) Dried lychees
5) Green olives (no image on this one - you'll just have to figure it out on your own)
6) Thinly sliced candied hawthorne
7) Papaya, hawthorne, and raisin muffin tops
8) Dried jujube
9) Dried candied jujube
10) Candied walnuts (Michael says yum)
11) Pistachio

It turns out that the longans (the things that look like smooth, round, nuts) are actually fruits. The thin outside rind hardens into a thin shell. These are dried longans so the moist fruit had shrunk around the inside pit. The skin could easily be cracked open against another longan and then we popped the shrunken flesh with pit in our mouths. The flesh came off pretty easily and we could spit the pits (which are almost fuzzy) out.