CARA CARA ORANGES
My favorite oranges are of the Cara Cara variety. These navels are a limb sport (natural variant) that showed up on a Washington navel tree in Venezuela. The stock was imported to the US in 1977 and within the past few years Cara Caras have become available in enough quantity that they are finally being marketed here.

Cara Cara oranges are generally sweet and flavorful -- the flesh looking and tasting a bit like a Ruby Red grapefruit -- but without the acid.

Someone brought a bag of Cara Caras for our after-worship snacks last Sunday. Good call!

I have a young dwarf stock Cara Cara in our backyard and it fruited for the first time this year. But the three oranges I got were small and not really sweet -- still too young. So I found a bag at Costco. They're a bit more expensive than the more common navels but it's worth picking some up as a treat. If your store doesn't carry them I'm guessing that they will by either next year -- or the year after.