Merry Christmas to me!

So I am not afraid to buy myself some gifts. Pretty much no one gets me anything I want, or if they do, I will soon want something else. I wanted some fruit processing equipment, but without any moving parts. Moving parts=bad. I was set on an apple corer because chopping up an absurd amount of apples is very time consuming. Then I saw the mango splitter and I just HAD to have it. Even though I was unsure of how effective it was going to be, I gave it a go anyway and it freaking rules. I got myself a citrus peeler, and grapefruit spoons too. Eating grapefruit with a regular spoon is rather messy, and I have been eating a lot of grapefruit recently because they have been really cheap. Then I saw the fruit hammock, it is adorable. I shoved some bananas in it, so it is now known as the banana hammock. It is suppposed to allow the fruit to ripen evenly, but I really don't care about that. I made out pretty well for myself!

Giant Papaya Alert!

This papaya was huge! I typically don't buy the big papayas as it seems as if there is a limited amount of taste per papaya, so the big ones kind of have less flavor. Whatever it could all be in my head. This one was so big that I couldn't turn away though. It was over 4 lbs. At $.99 a pound that is a $4 piece of fruit. I didn't think to put a dollar bill on the cutting board or anything but that is a 'serving spoon'. It is big. This thing had so many damn seeds it was amazing. Even chopped up into tiny bits it didn't fit into the plasticware stuff. This was one of the pieces of fruit I bought before I got sick, it was good though. Papaya is one of my favorite fruits.

From the ashes...

Well! Go figure a few weeks into my 'ok I'm going to 'blog' about fruits once a week' thing I fall ill. Not the 'oh I'm kind of queezy' feeling. It was all out gut war. I always like to keep about 10 extra pounds on me just in case it happens so I don't get too wiped out. I dropped 20 pounds in 5 days. Managed to only miss one day of work too, so I am happy about that. I was able to hold down one grapefruit, and one papaya for those 5 days. Couldn't even hold water for most of it.

Well the day before I got sick I went out and purchased my fruit for the week. I always like to browse the Mangos and they had some giant ones on sale for a $1 each. I had to buy every last one they had. Well I got sick and couldn't eat them, so they sat in the fridge... and sat. I cut into it and 'oh no! over ripe!' Well I knew it wasn't going to be that bad because I have had plenty of over ripe mangos. In fact, I was getting pretty excited! Usually I tear into my stash long before they get the chance to ripen too much, but it has happened. I like it a whole lot. Lots more tang. A bit more appley like texture, and it just bites at the sides of your tongue like a lemon. It is a trip, and I love it.

I included a picture of what an over ripe and delicious mango looks like. The two in the middle you can really see the color difference. The middle is still about perfect, its the outside (lighter color) that is over ripe and full of tangy zest! Also pictured is a Marmite sandwhich. Rotten mangos taste pretty bad, and it goes from over ripe to rotten pretty quick. Just a heads up.

These are the 10 apples (gala) consumed on the 23rd of this month. They were on the verge of going bad, and whats the best way to consume insane amounts of fruit? Juice them! They got tossed in the juicer and frothy apple deliciousness came out. There was a Braeburn in there somewhere too, and it kicked a smidge of tartness into one of the glasses. It was good. Didn't pack much a sugar punch, but I could feel it moving through my bowels, and it felt good! In the mood for a really satisfying bowel movement? I'd suggest juicing 10 apples, because the one I had was rapturous. TMI? Deal with it.

Beginnings!

I just plated a ridiculous amount of apples and pears then ate them. I took a picture of it, and noticed I had a picture of an already ridiculous amount of fruit on my camera. I've never set up or got a blog going. Figure I need to at least figure how it works. This blog is devoted to my love of fruit.