My favorite section in the grocery store, is without a doubt the produce section. Thankfully our household is full of avid produce eaters. Occasionally we still have produce turn a little faster than we can eat it.
Like the papaya. I have never aquired a taste for papaya. Every couple years I buy one to make sure I'm still not a fan, and so far my tastes haven't changed.
My husband picked up a papaya at the grocery store on Sunday, and it's been sitting on the counter taunting me. Everytime I walk into the kitchen I'm confronted by the huge oblong shape of a papaya just waiting to meet it's destiny.
Today I finally gathered my moxy, and chopped that tropical fruit into small pieces, I threw half of it into the blender with a couple pears, a banana, a peach and a handful of frozen strawberries. A little fake milk to help it blend and voila! I made a smoothie. A smoothie that I had every intention of feeding to small children so I didn't have to drink it.
Except my conscience started bothering me. Apparently I had to try some to get Jiminy Cricket of my back.
Would you believe it, I really enjoyed the smoothie!
I think I drank half it!
So apparently all I needed was a lot of other flavors to help mask the taste, and I'm good to go.
Who knew?
I totally do that with mangoes. I hate mangoes...unless they're in a smoothie with something so I can't taste them. It's kind of like those refrigerated smoothies - I just don't want to know what's in them. The last time I thought one was delicious, I found out it had artichokes in it. And now I can't even look at it the same.
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