Really, We've Seen Enough Now

Since there is no real progress on the house to report, and the kids and adults of the household are all well and fine, I thought I would dazzle you with another of my food posts.

Oh the excitement. I can feel how thrilled you are to read that!

In an effort to try new things, I picked up a couple of pepper squash the other day, to have with supper. Right on the label for said squash I found some simple instructions for cooking it that sounded appetizing enough:

"Cut in half, scoop out seeds, fill with brown sugar and butter, bake until tender"

Well, ok, they were a little more detailed than that, but you get the idea.

I present to you now, a photo series about the squash. I know, there is no end to my coolness.









They certainly looked delicious. Sadly, that's about the best part of the story. Jay and I each had a half, and the more of it one ate, the worse it seemed to taste. Perhaps because once you get beyond the part that is saturated in butter and sugar, it just tastes like...squash.

Not our favorite thing, by any means, but it was good to try it at any rate. Squash is cheap so I didn't feel especially bad about not liking it.

Unlike the dragon fruit.

Lincoln had picked out this bright pink, fabulous looking fruit on a trip to the grocery store. I've had it before, and it's really not the tastiest thing in the world, but it's not terrible either. It tastes very much like a really mild melon. Think honeydew, but with next to no flavour. I had a feeling the children would not like it one bit, but I did say they could pick out whatever they wanted.

Since no food post is complete without photos, here we go.







After cutting it up, I was not the least bit surprised that both kids rejected it with horror after their first taste. Since I didn't want to waste it, nor did I want to eat the whole thing myself, I decided to attempt to salvage the fruit and make it more appealing to the minions.

Since even squash tastes good with butter and brown sugar, I decided to try that with the dragon fruit. I mean, it couldn't possibly taste any more boring.



After caramelizing it in a pan with the butter and sugar, the kids were more than happy to eat the remaining fruit, so at least it wasn't wasted.

On our last grocery store tour Sydnie got her starfruit and Lincoln wanted some of those really miniature bananas, so I'll inflict those experiences on you sometime in the near future.