#71 - Get Donuts From 25 Different Donut Shops Update

Oh Krispy Kreme...you are not my favorite donuts by far, but you are still donuts and therefore you are still good :p Krispy Kreme is basically where I go when I'm really craving donuts. Sadly, there really aren't many donut shops around me at all. I have to make it a special trip to get donuts. Unless I want Krispy Kreme. We have one of those close to my mom's house. To me, Krispy Kreme tastes totally different from any other donut shop. But same premise...fried dough with sugar :p What I will give them is they have EXCELLENT frozen coffee!

Me and my mom were out shopping today so we picked up some donuts on the way home...two of those are hers and the other four are mine XD I LOVE their chocolate covered glazed crullers. Now those I will say they do a damn good job with. My mom took one of those and the other two are mine :p The other donut that was hers is the powdered jelly. That's my moms favorite donut wherever she goes. I also got a regular glazed because they were hot! And a raspberry filled glazed. Like I really need these calories :/

#88 - Experience 50 Different Fruits Update

The second fruit to "experience" was a peacharine! Yep, a cross of a peach and a nectarine. It looks just like a peach from the outside and sadly I forgot to take a picture of it from the outside :( I let it get really ripe before eating it because I like super sweet fruit. I peeled the skin off and cut it in half and this is what it looked like:

Didn't have the orange color of a peach! The fruit was much more on the whiter side and the pit was really big. It smelled delicious! I took out the pit and I'm drying it along with some seeds from the passion fruit the other day because you never know what I'll want to try growing some time in the future :p I chopped it up into some tiny pieces and here's what I got:

The verdict? Meh. Not too great and not something I'd buy again. I've found that hybridizing fruit normally doesn't result in anything too spectacular. A fruit normally tastes best when you let it just be itself. This fruit had a really bland taste to it actually and was somewhat mealy. Every now and then I'd have a bite that was good and juicy and perfectly ripe, but overall, not fantastic. But I didn't want to throw it all away, so I thought to myself...hmmm...how can I make this more palatable and delicious...and I turned it into this :p

I know that's not the most appetizing picture in the world, but let me tell you just how good that tasted! What you see up there is the peacharine mixed with a spoonful of nutella and a handfull of honey granola with dried mixed berries. Oh yes...now THAT was good :p If anyone can make something healthy UNhealthy, it's me :p I think you can add nutella and granola to anything and make it good :p

Excited to see what other fruits await me!

New Goal With The First Update!

So I discovered a new goal. I love fresh fruit. I always have...nothings more delicious than a fresh piece of fruit that's still juicy and delicious. But there are so many fruits that I still haven't even tasted! And then there are fruits that I've never truly tasted. The original goal was to try 50 new fruits. Then I thought...well maybe there aren't 50 fruits out there that I haven't tried :p I started thinking of all of the weird fruits I see at Whole Foods and thought surely there are 50 but I'm still not sure. But then I thought, there are different varieties of apples that I haven't tried, etc. Still...don't know if there are 50.

However, there are certainly plenty of fruits that I've had in one form or another, but haven't truly appreciate. Like raspberries. I'm sure I've eaten them on a cake or in something, but I've never sat down and intentionally eaten fresh raspberries. Same with figs...growing up in New Orleans, everyone has a fig tree, so I know what figs taste like..hell fig newtons! But I can't recall actually ever sitting down and EATING a fig....really appreciating it. Grapefruit. I say I hate it, but I don't ever recall actually eating grapefruit :p I have no memory of actually trying it.

So what I'm officially calling the goal is "Experience 50 different fruits". And that's what I'll do. Whether I've had it before or not, this goal will be about really experiencing and appreciating the fruit that I eat.

The first fruit that I tried is something that I really have NOT had before. I wanted to start with something that was a bit of a "different" fruit. Something I've never had before and didn't think I'd ever eat. And Whole Foods is good about carrying these strange fruits so I thought I'd try a weird froot! Here's a passion fruit!

The first thing I noticed about passion fruit is that it's super light! Seriously, it feels like it has absolutely nothing inside of it. It's about the weight of a ping pong ball. And the skin is dried and wrinkled and I read that that's how you tell it's ripe. It should be dimpled. You can smell from the outside that it smells like grapefruit. The way to eat it is to cut it in half. When you do that, it looks like this:

Doesn't look all that great, huh? It's a gooey mess of pulp, juice and seeds all inside of a leathery skin. I'm actually trying to dry the skins right now though I don't know how successful that will be because they're so cool looking and they look like they'd make neat little pinch bowls :p I'm guessing this won't be too successful of a thing :p Once you slice them, you spoon out the fruit and strain it through a sieve or mesh strainer to get the fruit and juice from the seeds:

There really isn't much fruit at all in a passion "fruit". It's more passion "juice". All the websites I went on said that passion "fruit" is best served over ice cream or in a drink, so it's really something you get juice from and maybe some pulp. This isn't a fruit that you eat, it's more something you either drink or use in a recipe. It's also not something I'll have often because they are EXPENSIVE and you get about a tablespoon of juice/pulp. It costs $2.99 for one fruit. Now that's whole foods so they may be cheaper elsewhere but probably not much. 

The verdict on the taste? It would probably be good drizzled over vanilla ice cream or in a drink but by itself it was too tart for me. But I wanted to taste it by itself. It has a citrus-y flavor to me...sort of orange meets pineapple and add the sourness of a lemon. But not AS sour as a lemon. I couldn't have eaten more than one because of the tartness of it, but I think mixed with something sweet, the tartness really would've been perfect.

But it was neat to have experienced this :D Next up: a peacharine! Yep, a mix between a peach and a nectarine :D