Canteloup & Lime

I love fruit first thing in the morning. It's been my ritual for 10 years. It's always the first thing I put in my mouth. I'm unable of putting anything dry or flaky or toast-like or cereal-ish into my mouth until I've eaten fruit and drunk some tea or coffee.

My fruit habits are pretty seasonal. All winter I consume citrus fruits because they are at their prime juiciness and because I got spoiled growing up with grandparents who were snow-birds and sent us boxes of Indian River pink grapefruits for Christmas each year. About this time of year when the skin on oranges and grapefruits starts to thicken and pull away from the flesh and the interior becomes mealy and light coloured I tend to veer towards melons. I'm in the nascent of melon eating right now and it's a beautiful thing. This morning I split open a large firm sweet smelling canteloup, cut out its seeds, and then pared it into wedges that then became square bite size pieces that I put into a tupperware and seasoned with fresh lime juice. Kiwis sometimes make the cut too. Then I'll start into honeydews before they get too ripe and saturated in their own juice. Then suddenly it's berry season - strawberries and blueberries and slices of just ripened still tart mango. And then before you know it I'm eating grapefruit again as the sky darkens and winter arrives. But hey, I'm getting ahead of myself. Melon. Spring. We're nearly there.

Comments

[Carrie]

I didn't know citrus is better in the winter months. That's good to know. Oranges are my absolute FAV fruit but it is so hard to figure out which ones are good since they all look like they're good. I'm craving oranges and cantelope now, thanks. LOL.

[canteloup patricia]

soy patricia canteloup de buenos aires argentina y quisiera comunicarme conuds. porque estoy averiguando sobre mi apellido y seria muy importante para mi comunicarme con algun canteloup