Papaya

[fitfool]

To cheer me up, someone sent over a fruit basket with exotic fruits. Thanks for a delicious breakfast!

Yes I had to look online to learn how to eat a papaya. I've eaten it before, just never cut one up myself. I didn't know whether or not the seeds were edible. Didn't matter though, even after learning they're to be discarded, I tried one. Don't. It's not edible.

Slice the papaya in half, scoop out the seeds with a spoon and discard, then scoop out the fruity flesh with a spoon. The upside of looking up how to eat a papaya was that I saw one suggestion to sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice and that tasted good.

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Comments

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Looks so vibrant!

[cathrynapple.livejournal.com]

papaya is, officially, my fvaorite food. i used to have a papaya tree, even! yum.

[mforbes321.livejournal.com]

You have a very nice friend. :)

And I've always noticed this, you take incredibly good pictures.

[tedwords.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...looks yummy!

[snarkactual.livejournal.com]

As someone who grew up with a papaya tree in the back yard, The lemon juice helps to bring out the flavor. Also, if it gets a bit over-ripe you can use a banana nut bread recipe substituting the papaya for banana. It's quite good. Another thing you may want to try is star fruit (Carambola, Tsa gnim, Khe, Ma Feung). You eat the fleshy lobes (the core you throw out) it also makes pretty good juice and sun dried and salted it was good for sore throat relief.

I haven't had a good papaya (and that one looks good) in a coon's age.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

It´s such a beautiful yummy fruit. Are those blueberries?

Now I feel like running out to the corner grocery to see if they have any good ones there.
:)

[orangeslice.livejournal.com]

Make some smoothies! Mango, papaya, orange juice, raspberries, some yogurt or sherbet Mhmmmm

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, I just came across this recipe for Grapefruit Avocado Salad with Plum Mayo Dressing Recipe and thought it looked so scrumptious! I'm not sure how thrilled I am with avocados, but I might try them just for this recipe. I thought you might like it, too :)

[marqkay.livejournal.com]

hmmm...i've never had a papaya. i think i'll have to try one.