This past weekend I bought another bountiful basket and a tropical pack add on. It came complete with lettuce, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, bananas, oranges, coconut, nectarines, plantain, lemons, mangos, lychee, 2 pineapple, fresh ginger, mint leaves and vanilla beans. I got online and figured out what lychee was - interesting fruit. It is not very appealing to the eye but sweet. When frozen and then peeled, tastes a little like sorbet. I chopped some mint leaves and then soaked them in milk for a day. Then used the milk and some chopped chocolate to make mint chocolate chip milkshakes. Very, very tasty. I really nice subtle mint flavor. Every morning I have been making banana, strawberry, pineapple, lychee, nectarine, lemon smoothies. I never realized how a little lemon can change the taste of something. JR will enjoy the plantain and coconut. He has also told me how they use to take rind of pineapple and turn it into juice...so interesting to see how that goes. I had never had nectarines before, so the bountiful baskets have been good for me. The boys at times will even try a small bite. The tropical pack contained a note that listed everything in it and where it was from. The countries listed were Mexico, Ecuador, USA, Hawaii and Uganda. I need to figure out what to do with vanilla beans and I might try making a small batch of tomato sauce with the tomatoes.


Here is a random picture from a few weeks ago. The place where JB goes for daycare once a week (for socialization) took these and then made them into a card.