Lick the produce: What nice melons you have!

Every month I eat fruits and vegetables that I’ve never tried before. Well, I did eat new fruits and vegetables every month until I ate my way through the Kroger produce section. I’ve been on the lookout for exotic fruits or oddly colored vegetables, but it’s taken me four months to collect three new items. Never fear, though! I recently located an international supermarket that sells such oddities as corn and cheese flavored ice cream from Asia. They have all sorts of scary, prickly, fruits and vegetables that I can try or die trying (hopefully they don’t have any poisonous bits). Until then, here are my three latest discoveries from Kroger and Trader Joe’s.

Casaba Melon

The casaba melon looks like a yellow pumpkin in this picture, mostly because I have a crappy camera. All the food bloggers at BlogHer had fancy schmancy cameras that would make this casaba melon look so tasty you would leave rainbow colored drops of saliva on your computer screen. I have a point and shoot camera and little interest in digital [...]

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