Pumpkin soup with bell-shaped pasta and vegetable “croutons” in the thermos container; mixed fruit in silicone muffin cups (for easier removal because I’ll use the container as soup bowl) in the bowl container.
Part 1 of my bento includes pumpkin soup that I had frozen last time I made soup and rewarmed for dinner. It’s poured over bell-shaped pasta and veggie croutons, and decorated with some pasta, thai basil and bicolored bellpepper.
Veggie “croutons”. Mmm, I should make Gazpacho some day…
Part 2 has me buying some unknown fruit in a frenzy of curiosity and immediately rueing it – I should have listened to great teacher Baloo!
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don’t pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw!
Why oh why didn’t I listen to Baloo, I exclaimed as I set forth with a sterilized needle and tweezers to remove thousands of tiny, invisible pricks from my palms after cutting unknown fruit – which I should have been careful of since the packet did say cactus pear!
Seriously, the thorns on that one feel like the fiberwool you use for isolation – tiny, glassy fibers that are absolutely invisible, break if you try to pull them out and bury into your skin perfectly anyway. And trying to wash them off makes it worse…! :(
The fruit itself is fun though – the flesh tastes like a mixture of banana and orange, maybe with some apple in it. It has a lot of small, hard seeds in it which make me wonder how to properly eat it though – they get in the way! Pulp it through a sieve? Spit cores like when eating a watermelon? I have 5 more! Heeelp!
Luckily all the other fruit gave less resistance – banana slices with chocolate sauce, grapes, and physalis are all friendly, well-known fruit. (but beware, I hear there are feral banana trees out there in the jungle that would eat you as soon as look at you!)
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