while grocery shopping my mom and I decided that we wanted to pick up some cantaloupe for a snack for either later that day or the next day.\u00a0 So my mom tasked me with the job of picking out a cantaloupe.\u00a0 She told my 3 year old to help me.\u00a0 Most of you may know that three year old’s have short attention spans and picking out cantaloupe probably not their strongest suit.\u00a0 She tapped it she smelled and and she decided that would be the cantaloupe that we got.\u00a0 After shopping for several hours (and it being past nap time) I was not going to argue with her.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately when we got home and cut up the cantaloupe we discovered that it looked good and had the right texture but it was extremely bland.\u00a0 I don’t know about you but for me in general I have a hard time picking out a ‘good’ cantaloupe and feel I should eat it even if it doesn’t have much flavor since I spent the money on it.<\/p>\n
We decided this time to see if there were any alternative ways to use the cantaloupe or ways to increase the flavor.\u00a0 We went to our favorite recipe site, www.allrecipes.com<\/a> I was amazed at all the different ways to use cantaloupe, from smoothies, to breads, to cakes.\u00a0 Who knew!\u00a0 I had always just enjoyed cantaloupe fresh and never really thought it needed to be used other ways.\u00a0 We decided to try two of the recipes (varying them slightly as we are never really ones to follow them exactly).<\/p>\n The first recipe that we tried was a cantaloupe smoothie<\/a>.\u00a0 We varied this up as we made it a cantaloupe\/banana smoothie.\u00a0 Some people may not like it if they aren’t a fan of bananas but we all thought it was very tasty.\u00a0 My daughter in particular gave it two thumbs up:).<\/p>\n The second recipe that we tried was cantaloupe bread<\/a>.\u00a0 It tasted more like cake to me but was extremely moist.\u00a0 My husband compared it to banana bread.\u00a0 If you didn’t know it was cantaloupe bread you would never even know there was cantaloupe in there as there was no cantaloupe flavor.<\/p>\n Both of these were extremely good methods to use cantaloupe that doesn’t have much flavor.\u00a0 Do you have other methods to use cantaloupe?\u00a0 I would love to hear about them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" while grocery shopping my mom and I decided that we wanted to pick up some cantaloupe for a snack for either later that day or the next day.\u00a0 So my mom tasked me with the job of picking out a … Continue reading