We eat as much fruit as possible—bananas with our breakfasts, and fresh berries when they are available. During the winter we favor kiwis (especially the succulent golden ones, in season) and citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruits. Nina won’t touch fruit of any kind (not even in jams or preserves or pies), but Pinta gobbles them up.
Yesterday, Santa Maria was readying a grapefruit for her (Santa Maria takes profound care when preparing a grapefruit—she peels it like an orange, separates each section, removes all the white pith, and makes a “soup” of the delicious interior), and Pinta went crazy for it (you would too; if you have the patience, try it this way).
When Pinta was finished eating, she asked for another. “Groupfreight,” she called it. Sweet.
Groupfreight! that is darling. My husband was telling me that my step son,John used to call spaghetti “basgetti”!
My step daughter,Laura wanted to only eat organic food when she was in her teens and one night at dinner she asked me if the dinner I cooked was “organtic”?
We used to play tennis, badminton in the summer months at a local park walking distance from our house. Laura used to like playing outdoor games and used to call it “badmitten”.
Gita
Gita,
Those are adorable anecdotes. Thanks for sharing them!
Best,
JD