Lucy is quite entranced by real tools--the tape dispenser, the pencil sharpener, and, now, the knives. Occasionally I let her cut things with a paring knife. Very soft things, like bananas and oranges. (Confession: I tried to let her cut a baby carrot, and was white-knuckling it while she very carefully tried to muscle her way through the slices. Surprisingly, three-year-olds do not have the hand strength for vegetables. Who knew?).
So, if you're going to cut a bunch of fruit, what do you make? Fruit salad, of course. The first time we made some, I directed the recipe: your standard bananas, oranges, apples and frozen blueberries.
Today, Lucy took over. And decided that the salad really needed some frozen peas.
A few notes:
1. It makes sense, really. Frozen blueberries: small, round, frozen. Peas: small, round. Also frozen.
2. They look nice in the mix. Very rainbow.
3. Peas: they're a fruit, right? Or are they more of a seed?
4. Lucy happily ate the mix.
5. I gamely tried it. For a moment, I thought, "What if it's a good combination? Who knows?"
However:
6. Not a good combination. Whether they're a fruit or not, they should not be combined with very finely-chopped bananas. Ick.
So what's next? Edamame and mango? Green beans with pear?
2 comments:
I'm glad you tried the fruit salad with peas. I, too, was wondering if it just might work -- peas can be fairly sweet. And we all know fruit salad is often lacking in the strong, green part of the spectrum. Your wan melons will not cut it.
I still think edamame and mango just might work. And doing a Google search for those two ingredients shows I'm not alone. It's because mango goes well with salt, I think.
Also, peas? Totally not fruit. Seeds.
had a similar reaction--"why the heck not?"
But there is a reason.
Now pea-nuts, I could do.
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