And they told me to eat my fruits and vegetables...ha...

Sometimes I think that I should just quit school and become some sort of houseperson. (I can't be a housewife as I'm not married. Thus houseperson.) I think this because any time that I've had free time in the last few days, I've been cooking or baking, and I've felt very accomplished. Then I remember that I like playing oboe just as much as I like to cook. On Wednesday, I made tomato sauce. It turned out pretty well, although now it's sitting in the fridge until I make pasta to go with it. On Thursday, I ate leftover chicken. Uh...not so exciting. Moving on. On Friday, I baked oatmeal honey bread and ate it with butter and jam, and subsequently tried to feed it to anyone who came to visit. Today, I made bruschetta, and it was one of the best and easiest meals that I've made yet. And it was healthy!!






And - the best part - it made me eat chunks of raw tomato for the first time in my life! There are a lot of very normal fruits and vegetables that I've never tried. Let me come up with a list:

-peaches
-plums
-mangos
-cherries (I half-tasted one once, but I don't count that)
-apricots
-grapefruit
-lemon
-lime
-pineapple
-beets
-rhubarb (not even in pie)
-sweet potatoes (except for sweet potato fries)

Up until this summer, I had never eaten kiwis, oranges, avocados, artichokes, tomatoes, or grapes, so I feel that I'm slowly making some progress. As it turns out, I like tomatoes, artichokes, and avocados, so clearly I'm missing out on all the rest. Maybe trying everything will cure me of my dislike of fruit.