Clementines

I had my first clementine of the winter season, and it was delicious. I love that I can eat a sweet and delicious clementine or pretty much any other fruit on a cold winter day. Some people like hot chocolate, but I prefer a nice piece of fruit. It doesn't quite warm my body like something hot, but it gets me thinking about where this fruit came from and what the climate is like there. I just got a craving for a huge fruit salad with all sorts of melons, berries, kiwis, mangos, etc. I've also developed an affinity for cutting the peel off of fruit; I think it's called paring, at least that's the kind of knife you can use. My senior year of college, I had one of those knives that I loved to use. I remember cutting the rind off of my honeydew and cantaloupe with a butter knife with near-surgical precision. I also used to prepare kiwis for my roommate, Devin. We took a trip to BJ's Wholesale, and Devin purchased a box of kiwis. I just remembered that I have a bunch of frozen mango in the freezer, so I could maybe make a smoothie or something tomorrow. Making it now might wake up my family.