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Breadfruit Fun

Hello, tender friends!

This is breadfruit that we brought home from Florida.

Anthony and I LOVE trying new foods. Variety is the spice of life, and we both geeked out when we discovered an international food store. We ate tons of squid, a humanely raised duck, and chocolates imported from Italy. We ended up bringing the breadfruit home because we ran out of time to try it while we were actually on vacation.

My take on it? I like it even though I couldn’t cook it quite the way I wanted. I wanted to bake it like bread, but the chunks were too small once Anthony finished cutting it up and moving the skin. But you can prepare it as a sweet bread with butter and honey or savory bread with butter and herbs.

I sauteed it for a little while in coconut oil, but it was soaking up so much coconut oil that I knew it was going to end up too fatty to eat. So I poured coconut milk into the saute pan and put the lid on.

Prepared this way, it ended up tasting like a cross between a coconut and a potato. It’s pretty starchy, so it’s definitely not keto, but the starches are slow release and gave me energy throughout the whole day. It also kept me very full.

Every new food feels like an adventure to me, and while I didn’t love the breadfruit as much as I loved the squid, I’m still grateful that I tried it.

Okay, that’s all for today, tender friends! Thank you for stopping by, and thank you for sharing!

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  1. Awakening Wonders

    I’m with you. Good food brings back the best vacation memories, and you were able to bring the actual food item back home! 💖💖💖

    1. Stacey

      Yes! I know that you have many extraordinary food memories of your own, Mary!

  2. Nancy Ruegg

    You’ve reminded me of an occasion years ago when we were dinner guests in the home of a Vietnamese family. The wife served a delicious dinner that included several courses, but the first course included soup with a whole squid nestled among the vegetables. The creature was small, meant to be eaten in one bite. I wasn’t sure I could manage just popping in my mouth such a tentacled thing so I tried to cut it with my spoon. They’re too rubbery for that. The hosts would surely be disappointed if I left it behind, so with all the courage I could muster, in went the squid. To my surprise and great relief, it tasted very much like shrimp! WHEW!!

    1. Stacey

      Oh Nancy, I’m so glad you got to enjoy the delight of squid! What a blessing to be able to enjoy authentic Vietnamese fare!