I've been craving fruit recently. My favorite fruit, kiwi (skin on, thank you), is too expensive to justify, and I'm dubious about buying nectarines in January... but cantaloupe is delicious and cheap. Queasy but famished after last night's poorly calculated booze-to-food ratio, I went through half a cantaloupe just this morning, in about two minutes.

(Some rejected fruits: Oranges, because that whole citrus scene is complicated and messy. Bananas are filling but uninteresting. Apples... I don't enjoy the sensation involved in biting into a whole apple. I rarely eat apples unless they're baked into something.)

There was a sale on blackberries as well, so tonight I finally got to make Alton Brown's blackberry grunt. Very easy, and delicious with vanilla ice cream.

When I was a kid, we used to pick the wild blackberries that grew in the woods across the street. As soon as I have my own yard, I will plant all sorts of craziness: you have no idea.