All Things Oranges

Maybe this should really be titled, "Most Things Oranges"... 😉

Let me tell you about my newest revelation regarding the orange...That is, the fruit which is the orange. 😂

First I should begin by explaining that it's only been rather recently that I realized just how much of an orange is edible. I'd been baking a delicious, very peanut buttery bread, where the recipe calls for a teaspoon of orange peel, since I was, well, I think around third or fourth grade when Dad found that recipe in a "home" magazine.

Mom & Dad would always just have a container of the "spice" "orange peel" in the cupboard along with their basil, cloves, parsley, etc., etc. Then I learned that, using one of these (or a fork, or something else that I've yet to learn about, I could utilize my own "fresh" orange peel, or zest (check this out) & not need that spice container from the grocery store aisle.

I'd always used one of these plastic gizmos, or, more recently in my not-bothering-to-keep-one-of-these-on-hand, just my fingers/fingertips has worked fine as well... And I would always peel the entire orange before I'd begin to consume it. I'd break it apart. Sometimes I'd have it in a dish. Sometimes I'd take it "on the go". Always after I'd peeled the entire thing.

Then I got into running these marathons. It didn't dawn on me at first. In fact, it took much longer than it likely should've. When I'd be grabbing along a marathon course for the orange slices, I'd be grabbing the fruit with it's portion of the peel still attached.

Most recently I noticed that a fellow runner did better than me when taking the fruit from a volunteer. He managed to catch his mouth along the edge of the fruit in such a way as to grab the whole of the fiber, & not just the juice & some/most of the pulp. This was impressive to me. I'd never considered being able to enjoy this totality of the orange.

And here I am the one peeling away all of the peel from the fruit all these many times & making a juicy, sticky mess of the whole thing...And if I weren't consuming it immediately, having it turn a little bit more messy since it'd be down to the juice & fiber of the fruit.

The way to go seems to definitely be just to take a knife to the whole orange, straight from its purchase, & cut it down as if it were a pizza. I mean, not to relate every other food to pizza...Just that pizza's get quartered, then "eighthed"; that's essentially what's happening in the cutting up of the whole orange...juice, fiber, peel...The whole thing.

Changing up to this way of managing an orange has been a life changer & saver since I began - just a few weeks ago. In doing so, I grab ahold of the tip top of the edge of the slice of orange & I'm able to grab the fiber & juice section away from the peel. Then I tear at it & pull it away; suddenly I've a slice of orange in my mouth & the juice is simply delicious! 😋

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