I'm practically an Eskimo, is that PC?

I know what you're saying... "Girl, you're whiter than a marshmallow!" I'm not trying to say that I look like an Eskimo or that I have the heartiness to withstand freezing temps . I did escape the brutal cold of Vermont to escape to the much warmer North Carolina (I LOVE IT!) I was referencing my resourcefulness. I went to NYC for a fun girls weekend and Mom and Dad surprised us with a goodie basket. Lots of fruit, crackers, cheese, chocolates etc.  Speaking of chocolate...

Side story: On our first night we were exhausted and got sucked into watching a Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta marathon on TLC. Mind you none of us have cable television (Emma doesn't even have a TV!) So hotel television is a treat and we all LOVE reality junk TV (we also caught up on Mob Wives, Emma does a killer Long Island accent which went well with Melissa's new smoker/raspy voice) We were too tired to venture out for dinner, Mom and Dad must have known/they know what we get like when we're Hangry and were trying to prevent a meltdown during the trip.  While we were tearing up the cheese twists, queso and the biggest grapes we'd ever seen in our lives, Heather cracked open the box'o chocolate. It didn't have a map and nobody wants to bite into a molasses chew or anything with mint. EWWW! We studied the chocolates intensely before making our choices. Eventually that became too much work. Thank goodness for Heather aka Official Chocolate taster. She literally took small nibbles of mystery chocolates and informed us of the contents. Why didn't we start doing this sooner? How does she stay so thin? Maybe it has to do with chocolate.... I'm stalking up on it just in case it's the new diet trend. Yet again I digress...

Back to being an Eskimo. In the massive fruit basket were grapefruit. MY FAVORITE! The girls didn't seem too interested. I think I"m the only one who likes them. I love grapefruit but I hate how much work they are to eat. It takes longer to prep them than  eating them. I wasn't going to let me go to waste so I packed them into my carry-on. It made for an extra heavy carry on but I didn't care... They're practically citrus gold. Once home I got home I dove into citrus prep. I zested the grapefruit along with some other citrus I had (oranges & meyer lemons) I then mixed all the zest with salt for a Citrus Salt recipe I saw on my favorite blog FoodinJars. Can't wait to sprinkle this stuff on everything. I then used my veggie peeler to zest the rest of the grapefruit and mixed it with some sprigs of mint for fun water (I'm trying to drink more water and less beer, it's been a challenge) and then finally segmented the fruit and juiced it for my breakfasts this week. 

I know you're still not getting the Eskimo reference. I used practically every bit I could out of those grapefruits because I love them, much like Eskimos use the whole animal, every little part can be used for something. I was feeling resourceful. I think sometimes as a society we are too wasteful. We are throwing away perfectly good things!