Cantaloupe Bread

I apparently have a lot to say about our CSA. 🙂

One of the things I love about our CSA is there’s usually some kind of fruit. And in August we had two weeks with a cantaloupe.

First off, I didn’t realize you could even grow cantaloupes in Virginia. (Why? No idea. I just never thought about it.) But these cantaloupes…they were not like anything you’ve ever seen before. In fact, I called them cantaloupes of unusual size (COUSes). These things were, I kid you not, a foot in diameter. A. Foot. In. Diameter.

You have no idea how much cantaloupe that is. (Hint: more than four people can eat before it goes bad.)

And thus began the frantic search for cantaloupe recipes. I tried a granita. I tried a smoothie. Both were busts, honestly. (The granita wasn’t too bad if you used it for ice and poured a 7 Up on it. Then it was kind of like a Fresca.) (The smoothie was simply nasty. Yogurt and cantaloupe don’t go together.)

That was the first one. When the second one came I panicked. And I found a recipe for cantaloupe bread.

The one I used has a “praline” topping. And the bread itself has more sugar in it than seems normal. So the result was sweet and delicious. But whereas you feel kind of healthy when you eat a zucchini muffin, there is NOTHING healthy about cantaloupe bread. Bonus: it tastes nothing like cantaloupe. (It pretty much just tastes like sugar.)