sweet 'n' savory TWO

Papaya Cream (Creme de Papaya)

This is a common Brazilian dessert made with simple ingredients - creamy, tasty, pretty .... and healthy too!  What more can you want? :)

Ingredients:

• Papaya, medium, 1, peeled, seeded and cubed
• Vanilla ice cream, 1 cup (more or less to your taste)
• Creme de Cassis liqueur, 1 oz (optional)

Instructions:

1. Add all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

Notes: If substituted ice cream with 2 cups of milk and sugar, the end result will be tasty papaya smoothie - a very popular drink in Taiwan.

Jarritos Tamarindo

Unlike most fruit-flavored sodas that are at most sugary water with artificial fruit flavor, the tamarind soda by Jarritos has just the right amount of tanginess to its flavor without being overly sweet - it has a surprisingly bright tamarind flavor which makes it more like carbonated tamarind juice than tamarind-flavored soda.  My new favorite soft drink?  Jarritos Tamarindo it is!