{"id":464,"date":"2014-05-06T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:26:44","slug":"bitter-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Melon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my 101 in 1001 goals was to get a new fruit or vegetable and make something with it. I decided to try an Asian bitter melon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-465\" alt=\"20140504_184049\" src=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184049.jpg\" width=\"761\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184049.jpg 761w, http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184049-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a>The inside was beautiful and reminded me of a pomegranate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-466\" alt=\"20140504_184123\" src=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184123.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184123.jpg 436w, http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_184123-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I scooped out the seeds, salted it, then washed the salt off (this is supposed to get rid of some of the bitterness), chopped it up, and made a stir fry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_190257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-467\" alt=\"20140504_190257\" src=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_190257.jpg\" width=\"456\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_190257.jpg 456w, http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504_190257-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not very pretty, but pretty yummy&#8230;except the bitter melon. I guess I&#8217;m not sure what I expected, but it was BITTER! Jared and I both gave it a good try and had a few bites before we picked the rest out of our meal and ate the rice, onions, cabbage, and fake chicken. Now we know we aren&#8217;t huge fans of bitter melon.<\/p>\n<p>We also finally made it to a library story time after a few failed attempts\/ story times that were not for the right age group. I&#8217;m getting into a few more bands, too, which is fun. It has been hard to make progress on some of the list now that Jonas is mobile!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my 101 in 1001 goals was to get a new fruit or vegetable and make something with it. I decided to try an Asian bitter melon. The inside was beautiful and reminded me of a pomegranate. I scooped &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=464\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}