I had been telling myself to eat healthy lately so I bought a bunch of fruits and trying to figure out how to make eating them fun and pretty. I envisioned a fruit platter related to love and Valentine’s Day. This is how star + kiwi fruitti with fresh pomegranate juice came about.
Because Valentine’s is around the corner, my heart is all about love. This fruitti in Chinese is called 心心相印 (xin xin xiang yin), which means “you are my soul mate.” Star and heart have the same pronunciation (xin xin) in Chinese so starfruit here represents the heart.
To put this together, you only need to cup up a starfruit and a kiwi, processed 1/2 cup of pomegranate seeds with a few mint leaves into juice, and decorate with any flower you have from your garden or around the house.
Eating healthy could be pretty and delicious too. Do you agree?
Do you see two hearts dancing hand in hand?
a beautiful day 
Love the name! It’s so fitting for Valentine’s Day 🙂
Thanks! It was a play of words 🙂
My first visit to Florida many years ago before we moved here…we stopped at a fruit stand and the vendor tried to tell us that the star fruit was known as the sex fruit…of course we all giggled♥ Your photos are gorgeous as ever.
Lol…that’s hilarious! An interesting fact, indeed, which make it even more fitting for Valentine’s Day 🙂
Wonderful post and photos!
Thanks, Scott, always so supportive!
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xie xie!
Beautiful arrangement and photos – proof that food can be both gorgeous and delicious!
Thanks, Lesley! It’s so refreshing to have this as breakfast, and looking at it make me fall in love again 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy New Year. Are you going to post pictures from your New Year’s meal?
Happy Snake Year to you!!! I will try to post some pictures from my new year’s eve dinner. How was yours?
My wife is taking the kids to NY next week to celebrate with her family. We had some nice Japanese food on New Years Eve. My wife was too exhausted to cook the traditional Chinese meal. Would love to see your spread. Wishing you a peaceful and joyous Year of the Snake. {{{Hugs}}} Kozo
Nice! CNY is all about being with family and eating and laughing. Chinese New Year was my favorite holiday when I was young (when I was still able to collect red envelopes and dressed up and played fireworks). I have a small family (just 7 of us, including a 1-month old baby) so my dad and I made a few dishes but pretty expensive dishes (will post later).
Hope you had a great one with the family. Wish you a prosperous and healthy snake year!!! And of course, more and more followers! 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Thank you so much for such wonderful photos.
Thank you!!! It’s very nice of you to come back often to my blog.
I am just saying hi. Big blizzard here in Massachusetts; it is a lovely blanket of snow. I like the fries photos. Sorry, I am not a kiwi fan. Be well!
I heard and saw pics! It’s quite scary. Hope things are back to normal by now. Snow looks really powdery though. Snowboard right in the driveway 🙂
Irene, so beautiful!
Thanks, as always!
A very cool dish! 🙂
Thank you!
You’ve made usual fruit become very pretty and colorful, I really enjoy reading your blog :).
Hi Cherry!
Thanks for the kind compliment. I love fruits and their colors. Making them look pretty is part of making the eating fun 🙂
Cheers,
Irene
i love the art in it,looks like u had fun making it.i didnt know we had kiwi fruit in my country till last weekend.I was so surprized.its a nice fruit,i love it.
I did have fun arranging it. This was the most stressed-free quickie type of breakfast I would want every morning 🙂