Summertime love is sweeter with...frozen mango?

Welcome to summertime in the USA. I don’t know about you, but from where I sit, it’s hot even in the shade at 9 am.That’s why my new breakfast obsession involves frozen fruit.First off, I love fruit. I try to eat it every day, not only because fruit is like nature’s candy, but also because it’s so good for you—All those vitamins and nutrients and phytochemicals that help prevent cancer.
If you’re like me and you love fruit, then you know how easy it is to go crazy purchasing fresh fruit at the grocery, only to have a whole bunch of it go bad before you get a chance to eat it. Worse is the dreaded bait-and-switch; you know those blackberries or raspberries you bought that looked ever-so-tasty—then you bit into one and got a mouth-full of T.A.R.T.? 
Well, I found such a simple and affordable way to eat lots and lots of delicious, perfectly ripe fruit. It’s always ripe and I never run out and it doesn’t go bad. Ha! Success!
Here’s my “recipe.” 
Buy a jumbo bag of frozen mango, and a jumbo bag of frozen mixed berries. In the morning after you wake, before you start the coffee and feed the dogs, pull out your blender and scoop a cup full of each fruit into it. Blend. Eat with spoon. Yum! For added protein, you can add one of the nut-milks (Coconut, Almond, Hemp).
Rinse, dry, repeat.
Speaking of fruit, in my contemporary romance LOVER'S LEAP (which happens to be a MAGGIES finalist in the 2016 Georgia Romance Writers contest for published authors!! Woot woot!!) my hero and heroine often find themselves sharing a delicious blend of fruits after enjoying…ahem…some extracurricular activity. Here’s a brief excerpt: 


Candace stood beside Logan at the kitchen island,washing and cutting fresh strawberries while he sliced amango. They both wore their bathrobes and nothingelse, having come straight from the shower wherethey’d worked up an appetite making love yet again.
Logan had turned on the stereo and the soft soundsof jazz filled the air. It all felt very…domestic. Andperfect. By rights, Candace should be scared. Sheshould be building a wall to barricade her heart againstLogan’s barrage of tenderness, charm, and sex appeal.
But that was the old her. “
Wonder what’s going through that pretty head ofyours,” Logan said, cutting into her thoughts.
Startled, Candace nearly nipped her thumb with theknife.
“Hey, be careful there, will you? I like yourfingers.”
“I like them, too.” She wiggled them in front of herface to make sure she hadn’t nicked herself. “I’d saythat’s enough strawberries, wouldn’t you?” Candaceeffectively sidestepped Logan’s comment about hertrain of thought. She rinsed the paring knife in theisland sink and popped a strawberry into her mouth.
“Why don’t you sit down? I’ll finish this.” Loganscraped the mango slices into a bowl and washed thecutting board as Candace moved to sit at the islandcounter. “We need to talk,” Logan said, not meetingCandace’s eyes.
Here it came. The thanks for a good time, now Ihave to go speech. She could take it.


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