Ways with watermelons..

Good Morning Friends. I trust that you all had a wonderful weekend and that Monday is full a spark and positive vibes. I am joining On the Menu Monday over at Stone Gable. Yvonne has a wonderful blog with amazing photography, so do take a look and also visit the other links.


I do realize that it is totally bizarre to start a recipe with which platter or bowl to use... but alas it is the kind of madness that I am given over to in the wee hours of the night when sleep eludes me and my thoughts drift to food. So my favourite bowl  for this salad is a large white platter embossed with fruit on the edges that shows off the colours to perfection. Now, you can just imagine how it looks, with these amazing colours against the white platter, all fresh and gorgeous, red, black and white with a sprinkling of green and a touch of pink onion.... sorry... um use any platter that takes your fancy...When summer rolls around and I make it you will see the bowl.

This is as an improbable combination of ingredients as you can muster to put together! But it works and works exceptionally well. It is both refreshing and compellingly beautiful in the contrast of shape and colour. That, and it hardly amounts to any work at all, that is if you are able to recruit your spouse to "slaughter" the watermelon...

Besides, think of the fun, you are going to have in the watermelon fight smearing each other and then the whole sorry lot landing in the pool... um whose cleaning the pool?

Menu

Sticky Pork Ribs on the BBQ

Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad

Watermelon fight and....A dip in the Pool

Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad

1 small red onion
2-4 limes, depending on juiciness
1,5 kg sweet ripe, watermelon
250 g feta cheese
bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
bunch fresh mint, chopped
3-4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
100 g pitted black olives
black pepper

Peel and halve the red onion and cut into very fine half-moons and put in a small bowl to steep with the lime juice, to bring out the transparent pinkness in the onions and diminish their rasp.

Remove the rind and pips from the watermelon, and cut into bite size chunks, triangles or cubes. Place in your favourites bowl...

Cut the feta in similar size pieces and place in between the watermelon.

Tear of sprigs of parsley and add more like a salad leaf than a garnish to the salad.

Add the chopped mint.

Tip the now glowingly puce onions, along with their pink juices over the salad in the bowl, add the oil and olives, then using your hands toss the salad very gently so that the feta and melon do not loose their shape.

Add a good grinding of black pepper and taste to see whether it needs more lime juice.

The above image and recipe comes from one of my favourite cookbooks by Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer.

Click here for instructions to make these gorgeous little artful bites of bliss.

I found these lovely ideas via Geek Mom. If you feel like unleashing your inner slumbering sculptor or you have exceptional knife skills!! ( but keep the phone handy and the emergency numbers, please) take a look....

For much more inspiration of what to do with your crop of watermelon,  click here for The National Watermelon Promotion Board ( did you know that such a thing existed?) where the possibilities seems to be endless...

So, for those of you who are enjoying the balmy days of  a summer, break out the watermelon and the knives and have some fun.



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Bon Appetit


Live well


Veronica

xxx

images from pinterest other than indicated.