Delicious, refreshing lunch.

sefajane1

I forgot to post these photo's.

sefajane1

The first one is melon with lovely crisp peppery roket leaves. It was so good ☺️

The second one was was my dinner tonight; melon, cucumber, feta, black pepper and Ryvita crumbs sprinkled on top.

I also made it with fresh apricots, feta, mint and black pepper a few days ago but can't find the photo. I highly recommend using apricots if no melon available. It was another level of scrumptious 😁

acpgee

And so not to be wasteful, a jar pickled watermelon rinds. We ate this at a restaurant once that specialized in food of the American south.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/08/watermelon-rind-skin-pickle-recipe-waste-not-tom-hunt

sefajane1

acpgee wrote: »

And so not to be wasteful, a jar pickled watermelon rinds. We ate this at a restaurant once that specialized in food of the American south.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/08/watermelon-rind-skin-pickle-recipe-waste-not-tom-hunt

I eat them straight, just a bit of lemon juice and salt. Nothing edible gets wasted in this household 😂

nooboots

missysippy930 wrote: »

acpgee wrote: »

We're going to a restaurant tonight near the Turkish grocer so maybe I can get a whole watermelon instead of those silly little plastic packets of cut up watermelon sold in supermarkets in the UK. If not, I am going to try this with halved green seedless grapes and cubes of cucumber that I've got in the fridge. I need to use up that open packet of feta. Might need to buy mint too, because the plant on my window sill has been cut back pretty severely lately.

Don’t they sell whole watermelons in the UK routinely? That makes me sad. We have them in the US. Great big giant ones down to personal size ones a little bigger than an average size cantaloupe. The 4th of July is a huge watermelon picnic item here. I love this time of the year with the exotic melons tat are available. All the great fruits that are available actually. I bought a few pounds of Bing cherries yesterday on sale.Your recipes are amazing, thanks for posting them.

You can get whole watermelons here but personally I find them awkward for storing in the fridge and difficult to maneuver around the worktop when cutting up

acpgee

To get whole large watermelons in central London I need to trek to the Turkish supermarket that sells them whole, halved and quartered. But one of my local supermarkets stocks the whole mini watermelons which are seedless and the size of a cantaloupe. Nice not to have to consume all the single use plastics sold with precut watermelon cubes.

sefajane1

I picked up (yes, I struggled!) a 12.5 kilo watermelon today at the veg' market for the equivalent of 14p (Sterling) / kilo. We've still got half of a 9 kilo one in the fridge but I had to buy it because now's the time the price will begin to increase.
I'm getting a little bit gittery about what I'll fill up on once watermelon isn't an option 😕 It's been my diet saviour so far this summer (I'm a volume eater)..

acpgee

We had some blue cheese that needed using up. Googled and found versions of this salad with blue cheese instead of feta. I think I do prefer feta though.

weatherking2019

I had NO IDEA it's hard getting a whole watermelon 🍉🍉🍉in UK. It's everywhere here in the US. And compared to Japan where they sell PERFECT ROUND melons for $$$, it's GINORMOUS and cheap!
My kids alone can eat half of a 10kg melon in one serving!! I love watermelon too but been limiting since it's rather high in carbs
Thanks for the ideas! I have a street party this weekend. I will be bringing watermelon, feta, mint salad! (Mint is taking over my garden this year!!!)