by Lea Hogg
The summer brings manna in our journey through life in the form of fruit here, so much of it with the fullest of flavors that you can imagine. And watermelons come in all sorts of shapes and sizes including these mini ones i picked from Joseph‘s harvest.
I have small, medium and large ones today and you can compare the size with the lemon.
Joseph has winter Cassaba melons too, the ones with white flesh and a tough bright yellow rind. It may seem a bit unusual to have fields full of winter melons in the height of summer.
I was surprised this morning while I was preparing my dish, having a feast with all the left overs because i was not expecting the ripe sweet flavors, much more so than when we find them in the middle of winter when we leave them to ripen at room temperature.
For my dish today you will need:
1/4 of a regular size watermelon, peeled and deseeded
1/4 of a winter melon, peeled and cleaned
Juice of 1/4 lemon
1 teaspoon honey
Cut equal sizes, about 1/2-inch thick square shapes of watermelon and melon. Arrange alternate colors checkerboard style on a serving tray or plated individually.
Drizzle a few drops of lemon juice and a teaspoon of honey. Refrigerate.
I used fresh chocolate mint leaves
For more watermelon recipes, these two were very popular last year ! Watermelon amd feta checkerboard salad
and watermelon Chili Preserve.
Beautiful presentation!
Glad you like it, thank you !
Great idea! 🙂
Thank you so much !
🙂 Have a great week ahead!
Beautiful, Lea. Baby Lady loves watermelon. We have only had a couple this year and I need to do more with them while they are in season. They work with sweet and savory so well. I love the chocolate mint leaf as the garnish. Great post.
I thought of you when i was putting this together every time i looked at the mini one no bigger than the size two lemons and it was also nice and ripe … Remember me to Baby Lady !
Reblogged this on Chef Ceaser.
Thank you for the reblog !
Gorgeous! And I bet delicious. 🙂
Yes absolutely, they are so sweet at the moment and i love their different textures in this dish ! Have a great week 🙂
Thank you, you as well. 🙂
Very artistic and refreshing. Indeed watermelons come in all shapes. In Japan they make square/cube ones, even heart shaped ones. 😀 )))
Do they? I have to look them up, there is so much of it here at the moment that it is good to look for other ways to use them up 🙂
The idea of a mosaic is very clever!
Glad you like it, it is fun to make and striking to serve. I also have a watermelon and feta chequerboard salad http://goodfoodeveryday.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/two-different-watermelon-salads-with-identical-ingredients/
Have a great week !
What a great idea – and – who said Croatian Coat of Arms wasn’t yummy 😀
Absolutely what an artist friend said o me as soon as he saw this. Thank you and hope you are keeping well !
Great minds think alike 😀 Cheers
They sure do, hope you are keeping well…