Mango & Watermelon Salad

 This is just a short post to show you this Mango and Watermelon Salad.  So easy to make but easy on the eye and tasty and cooling too!  And healthy as well.

 

Just cut up your fresh mango and watermelon.  Squeeze the juice of half a lemon over it and a tablespoon full of your favourite liqueur or spirit.  And that's it!

Need Some Inspiration? Try Bacon or Berries & Fruit!

Sheet Pan with Bacon & Egg in a Basket

Food on Friday: June Edition was another little gem. I know we all have lots of things to worry about these days but I am starting to wonder...

The pic at the top was brought over by  Cooking with Carlee – Sheet Pan with Bacon & Egg in a Basket  - ingenious

Real Momma brought us this Sparkling Blackberry Basil Refresher

And how about this stunning Greek Yoghurt Tangerine Cake by Shockingly Delicious

Summer Fruit Streusel Cake by Oh Crumbs (used to be Baking in Franglais)

Bacon Country Bread with Corn by Karen's Kitchen Stories – so accomplished!

For other bacon, berry and fruit dishes head over to this Bacon Pinboard, Berries Pinboard or this Fruit Pinboard

Food on Friday: June 2020

It's the second Friday of the month so here is Food on Friday. 

As you can see, there are 2 new themes –   Bacon and Berries/Fruit.  I hope you'll find some great stuff in your archives to share.

Feel free to add a number of things under each category and come back later in the month to add more if you would like to.   

To add your dishes, just put the name of the dish together with your blog name/name into the first Mr Linky box you will find below.  Then paste the url for your post about it into the second box. Mr Linky now makes you tick a compliance box which I always forget first time!

I'll be pinning your creations to the relevant Pinboards – Bacon, Berries, Fruit

Have fun!

Lychees with Mascarpone Cream

Fresh lychees are worth it.  The canned ones are just a shadow of the fresh ones.

So if you see these little beauties at your greengrocers, pick up some and give them a go.

They are a bit fiddly to prepare.  First you have to peel off the tough pink outer skin.  Then you have to remove the smooth hard stone in the middle.  I got some right so that they curled back together and looked nice and others fell apart a bit.  But it all tasted nice.

I served them freshly peeled with a dollop of mascarpone cream.  That is equal quantities of mascarpone and double cream just stirred together.  I also put a few basil leaves along with some peel on the plate for a pop of colour.

Grape Jam – taste fine, texture not so good

I did this experiment upon discovering a bag of frozen grapes in the freezer which dated from Christmas 2017.  After some cursory research I discovered that I could apparently make jam with them.  The results were both good and bad.  But only 1 and a half jars resulted so it's not a big deal.

Ingredients:

1 pound frozen blue grapes (approx. 500g)

Sugar – 1 cup – 250g

Lemon juice – a squeeze

Method:

The recipes I found suggested that you peel the grapes and then blend the skins before adding back the pulp.  They also suggested de-seeding the grapes.

I tried to avoid most of this faff – which probably explains the result.

I just threw the thawed grapes into a pot and tried to mash them – with limited success.  I then snipped at them with kitchen scissors until my patience wore out.

I then boiled the grapes for about 5 minutes before adding the sugar and the squeeze of lemon juice.

I boiled it away fiercely for about 25 minutes.  I tested it on a plate cold from the freezer.  It didn't show any particular signs of setting.

But I had had enough.  I poured it into my clean jars and waited to see.

It had thickened up a bit but was still a mix of runny and grape skins and pulp.  The taste was ok though.

Food on Friday: September 2019

It's the second Friday of the month so here is Food on Friday. 

As you can see, there are 3 new themes – Pies & Tarts, Salads and Fruit.  I hope you'll find some great stuff in your archives to share.

Feel free to add a number of things under each category and come back later in the month to add more if you would like to.   

To add your dishes, just put the name of the dish together with your blog name/name into the first Mr Linky box you will find below.  Then paste the url for your post about it into the second box. Mr Linky now makes you tick a compliance box which I always forget first time!

I'll be pinning your creations to the relevant Pinboards – Pies & Tarts, Salads and Fruit

Have fun!