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!

Mango & goat's cheese delight

Another summer salad.  If it's not summer where you are I hope this will help you look forward to your summer.

Ingredients:

Fresh mango

Goat's Cheese – Chevre

Parsley (for colour)

Fish sauce – just a touch

Black pepper

Lemon juice

Extra virgin olive oil

Method:

Slice your mango and cut the skin and pip out – all while trying not to stain a white shirt.

Put it in a shallow bowl and crumble the cheese on top.

Grind lots of black pepper onto it.

Sprinkle your roughtly chopped parsley.

Make a little dressing with the lemon juice, fish sauce and olive oil.  Drizzle it over the top (A confession I just separately drizzled each element rather than combining them first and it worked out just fine).

Mango Cocktail - Christmas Cheer

I looked back into my archives for something just a little bit Christmassy to share and came up with this Mango Cocktail.

If this doesn't feel Christmassy to you, just remember that where I live Christmas falls in high summer so tropical fruit is appropriate.

This lovely smooth cocktail is simple to make:

Instead of putting ice in it I just refrigerated all the ingredients overnight so they were nice and cool

For 4 serves just blend together:
180ml white rum (or less if you prefer less of a kick)
1 teaspoon or a bit more of lemon juice
425g can of mango pieces in juice
250ml of milk
2 tablespoons of caster sugar – I used ½ teaspoon of stevia powder instead

Pour into your festive glasses and enjoy.

Merry Christmas

Mango & Goat's Cheese Delight

Another summer salad.  If it's not summer where you are I hope this will help you look forward to your summer.

Ingredients:

Fresh mango

Goat's Cheese – Chevre

Parsley (for colour)

Fish sauce – just a touch

Black pepper

Lemon juice

Extra virgin olive oil

Method:

Slice your mango and cut the skin and pip out – all while trying not to stain a white shirt.

Put it in a shallow bowl and crumble the cheese on top.

Grind lots of black pepper onto it.

Sprinkle your roughtly chopped parsley.

Make a little dressing with the lemon juice, fish sauce and olive oil.  Drizzle it over the top (A confession I just separately drizzled each element rather than combining them first and it worked out just fine).

Need Some Inspiration? Try Stone Fruit!

Spicy Apricot Bacon Bites

In this Need Some Inspiration post I'm featuring one of the themes from this month's Food on Friday– Stone Fruit.  Next week it'll be tomatoes and then Potluck.

If you would like to see a whole bunch of great stone fruit dishes I suggest you head over to this Pinboard.

The dish at the top of this post is by Jo and Sue – Spicy Apricot Bacon Bites

Mango Chia Pudding  by The Aspiring Home Cook

Raw Lemon Apricot Cream Cakes by Mountain Mantras

Mango Salsa by The Midnight Baker

Cherry Cobbler with a Sugar Cookie Crust by Karen's Kitchen Stories

Best Apricot Crisp by Lydia's Flexitarian Kitchen