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Thirsty Thursday: Watermelon Agua Fresca

August 8, 2013

 Watermelon Agua Fresca

Ahh summer…

What is your favorite drink to enjoy during the summer? Is it a beer? A glass of sangria? A glass of icy cold lemonade? Well, I love it all. I had such a hard time picking a drink to share for this week’s “Summer Time Favorites” themed Thirsty Thursday post. I wanted to share something that I find really refreshing and is simple to prepare because you don’t want to be stuck inside making a drink, you want to be outside enjoying it!

Watermelon Agua Fresca is a perfect summer time drink. I can’t get enough of it at this point. I’m really missing beer, chilled white wines, and sangria now but this Watermelon Agua Fresca is really hitting the spot right now.

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I keep buying watermelons like they are going out of style. I don’t think I’ve ever eating so much watermelon in my life this summer. And now I’m drinking it. It’s just hard to resist it since it is at its peak freshness for such a short period of time.

Oh, and on the plus side I don’t have a watermelon sized bump… yet.

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And Amanda has shared a Sonic favorite because you just can’t resist Happy Hour in the summer. But if you miss Happy Hour don’t fret since you can now make your own Ocean Water at home. Soooo good!!!

Watermelon Agua Fresca

Serves: 4

Ingredients

  • 5 cups fresh, seedless watermelon, cut into cubes
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 T. sugar or agave, or to taste (optional)
  • Juice of 2 fresh limes or to taste
  • Lime slices, for garnish
  • Optional add-ons: fresh mint or basil, sparkling water, champagne, or vodka

Instructions

  1. Puree together the watermelon, water, sugar, and lime juice in a blender.
  2. Pour into glasses and garnish with lime slices.

Sourced from Playing with my Food

Filed Under: Drinks Tagged With: Agua fresca, drink, limes, sugar, watermelon, watermelon aqua fresca

6.28-30: Weekend Recap

July 1, 2013

{Friday Night} left work early – headache & tiredness | nap with Kemperpup  | Price gets home | Price and Kemper go for Poker Night at Chris’ | lounge for hours watching mindless tv | bed

{Saturday} up early with Kemper | back to bed | sleep in ’till 9.30 | cleaning the house | errands together- Petsmart, Babies R Us, Michael’s, Stop and Shop | lunch- hot dogs and chips | more cleaning | talk to my mom | Price picks his dad up at the airport | catch up and get settled in | grill steak, veggies, and corn for dinner | relax | bed

{Sunday} up early | Price and Tom get McDonald’s | lounging around | Price and Tom go to Target | go back to bed | get ready | go to Home Depot | gardening out front | lunch- hot dogs, corn, horiatiki salad | relaxing and puppy cuddle time while watching the NASCAR race | nap | dinner-KFC | Price played frisbee with Kemper out back | bed

hot dog lunch

4th of july wreath

18 week baby bump

horiatiki salad

kemper tongue watermelon dessert

price and kemper dan brown inferno

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: cleaning, errands, grilling, hot dogs, naps, NASCAR, salads, summer, watermelon, weekend, weekend recap

Pure Summer: Watermelon, Tomato, Feta Salad

July 30, 2010

This Watermelon, Tomato, Feta Salad is a wonderful salad to serve all summer long. It shows off all the bright, wonderful flavors of summer in one bite.

This salad screams summer with every bite. Juicy watermelon, ripe tomatoes, crisp cucumber, zesty onion with a simple dressing- pure summer perfection.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salads Tagged With: bon appetit magazine, cucumbers, red onion, salad, side salad, summer salad, tomato, watermelon

Watermelon Sorbet

July 14, 2010

 

Price is staying in CT again to work for the next 2 weeks. We miss each other but there are some ‘advantages’ to being alone. Like getting to make the food I like Price does not like- hello fish dinner! While Price is enjoying having an entire bed to himself since I’m a hot sleeper who ‘needs’ lots of blankets, making the bed sauna like.

 

 Also I get to make the food I really like without having to worry about Pricer eating it. Nothing’s worse than coming home expecting to find leftovers, drinks, 7days croissants, or sorbet but they are all gone. Well there are a lot of things worse but it is disappointing. If I remember, I try to get extra of things just in case or getting him his own so he won’t get mine.

 

So that leads me to this watermelon sorbet. I previously wrote that I love sorbet when I posted a recipe for Raspberry Sorbet. It’s completely true. I really love sorbet. So when I saw a watermelon at Trader Joes I knew what would be in store for (just) me this week…. Watermelon Sorbet. Just like the raspberry sorbet, this is really easy because it is just a few ingredients and steps. Basically just: 1) cut fruit 2) blend fruit 3) put in ice cream maker. The lime juice adds a slight subtle kick, which helps offset the sweetness from the watermelon and simple syrup.

 

 Now don’t feel bad for Price since I just explained that I don’t like to share. He knew what he was getting into. Besides, I am looking forward to making ice cream recipes and ice cream is meh to me so that can be all for him.

 Watermelon Sorbet

1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
approximately a 1/3 of a medium-sized watermelon- yielding approx 3 cups of puree
juice of 2 limes

1) Over medium heat, combine the water and sugar in a small pot. Cook until the sugar has melted. Cool completely!

2) Cut up chunks of watermelon and put into a blender to make a puree. Strain the puree for see bits and larger fibers.

3) When the simple syrup is cool, put into a 4+ cup measuring cup. Add watermelon puree until you reach 4 cups total.*

4) Add the lime juice and mix well.

5) Pour into your ice cream maker and chill according to your manufacturer’s instructions.

*This recipe is for a 1 1/2 quart ice cream maker. This amount works. Please don’t think that some extra watermelon is okay because it will overflow out of your machine!!*

Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: lime, sorbet, watermelon, watermelon sorbet

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