Watermelon Summer Salad
Summer salad had always meant a vinegary mix of onions, cucumbers and tomatoes when I was growing up, but now I see the term in a broader sense and have started making all kinds of fun and tasty summer salads with produce either from our garden or local farmers markets. We also use maple syrup occasionally rather than white sugar and add basil, mint, fresh herbs or even cheese in some of the recipes.
You can substitute cantaloupe or peaches for the watermelon in this recipe or just add all three. Summer salads with fruit are served and enjoyed fresh and don’t really pack as well as some of our other recipes, but they are perfect for prepping at home or just making at the campsite.
Hey, everybody. Jimmy Kennedy, June Kennedy, and captain Frieda are out here on the lake again. We’re in the Big Skeeter and I’m going to show you a variation on one of my very, very favorite recipes. And once again, I know I say that absolutely all the time, but I love fresh vegetables and vinegar, oil, and a little bit of seasoning.
And this is a this is kind of an odd one. This is using to me sorry, not tomatoes. It looks like a watermelon, watermelon instead of onions. So all this is from the garden. Except for the watermelon. We kind of purchased that we’ll have watermelon soon I hope. It’s super fresh. This isn’t really your favorite, though, is it? No, but I do like it.
You like it separately, but not together maybe. This is a great summer salad and we’re going to keep doing these summer salads. We’re going to make a bunch of them here in the next couple of months. And, you know, while we have the produce coming straight from the garden and from all these local markets. We’re going to use it up.
It’s absolutely delicious. It’s super healthy. It’s great to make outside. It’s great to make at camp, you know, even in the boat and have people ask me to, do you really make this stuff in the boat? Like, you know, would you do this if you’re just going out with the family? And absolutely is the answer. We do this a lot.
It’s fun and is what we do. We cook, we go outside, we fish, we have fun, we take breaks and we make good food. It’s a big part of being outside for us, and that’s what we do. You learn a little bit right chopping the basil, pretty decent. All right. We’re going to put this thing together – super duper easy.
And you can cut all of this at home and just bring it with you. I mean, that’s another thing we do when we are going to the boat. I don’t have to cut everything in the boat. You just want equal portions or equal amounts of watermelon, cute and tomato. We’re just going to stir these up a little bit, get them mixed in. We could use a bigger bowl.
But that works you’re going to go ahead and add that basil, honey. Yeah, but olive oil looks good. It does look good, doesn’t it? It is good. It’s really tasty, it’s surprisingly tasty. There’s nothing wrong with mixing the fruit and the veggies. What else you think you know what else would be good in there is peaches. Yeah. Your favorite. That would be really good.
We could substitute the peach for the tomato. Maple syrup would be great let’s do that next time.
All right, folks, June is going to serve us up. Again, this is a variation on a summer salad it’s on our website that we made with cucumbers, onions and tomatoes, with vinegar. This is watermelon, cucumber, fresh tomatoes, a little bit of olive oil and pepper and that’s it. Just a few ingredients.
And it is beautiful. That’s good. Sweetie. All right here I’ll trade spoons with you. There you go, you go that one. Let me know what you think.
Good isn’t it? It’s really good, refreshing and healthy. We like it. Go out{side} we’ll see you next time.
Ingredients
- 1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- A couple of tablespoons basil, cut or torn
- 1 cup cucumber, cut to 1-inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 cup tomato, cut to 1-inch pieces
- 1 cup watermelon, cut to 1-inch pieces
Directions
- Mix the oil and vinegar well in a small bowl.
- Cut the watermelon, cucumber and tomato to approximately the same size and place in a medium-size bowl.
- Pour the oil and vinegar mixture over the fruit and vegetables and gently stir or toss.
- Add the salt and pepper and basil and gently stir or toss again.
- Serve in individual bowls and garnish with extra olive oil and basil if you would like.
Enjoy summer and Go Out{side}!
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