Watermelon madness
Watermelon icecream (yes it’s yellow watermelon!)
‘Have you made something with your melon yet?’ ‘No, not yet but maybe we should post it together… Wouldn’t that be fun?’ That was more or less the content of the tweets Meeta and I exchanged a mere two weeks ago. You see; after the fabulous Plate to Page weekend there were watermelons left over. I took one home and Meeta took the other one. Naturally, that begged for something to be done with this huge melon and so that’s how another morning discussion started on the Coldcoffeeclub, our post Plate2Page hang out… 
Before we knew it, we had gotten ourselves into yet another assignment and more homework! This time the assignment was photographic; take two photos of a watermelon (or in the absence of watermelons, another melon will do); one raw and one prepared. Now I have to confess that I made this watermelon icecream and by the time we figured out what the assignment was gonna be I had already tossed out the remains of the watermelon and the fruit itself was in our bellies. So I had no raw left. To compensate for that I bought another watermelon, red this time, and prepared a watermelon salad. Delicious too! I will share the recipe for that at a later stage. You can see all the entries for this watermelon contest on the Plate to Page facebook page here or visit the separate blogs of the ‘contestants’. Meeta, Astrid, Arthi, Ishay, Ilva, Jeanne, Mona, Jenn, Jamie and I will add more links once all posts are live!
As far as the watermelon icecream goes; it was delicious although I did have a hard time getting it frozen. I added Grand Marnier into the mix (the original recipe from David Lebovitsch had wodka) which tasted really good but I might have overdone it with the alcoholic contents meaning the ice did not freeze very well. I manage to get two fairly decent balls after one day in the freezer…
Watermelon sorbet icecream
Yield: 4
Fresh and delicious but take care not to add too much alcohol; it might have problems freezing properly
Ingredients:
- 750 ml watermelon juice (see note)
- 100 gr sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp fresh limejuice
- 1-2 tbps grand marnier
- 1-2 tbsp crunchy chocolate balls
Directions:
- Heat 125 ml of the watermelon juice in a small saucepan together with the sugar and the salt. Heat until all sugar is dissolved.
- Take of the heat and stir in the rest of the 675 ml watermelon in a medium bowl
- MIx the lime juice together with the grand marnier in the watermelon mix
- Leave to cool thoroughly before putting it in the icemachine maker. Freeze in the machine according to the instructions of the manufacturer.
- Ad the chocolate the last minute of churning
I used a watermelon that had virtually no pits. Clean the watermelon, remove any seeds where needed and puree the flesh in a blender. You can pass it through a sieve if you feel that is necessary. One large watermelon should give you more then enough juice
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Still love your watermelon icecream shot.
But I am missing the “raw” shot? *wipes eyes* *gg*
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Simone (junglefrog) — June 22nd, 2011 at 12:45
Yes I know… I sort of forgot to take it.. Bought a new watermelon but then ended up doing the salad with that… Tsst… Still have some leftovers in the fridge so will be making up for the missing link soon! Promiss!
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Astrid — June 22nd, 2011 at 15:44
hahaha Simone you are funny
am curious what you will do with the raw melon – photography wise LOL
Gorgeous colors Simone..ooh I love the idea of too much liqueur
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I’m not a big fan of watermelon, but I’d eat that sorbet with much pleasure! Great colors.
Cheers,
Rosa
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How lovely and refreshing! That melon is so golden Simone. Love a good sorbet!
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Egads, I am late! Haven’t seen watermelons at the market yet! This looks so delicious and refreshing, and I love the splash of Grand Marnier. And crunchy chocolate balls? What? Wow!
You can’t know how thrilled I am that everyone loved P2P so much that we are keeping it alive and going! Yay! I can’t wait for the next assignment!
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What amazing amazing colour! The recipe seems so easy – I think the kids will love this one. We made frozen yoghurt Popsicles with the leftover flesh of our watermelon …. They were tasty.
Móna xxx
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Absolutely love this! I think I need to go back and look for a yellow watermelon now. Sorbet for such warm summer days is perfect.
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Love the color..have not got hands on yellow melon yet. Lovely treat for the summer, Simone.
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Such a bright colour, never would have guessed it was watermelon! Perfect for a hot summer day!
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The photo is beautiful. I’m a new reader, but I’m in love with all these recipes you have to offer. It’s quite hot here, so this cool delight is making my mouth water.
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That looks so delicious! Perfect for summer
I love the colors in the picture too
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Watermelone juice, sorbet that is the most refreshing you can jave in hot summerday:)Such a beautiful pics.
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Yellow watermelon! Now that’s a new one to me! Looks fabulous. I’m sorry I did not get round to participating in this – had lots of good intentions but too much else going on at the moment…
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