Melon mania

The sun is out and it's quite amazing. This made for a hot and quick trip to the market yesterday! Most every Wednesday morning I head to the Santa Monica farmers market to get (most recently), eggs from Candy, asparagus and artichokes from the folks on the corner, peaches from Reiger farms, strawberries, tomatoes and green bean (next to Candy), carrots, chiles and the MOST amazing melons. These melons just looked gorgeous and smelled amazing. They were so cute and I was told they had intense flavor. I was sold. Load me up with four melons and I'm outta there.

Now, what do to with all the melons? Of course I'm going to eat them, but making them taste even better by keeping it simple and only including a few ingredients is what I wanted to do. The melons were really ready to eat. They scented our home with a sweet & musky flavors that ripe melons have.

I made a simple melon salad with:

blueberries

mint

melon

You can combine any combination and I'm sure it will be amazing! try it out!

what about other melon ideas?

basic melon salad-mix up the types of melons

prosciutti wrapped melon

melon flavored water

melon and mint slushy

grilled melon on skewers

It's summer and enjoy!!