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Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup

©Minze 2016
 
 
My peppermint an moroccan mint are doing well in my garden. I am always looking for recipes using mint. I leafed through my one and only Curtis Stone cookbook for a Fresh and Fruity! recipe and stopped at a recipe using mint and waterlemon. This recipe is already tried and tested from some I♥CC members: Kim from Stirring the Pot served watermelon for May Potluck and Joyce from Kitchen Flavours already served it for a picnic.
 
 

Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup

Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup (1)

This smells and tastes like summer, I bought a quartered watermelon and halved the recipe. The second portion was just for me, in two different jars I enjoyed the fruit salad at work.

Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup

Yield: 6 servings

Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup (2)

Simple recipe for Watermelon with Fresh Mint and Lime Syrup

Ingredients:

  • 70 grams sugar
  • 1 lime, grated zest and juice
  • 1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh mint leaves
  • 1/2 large oval watermelon

SOURCE

ISBN 978-0307408747 *

modified by from:
Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone:
Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood
*
ISBN 978-0307408747

Instructions

  1. Stir the sugar, 2 tablespoons of water, lime zest, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of lime juice in a small heavy saucepan over high heat until the sugar dissolves and the syrup comes to a boil. Let the syrup cool completely, and then refrigerate it until cold.
  2. Strain the chilled syrup into a small bowl and stir in the mint. Allow the mint to infuse into the syrup for at least 5 minutes.
  3. Place the watermelon, cut side down, on a work surface. Using a large sharp knife, cut the watermelon horizontally to form a 5-cm-thick slab. (Reserve the remaining watermelon for another use.)
  4. Trim away the rind and then cut the slab into 5-cm chunks. Transfer the watermelon chunks to a large serving platter, keeping the chunks in a single layer and maintaining the shape of the slab. Pour the cold syrup over the watermelon, and serve.

total time: 30 minutes
preparation time: 25 minutes
cooking/baking time: 5 minutes

 
 
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Photo Credit: I ♥ Cooking Clubs
fresh and fruity collage (1)
 
 
 
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Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing

Wie die Zeit vergeht. Vor 11 Jahren ging ich mit meinem Küchenlatein an den Start. Viel hat sich verändert, nicht nur in der Bloggerwelt sondern auch im privaten Umfeld. Die jungen Herren sind erwachsen, gehen ihre eigenen (Koch)Wege. Ich arbeite Vollzeit und bekoche mich unter der Woche allein, weil der Inschennör in einer wunderbaren Kantine zu Mittag isst.

Wir hatten ein paar Tage Urlaub, der viel zu schnell vorbeiging; wir sichten gerade drölfzigtausend Bilder. Und ich bereite mir wieder Gerichte für Lunch at Work zu. Das Rezept für

Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing

Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing

lässt sich auch gut mit Tomaten oder aber auch mit einer Avocado-Weintraubenkombination zubereiten. Auf jeden Fall empfehle ich Büffelmozzarella.

Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing

Menge: 1 Portion

Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing (2)

Erdbeeren mit Mozzarella und Pinienkern-Basilikum-Dressing lässt sich gut als Lunch at Work als Salat im Glas zur Arbeit mitnehmen.

Zutaten:

Salat

  • 200 Gramm Erdbeeren, gewaschen, Strunk entfernt, geviertelt
  • 1 Packung Büffelmozzarella, Abtropfgewicht 125 Gramm, abgetropft in kleine Würfel geschnitten

Dressing

  • 12,5 Gramm Pinienkerne
  • 4 Gramm Basilikumblätter, gewaschen
  • 1,5 Essl. Olivenöl
  • 1 Essl. Balsamico, weiß
  • 1/4 Teel. Meersalz

QUELLE

978-3850339759 *

abgewandelt von nach:
Shaking Salad *
ISBN: 978-3850339759

ZUBEREITUNG

  1. Mozzarella und Erdbeeren in ein Glas schichten.
  2. Für das Dressing das Basilikum mit den restlichen Zutaten nicht zu fein pürieren.
  3. Das Dressing vor dem Essen über den Salat gießen, den Deckel schließen und gut schütteln.

Gesamtzeit: 10 Minuten
Vorbereitungszeit: 5 Minuten
Koch-/Backzeit: 5 Minuten

 
 
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Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette

This week’s theme at I♥CC: Surf and/or Turf! Surf and Turf is seafood and steak served together as a meal at a restaurant. But there is more than one definition for turf, it could be also green grass. My choice for this week

Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette

Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette

I liked it plain, just asparagus and shrimps in their vinaigrette. Delicious.

I used organic shrimps, cultured in the Baltic Sea, bought in my favourite supermarket.

Fördegarnelen

Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette

Yield: 2 servings

Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette Collage

This recipe fpr Grilled Shrimp and Asparagus with Lemon-Shallot-Vinaigrette is not only made with just five ingredients, it also cooks from start to finish in just 15 minutes. It can be served, if you like, with your favorite rice—long-grain or basmati.

Ingredients:

  • 1 lemon
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallots
  • 60 ml extra-virgin olive oil
  • alt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 500 grams medium-thin asparagus, woody ends trimmed
  • 200 grams shrimp, peeled, tails left on, and deveined
  • ⅓ cup shaved Pecorino Romano cheese, optional

SOURCE

978-0345542526 *

modified by from:
What’s for Dinner?: Delicious Recipes
for a Busy Life
*
ISBN: 978-0345542526
also found on The Saturday Evening Post

Instructions

  1. Prepare an outdoor grill for medium-high cooking over direct heat.
  2. Grate zest from lemon into small bowl.Squeeze 2 tablespoons of juice from lemon and add to bowl.Add shallots and whisk together.
  3. Spread asparagus and shrimp on large rimmed baking sheet. Coat with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
  4. Transfer shrimp and asparagus to grill and cook, turning asparagus and shrimp occasionally, for about 4 minutes, or until shrimp are almost opaque throughout when pierced with tip of sharp knife and asparagus are crisp-tender. Remove from grill.
  5. In large bowl, toss asparagus with enough vinaigrette to coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
  6. Divide asparagus among four dinner plates and top with shrimp. Drizzle more vinaigrette over shrimp. Sprinkle Pecorino Romano cheese over shrimp, if desired, and serve hot.

total time: 15 minutes
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking/baking time: 5 minutes

 
 
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Photo Credit: I ♥ Cooking Clubs
IHCCSurf&TurfCollage
 
 
 
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