Watermelon Feta Salad

I am recently married and for our honeymoon we went on a cruise of the Mediterranean. Cruising is a great way to see a lot of different places in an efficient manner. Unfortunately almost all of the food served on the cruise was incredibly bland, poor cooking technique and so-so presentations....i.e. I was served a supreme of orange that still had seeds in it. Major NO NO. Anyway, probably the best thing I had was a salad of diced watermelon and feta garnished with some chives. At first it can sound a little odd, but trust me it’s worth it!


Fast forward to today...another 95 degree day in sunny San Diego with no air conditioning. We need something that will be refreshing and cool us off so I decided to make this salad. I do not like onions of any form just as themselves. In this raw salad I thought the chives overpowered the melon so as a substitution I used some mint and some lime juice. I did add a little bit of honey as well. I would recommend maybe freezing the watermelon a little bit because the colder it is the better. Adding cucumber would be another refreshing idea. Sooooo good. My picky-ish husband who wouldn’t try it on the honeymoon really enjoyed it tonight!

I also did a quick little shrimp and snow pea sauté. Anyone who knows me knows that my meal just isn’t complete without a little meat (or fish or seafood, whatever). It was a great meal, and didn’t heat the kitchen up too much so that made it even better!

Oh and I remembered to take pictures!

Hello

So, my first posting.  I'm quite sure that many culinary people, after seeing "Julie and Julia" thought why can't I write a blog about my food?  Well, I am one of those people.  It's just a good way to keep track of the foods I make and try to actually keep my recipes together so that I might be able to put together a book or something someday.  I absolutely LOVE food.  I think about it all the time.  I would say I most likely lean towards a Mediteranean-ish cuisine, but then again its so hard to pigeon hole myself like that.  I usually just make whatever I'm craving at the moment. 

Last night I was originally planning on making Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon, inspired by the movie of course, but ran out of time.  (the beach was calling me and I just had to visit!)  Instead I decided to make Tilapia en Papillote, for those who don't know its tilapia steamed in parchemnt on a bed of vegetables.  I pulled out my trusty Flavor Bible and decided to use fennel, leeks, baby zucchini, and cherry tomatoes as my vegetables.  I added a side of jasmine rice pilaf for a starch and it was quite a nice light meal.  The presentation is quite nice and the cherry tomatoes just give a lovely pop of color.  My husband really enjoyed it so it will go into my regular recipe file.  Of course the whole time I had planned on taking a picture to post as well, but when it was done I got to excited and ate it instead.  I will try to remember in the future to take pictures.  Anyway, that was it for yesterday.  Work tonight will keep me from making dinner today but I should come up with something for tomorrow night.