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Ms. Cooper
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Username: Ms_cooper
Post Number: 83
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 12:50 pm: | 
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Any tips for doing this successfully? |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8385
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 12:59 pm: |
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Scoop the watermelon out thoroughly & mop up the excess juice with a paper towel. Slice, cut, ball everything very prettily. Save watermelon and strawberries whole until right before you serve; they break down quickly. Mix gently.
I'd use strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, peaches, watermelon, cherries (pit & cut in half). Hull strawberries & peel peaches. Any fresh summer fruits, really. I avoid apples and pears because they are really fall fruit.
Especially in this weather, keep in fridge. If you are serving at an outdoor event, you may want to consider nesting the melon in a bed of ice.
I like to add ground cinnamon and a splash of vanilla extract to my fruit salad. No one knows what it is and it makes it quited yummy.
Oops- just gave up my secret! |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3512
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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Greentree--Yum! I also like to squeeze one half of a fresh juice orange over the summer fruits--keeps them fresh, gives a little zing, and makes a great start on that sauce that collects at the bottom. |
justmelaura
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Username: Justmelaura
Post Number: 883
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 6:42 pm: |
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Fresh Mint leaves are really tasty also. Sometimes a splash of Grand Marnier. |
red
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 6416
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 6:58 pm: |
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greenetree I am coming over for some fruit salad (yummy yummy) |
Ms. Cooper
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Username: Ms_cooper
Post Number: 85
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:36 am: |
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While we are on the subject, can you recommend a neat/easy/fast way to hull the strawberries? I always wind up wasting so much of the berry when I use a knife. Any thoughts? |
mim
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Username: Mim
Post Number: 642
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:43 am: |
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To hull strawberries, I use the tip of a vegetable peeler. Apply gentle leverage, and it pulls the stem out neatly without taking too much berry with it. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8398
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:57 am: |
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you mean everyone doesn't own a hulling knife?
Love the mint idea. I tend not to like the juce, but TS will do that some times.
A bit off topic, but I am growing a Sugar Bush plant (member of the sumac family). It's leaves are sweeter than sugar. Last night, TS muddle some with marjoram and olive oil and used it to baste sea scallops, which she then grilled. They absolutely rocked!
Of course, we would have been at Toro Loco had I seen JML's post before this morning.....  |
chroma
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Username: Chroma
Post Number: 47
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:07 am: |
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You can buy little paring knives at the big Shop-Rite on Morris Avenue for hulling strawberries. They come two in a pack and are at the end of the fruit and vegetable aisle, near the corn on the cob holders, skewers, etc. They work the best of all (peeler, strawberry huller,etc.)leave the most strawberry, and are the fastest. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 2054
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:15 am: |
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You're all forgetting the most important part -- first you need to pour vodka in the watermelon....then cut into it. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8401
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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No, no. You inject the watermelon with vodka a few hours before cutting into it. |
Wendy
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Username: Wendy
Post Number: 2778
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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How do you remove the pits from cherries? Is there a tool for that? |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8405
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 11:19 am: |
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There is, but I've never used one. I cut them in half with a paring knife and pop the pitt out. Cherries are usually so expensive that I don't buy that many, anyway, so it's not a lot of work. |
Ms. Cooper
Citizen
Username: Ms_cooper
Post Number: 86
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 12:48 pm: |
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Thanks for all the feedback! |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 353
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 12:51 pm: |
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a) you could borrow my cherry pitter, if you'll come to collect it 
b) I save time hulling the strawberries by slicing the tops off just under the green-leaf line - these days that part is all white and tasteless anyway
c) often it's a good idea to keep citrus fruit and pineapple out of fruit salads, now we're so aware of food allergies - they're amongst the more common. So a person may be able to eat the berries but not the citrus or pineapple. (Damn! I used to love my fruits too before my allergies really kicked in) However kiwifruit make nice chunks in there as do other melons, crisp apples and bananas
d) is the Sugar Bush 'stevia'? really really sweet stuff, if so... |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 2071
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:27 pm: |
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GT - but of course, you're right - the wait time is very important.... |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8434
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:34 pm: |
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We had a theater venue similar to PNC Arts (or whatever it's called these days) when I was a teen. They'd check for bottles, etc. when we went to concerts. But they could never take away the watermelon we brought for our picnic on the lawn! |
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