Refreshing food in hot weather...

[calibrax]

Nothing beats this. Half a watermelon (rest is in the fridge for tomorrow)

[Mobile Chicane]

True dat.

Try freezing it and whizzing it up in a blender with vodka.

[Cotty]

Trust you MC to add aclcohol

[calibrax]

Heads up... whole watermelons are £2 at Asda. Absolute bargain!

[Pferdestarke]

Good shout.

Crunch or spit the pips?

[DocJock]

Same price in Tesco this morning...

[calibrax]

Pferdestarke said:

Good shout.

Crunch or spit the pips?

Eat them. I think the seeds been bred nowadays to be smaller and softer than they used to be, you barely notice them.

Of course, we all got told when we were younger that if we eat the seeds they could grow inside us and kill us. As I'm now in my 40s and have yet to hear of anyone dying due to "internal watermelon growth"... then I think it's probably fairly safe to eat them!

[Agrilla]

Costco have the most delicious watermelons I've ever eaten.

THE perfect hangover food

[Mobile Chicane]

Cotty said:

Trust you MC to add aclcohol

Oi!

Anyone would think I was an alkyholic or something.

[Wadeski]

Watermelon is great.

Somen noodles are good when its hot too - thin wheat noodles on ice with a soy dipping sauce. Like air-conditioning from the inside out.

[Slink]

Mobile Chicane said:

Cotty said:

Trust you MC to add aclcohol

Oi!

Anyone would think I was an alkyholic or something.

I remember a thread quite some time ago, with you saying you ordered over a hundred quids worth of spirits for cocktails.

no problem with that, infact I would rather like it if someone shared that kinda thing with me.

how did the cocktails turn out? i think i remember you said you got loads of different flavoured spirits like horseradish and watermelon flavour. any good?

[Digger]

Watermelon, or ice creams for the win! The only savoury dishes I can think of would be chilled soups or light chilled salads.

[The Nur]

Freeze a banana and blend it with a pint of milk. Awesome and I don't even like bananas.

[Mobile Chicane]

Slink said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Cotty said:

Trust you MC to add aclcohol

Oi!

Anyone would think I was an alkyholic or something.

I remember a thread quite some time ago, with you saying you ordered over a hundred quids worth of spirits for cocktails.

no problem with that, infact I would rather like it if someone shared that kinda thing with me.

how did the cocktails turn out? i think i remember you said you got loads of different flavoured spirits like horseradish and watermelon flavour. any good?

I do like to experiment

My main learning with various vodkas and fruit liqueurs is that flavoured vodkas in the main taste very artificial and liqueurs are all too sweet for me.

My mission this summer is to perfect the mojito. I'm not a fan of the murky green bits in the bottom, so I've been using bashed-up Fox's glacier mints. I'll be interested to see how a special mojito mint syrup compares once this arrives.

I also bought a classic Waring blender expressly for the purpose of making frozen cocktails - like a grown-up Slush Puppie. Any fruit juice will do, frozen in ice cube trays. Just bung it all in the blender and whizz it together with the spirit of your choice. Hic!

[jas xjr]

The Nur said:

Freeze a banana and blend it with a pint of milk. Awesome and I don't even like bananas.

try it with natural yogurt , I have some every day . with strawberries from my garden atm

[Huntsman]

Not really food as such, but Earl Grey with lemon in this weather is fab.

[The Nur]

jas xjr said:

try it with natural yogurt , I have some every day . with strawberries from my garden atm

Hmmm, never tried it with yogurt, good call. *pops off to Tesco*

[The Nur]

jas xjr said:

try it with natural yogurt , I have some every day . with strawberries from my garden atm

Tried it. Loved it. Thanks very much

[jas xjr]

The Nur said:

jas xjr said:

try it with natural yogurt , I have some every day . with strawberries from my garden atm

Tried it. Loved it. Thanks very much

glad you enjoyed it

[anonymous-user]

My favourite things to eat in hot weather are tomatoes. Not a big fan of watermelon.