Again with the watermelon - I can never get enough during the summer, and that's actually a good thing, because the benefits are practically endless:
Watermelons are an excellent source of several vitamins: vitamin A, which helps maintain eye health and is an antioxidant; vitamin C, which helps strengthen immunity, heal wounds, prevent cell damage, promote healthy teeth and gums; and vitamin B6, which helps brain function and helps convert protein to energy. Tomatoes have been highly touted as a great source for lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that helps fight heart disease and several types of cancer — prostate cancer in particular. Watermelon, however, has the highest concentrations of lycopene of any fresh fruit or vegetable.
Hear that? It's practically a superfruit! I ate about 1/3 of that quarter up there sliced up for dessert on Monday, made juice out of half of it on Tuesday, and froze the rest for a slush this morning. Now it's gone, and I'm pretty sad about that. Is it possible to eat too much watermelon? No, right? Let's go with no, because I'm going to buy another one this weekend.
So anyway, they're simple enough to figure out on your own, but here are two great watermelon recipes, one from my own kitchen, and one not from my own kitchen. First, watermelon and classic (yellow) peach juice. You might think you've seen this recipe somewhere before, but you'd be wrong, because that recipe calls for white peaches, and this one uses yellow peaches. Totally different animal, trust me.
To Get:
- About 1/8 of a watermelon
- One or two yellow peaches
To Do:
Throw everything into your juicer (I use a Breville Juice Fountain - I love it and it cost me less than $100), pour it into a Mason jar over ice and top it with your Cuppow because you know you're a total hipster, stick a stripey straw in there (hipster), and suck it back. Breakfast! Or lunch! Or a snack! It's never not perfect!
And also, frozen watermelon slush from You Are My Fave. Caveat: I left out the water, strawberries, and most of the sugar, and I blended mine into a consistency that was more ICEE than Slush Puppy, and then I ate it with a spoon for a mid-morning snack.
Oh, watermelon. Love you forever.