Sunday, September 27, 2015

Watermelon Ginger Frappé

At the height of summer, you buy a big watermelon. Eat a bunch of it. Let the juice run down your chin, eat all around the rind and save the most central bit for last, for it is the sweetest. When everyone has had their fill, slice the remaining watermelon into thin slices, a quarter inch or so. Cut the rind off and cut the sliced melon into pieces no bigger than 3" in any direction. Line a baking sheet with cling wrap. Lay all your thin sliced melon on the baking sheet, adding more layers of cling wrap and melon as needed, depending on how much melon you have. Freeze the melon on the baking sheet. Next day, move the melon (but not the cling wrap) to gallon freezer ziplocks and store in the freezer until you need a fancy drink.

In a blender, add frozen melon and Q Ginger until it's the consistency of a slushee. It's delicious! (If corn syrup & processed sugar doesn't bother you, make this with ginger beer. Yum!)