{"id":7075,"date":"2009-07-19T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2009-07-20T01:24:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T07:24:48","slug":"watermelon-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/07\/watermelon-salsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Salsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/07\/watermelon-salsa\/watermelon_salsa_001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17153\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Watermelon_Salsa_001-e1437407657699.jpg\" alt=\"Watermelon Salsa\" width=\"3456\" height=\"5184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Watermelon_Salsa_001-e1437407657699.jpg 3456w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Watermelon_Salsa_001-e1437407657699-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Watermelon_Salsa_001-e1437407657699-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Watermelon_Salsa_001-e1437407657699-666x999.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3456px) 100vw, 3456px\" \/><\/a>Watermelon is by far my favorite summer time fruit.\u00a0 I love it! It&#8217;s very cool and refreshing and perfectly sweet.\u00a0 On a hot day it can nourish and rehydrate a body, what a perfect little fruit!<\/p>\n<p>All I ever did with watermelon was chop it up and eat it straight.\u00a0 I know some like to sprinkle it with a little bit of salt but that sort of ruined the sweetness for me.\u00a0 All I wanted was a perfect piece of watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I had watermelon salsa was a recent dinner outing with my husband.\u00a0 I was totally skeptical about the taste.\u00a0 I thought it would be weird, especially since I like my watermelon left alone.\u00a0 But I gave it a try and fell in love immediately. In my head I was already starting to think of ways that I could recreate this at home.\u00a0 The next time we went grocery shopping, I bought a huge watermelon and the first thing I did was make salsa with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea&#8217;s Watermelon Salsa<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2C Finely chopped watermelon (slightly smaller than bite size)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 a jalapeno seeded and finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2TBSP of red onion finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1TBSP of cilantro finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>The juice of 1\/2 a lime<\/li>\n<li>Small pinch of kosher salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combine all ingredients in a bowl and let sit for about 5 minutes before serving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand if you&#8217;re concerned with the complexity of this recipe but I urge you to still give it a try. <img src='\/images\/wink.gif' alt=';)' \/><\/p>\n<p>Both my husband and I loved this salsa! It was refreshing from the watermelon, yet the jalapeno and red onion gave it a little bit of depth and savoriness.\u00a0 Not too much, and it wasn&#8217;t overpowering, which was exactly what I was looking for.\u00a0 I wanted the watermelon to shine, not be hidden behind stronger flavored ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>This recipe does not make a huge batch. My husband and I were able to finish it off in one sitting.\u00a0 Obviously you&#8217;ll have to play around and up the ingredients if making this for a party. Even if you aren&#8217;t making this for a party I still urge you to make a huge batch because it&#8217;s that damn good.\u00a0 We ate it with chips and we also ate it straight up as a side dish to dinner.\u00a0 My husband adored this dish and kept raving about it.<\/p>\n<p>If you like watermelon and are looking for different things you can do with it, give this recipe a try.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have fun guys and remember, always play with your food! Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon is by far my favorite summer time fruit.\u00a0 I love it! It&#8217;s very cool and refreshing and perfectly sweet.\u00a0 On a hot day it can nourish and rehydrate a body, what a perfect little fruit! All I ever did with watermelon was chop it up and eat it straight.\u00a0 I know some like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}