This salad is so easy and really is a refreshing alternative to a green salad. I bought a personal size watermelon earlier in the week and I decided I would try and make a salad with it. I've had salads with watermelon before but I'd never made one. Dean was skeptical but I think I won him over in the end. Salad to him means something with lettuce! The recipe I found was Martha Stewart but it's uncharacteristically easy for one of her recipes!
Watermelon Salad with Feta and Basil
6 cups cubed watermelon
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/2 cup basil leaves cut into thin strips
Course salt and pepper
4 oz feta, broken into big pieces (about a cup)
I cut up my watermelon into large cubes, added the rest of the ingredients and there you have it. A nice cool salad for a hot summer day.
***On a side note, if you aren't growing fresh herbs, you really should try it. I'm growing basil, mint, Italian parsley and chives right now. They are easy to grow and it's so rewarding to go out and harvest the herbs for the recipes right out of my own garden.
Enjoy this lovely weather!
