Watermelon Season

Watermelon season is finally here.

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Tomato season has been here a couple of weeks, although just barely.  Despite the heat, it has not been a good season for tomatoes.  I wonder if that has something to do with the incredible amounts of rain.

In the photo:  Watermelon and Tomato salad.  A summer favorite, not as elegantly photographed as in The Elements of Taste.  And in this instance, not exactly true to the recipe as I was forced to make do.  Still it was wonderful.

Sweet, crunchy, with a touch of a burn in the aftertaste…. this is not watermelon the way I had it as a child. And the watermelon reduction which makes this salad proves very versatile. Somehow we always have a little more watermelon than we can eat.