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Watermelon Tomato Salad

Although summer is almost gone, watermelons are still in the market. Everyone loves watermelon, who doesn´t? It almost quenches our thirst especially on a hot day...

But, what else can we make out of watermelon?

Well, a tart that I always bake for dinner for which I used fruits gave me a thought... Why not make a salad out of watermelon?

So, here is that idea, proven to be really yummy and delicious!

Watermelon Tomato Salad

What you need for 2 persons:

2 cups of thinly sliced seeded watermelon

2 medium tomatoes, quartered

fresh basil leaves cut into strips

few whole basil leaves for topping

spring onions cut into strips

1 small red onions cut thinly into rings

6 slices of smoked ham or Prosciutto

For the vinaigrette:

2 tbsp table vinegar,

2 tbsp dark aceto balsamico

1 tsp worcester sauce

4 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp sugar (or 1 tbsp stevia powder - sugar substitute)

salt & pepper

1 tsp ground garlic (optional)

Preparation

Arrange the watermelon slices and the quartered tomatoes as well as the pieces of prosciutto in a platter alternately so that they´re well distributed in place topping them with strips of spring onions, red onion rings, strips of basil.. You can also prepare 2 separate plates and divide the ingredients as well as the vinaigrette for each share.

Mix the vinaigrette ingredients well, adjusting the seasoning according to your taste... The taste should be a bit of sweet and sour... then, distribute the vinaigrette by means of a spoon all over the platter and garnish the top with whole basil leaves...

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Container Gardening

This is our sundeck and I´ve converted it into my pot garden a couple of years back. You must have read about container gardening becoming popular nowadays. Well, I´m also into this and have been planting ever since salad greens, aubergines (eggplants), sweet Paprikas (bell peppers) to name a few..

Year by year, our SUMMER has really become unpredictable... as of this writing, we´re experiencing small showers right now in Vienna.

As I said before, this terrace is protected by three walls and it´s very very hot in summer, so it´s very ideal to grow vegetables. Unlike in the backyard, there are no slugs that destroy the plants..

This year, I sowed my own chinese cabbage seeds from last year´s harvest.. I´m telling you, it´s fun to see how the seeds develop into plants so fast.

This is one of two bell peppers I´m growing this season... I normally sow the seeds myself, but we came back from holiday so late in June. I got them from the garden center when it was still small.

I also got salad green newbies. These lettuce here are already 10 days old and they´ve grown a bit bigger now as it becomes warmer each day.

The celery here came from my kitchen, I can´t believe that they would still grow once the stalks were cut. I simply replanted this in a pot and soon new stalks and leaves began sprouting... Someone told me that it should grow infinitely...uhhhhhm, let´s wait & see.

Year in year out, parsley is one plant I never miss in container gardening, and I also sowed seeds this year. Hopefully, I´m going to have plenty of harvest too! :-)

This is an exciting experiment... my old potatoes got plenty of slips and I cut and put each in 4 cracker containers... and now as you see, it´s growin... growin... growing!!!

Let´s wait and see if the replanting of the potatoes a success. It will be...... when the fruits are there to get harvested, so please keep your fingers crossed!!!

Parsley, I got the newbies from the garden center ans am still waiting for the sowed seeds to come out.

Giant Squash.... I got two of them and I hope that I wouldn´t run out of space because the sundeck is really really that small. I made the raised bed out of 4 concrete hollow blocks... Last year, I planted Bitter Melon or ampalaya and it was truly a success...

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