The recipe below is actually part of a larger recipe for lobster spring rolls, which can be found on the National Watermelon Promotion Board website. I omitted the spring rolls, not because there’s anything wrong with them (they actually sound pretty awesome), but I just figured they were a little … [Read more...]

I’m not even sure why I’m spoiling this blog entry by adding words to it, because the two photos above do a pretty good job on their own of communicating the awesomeness of this cake. This miracle of modern baking was created by the Divine Cake Company of Knoxville, TN. To say that the artists … [Read more...]

I’ve written in the past about how fans of a certain professional football team in Canada have made a tradition of wearing watermelon helmets on game day. The team has no known connections to watermelon, although the team color is a very watermelon-like shade of green, so I’m not really sure what … [Read more...]

For me, dessert at a football party usually consists of one last slice of pepperoni pizza, a handful of cheese curls and a side of ranch dressing (just in case). But if the party served something like today’s recipe, I’d probably skip the side of ranch and opt for this instead. WATERMELON … [Read more...]

The other day my wife and I were talking about holiday traditions we can carry over from our childhoods into our new family and I mentioned my family’s tradition of putting an orange in the toe of our stockings every year (among many other odds and ends). The tradition made me realize that the … [Read more...]