Watermelon Granita

I love the espresso granita from the Zuni cookbook. It’s served with whipped cream to balance out the strong coffee flavor. This past summer, I made a watermelon/lime zest granita with a bit of fleur de sel. It was light and...

Watermelon granita. Great for the hot weather.

The best use of watermelon juice is the watermelon granita. It’s easy to make and extremely delicious, especially on a hot day, if the ice is a little loose and slurpy, not hard-frozen and dry. In fact, I often use it as a...

I make lots of granitas during the summer months and have had great success with strawberries, watermelon and lemons but can I do the same with bananas? I don’t have an ice cream maker and just use a simple syrup, lemon...

Make watermelon margaritas, smoothies or granita. Make candied watermelon skin. Serve watermelon w/ Feta or another really salty cheese. (Just a few thoughts on the subject.)

Forgot to post about this so it might be gone, but Monday night I had an amazing watermelon gelato at Milano. It brought out the aromatic aspects of the fruit, tasted almost herbal. If I’d been tasting it blind I might have...

I made a weatermelon granita that was a big hit: 4 cups or so of watermelon juice of 1 lemon about 2/3 cup sugar Squeeze the juice from the melon (I did this by hand over a mesh strainer) , add the lemon juice and sugar and stir to...

Watermelon granita. A great summertime dessert that is light and refreshing.

. Puree the watermelon w/ some sugar & lime juice, strain & freeze. You could even freeze them in ice cube trays. or make a granita..

Or, you can make a watermelon granita. To spruce up the flavor, add lime zest and a bit of fleur de sel.

Okay, this whole idea is weird, but it came to me in a dream and that makes it worth exploring, in my book. In my dream, my stepdaughter had perfected a recipe for watermelon/tomato sorbet by adding a small amount of mushroom;...

I made Zuni’s watermelon granita tonight and it was underwhelming, to say the least. It must have been something that I did wrong because I had their blood orange granita at the restaurant in June and it was magnificent. It...

Sketch has excellent watermelon granita. Their selection changes and though they’ve had it fairly consistently over the past few weeks you might want to call ahead and check. Personally, I prefer the sharlyn melon sorbet....

Hello 'hounds! (and Carb Lover, who is riveted by my iced dessert endeavors!) Well I’ve decided to branch out from my lactose-laden endeavors and make a fresh watermelon sorbet. I made it with Alton Brown’s recipe...