Strawberries & Honeydew With Lemon Sugar & Mint:

21.05.2014

Helene Dujardin
(Senior Editor)

Feels cherish Summer season is officially here in the South. Don’t let the calendar fool you! I spent my birthday final week in the firm of the man I name my surrogate brother, chef John Ondo, and a personnel of total strangers on the seaside whereas doing a food photography and cooking workshop. Neatly, we had been strangers to every diverse for about 5 minutes. Nothing cherish about a nibbles he had engrossing for us and a glass of wine to fracture down the ice and design everyone portion a comely giggle and an even story.

The workshop used to be an colossal success in my guide. Between listing assignments and down times, everyone walked away with a special viewpoint on their very have photography and cooking. We ate well, loved the sunshine and the warmth and welcomed the rain and decrease temperatures sooner or later. It gave me the different to display college students why shooting in the rain consistently gave me the greatest pleasure. The electrical energy in the sunshine, the doable of pushing your digital camera settings and re-programming your mind to search out the surprising.

I walked away with new chums, new connections, plans for future workshops that leave me with a skip and a hop in my step. Repeatedly something that keeps pushing me forward. On an aspect display, we maintain about a spots originate for the workshop I’m doing in Atlanta in about a weeks! Crucial aspects HERE.

Getting back from workshops is consistently troublesome. Let’s face it, they require quite so much of planning and “on” time. It takes about a naps and a few prolonged nights to find my interior clock re-adjusted. In these situations I consistently rely on the food on my plate to give me the sustenance valuable to re-enter fact.

With the warmth, my palate craves the fresh flavors of candy fruits. A meal consistently stop with something candy, normally a sq. of chocolate or fruit compote on yogurt in the winter and substantial fruit salads in the summertime. Perfect now, the farmers market abounds with local shining pink strawberries. We’ve been including them to every little thing, including inexperienced salads basically.

The combo of honeydew melon and strawberries is consistently a winning one for us. We comely sliced a bunch for dessert and sprinkled our plates with lemon juice, lemon rubbed sugar and fresh mint. Dapper, gentle and well-organized refreshing. The roughly cakes that helps my physique and tips feel reset. It’s basically so easy to manage and consistently a success with our chums.

Strawberries & Honeydew With Lemon Sugar & Mint:

Serves 4 to 6

Substances:

1 pound strawberries, hulled

1/4 to 1/2 medium honeydew

one lemon

1/4 cup sugar

3-4 sprigs of mint

Directions:

Thinly sever the strawberries and situation them in a non reactive bowl. Remove the skin from the melon and take away the seeds. Cut it into skinny slices and add to the strawberries.

Zest the lemon and add to the sugar in a little bowl. Rub the sugar with your fingertips to free up its pure oil. Juice the lemon and toss it with the strawberries and honeydew. Spoon the fruits onto a substantial platter and sprinkle with the sugar and mint leaves. Luxuriate in appropriate away…