{"id":27388,"date":"2021-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:14:31","slug":"foodie-fridays-watermelon-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/foodie-fridays-watermelon-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodie Fridays: Watermelon Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/watermelon-salad-today-tease-180702-1024x538.jpeg\" alt class=\"wp-image-13234\" width=\"516\" height=\"271\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>If there is one fruit the screams summer to me, it\u2019s watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>I have fond memories of summer picnics, seed spitting contests and fancy fruit baskets carved out of watermelons.<\/p>\n<p>Grab one today at the store (now seedless varieties are available!) and whip up this tasty watermelon salad. This is a very refreshing and great light summer salad \u2013 especially when you bought the watermelon and need to use it up!&nbsp; Watermelons are not only high in vitamins A and C as well as lycopene \u2013 the carotenoid found in tomatoes. Actually, 1 cup of watermelon has the amount of lycopene that is found in 2 tomatoes.<\/p>\n<h2>Watermelon Salad<\/h2>\n<p>Serves 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prep time: 10 min.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 cups chopped watermelon \u2013 \u00be\u201d cubes<\/li>\n<li>1 cup chopped cucumber \u2013 \u00bc\u201d chunks<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup crumbled Feta<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbs. chopped fresh Mint<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp. Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Procedure: &nbsp;Combine all ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a commercially prepared Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing that you like, you can use that.&nbsp; Otherwise, make your own with 1 part balsamic vinegar to 2 parts olive oil, salt, and pepper to taste.&nbsp; So for 2 Tbs. of dressing, that would be 2 tsp. of vinegar to 4 tsp. of olive oil.&nbsp; Best served when the watermelon is chilled!<\/p>\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.athenos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.athenos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/2021\/08\/foodie-fridays-watermelon-salad\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one fruit the screams summer to me, it\u2019s watermelon. I have fond memories of summer picnics, seed spitting contests and fancy fruit baskets carved out of watermelons. Grab one today at the store (now seedless varieties are available!) and whip up this tasty watermelon salad. This is a very refreshing and great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45960,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions\/45960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}