My Favorite Summer Time Recipes

Watermelon Cosmopolitan
1-1/2 ounces vodka
3/4 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 ounce Roses lime juice
2 ounces watermelon juice
Pour all ingredients over ice and shake in tin until ice cold. Strain into chilled martini glass and garnish with watermelon ball.

Melon With Prosciutto Ham and Grilled Chicken
3 tablespoons fresh-squeezed orange juice
1 tablespoon raspberry vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh chopped mint leaves
Mix all ingredients and let chill for at least one hour.
For individual salad:
4 thin slices cantaloupe, rind removed
4 thin slices honeydew melon, rind removed
4 thin slices watermelon, rind and seeds removed
3 thin slices prosciutto ham
1 grilled chicken breast*, cut into thin slices Salad greens in bite-size pieces
Arrange greens, melons, ham and chicken on a large salad plate and drizzle with vinaigrette.
*For grilled chicken breast:
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Grill chicken breast. While grilling, baste chicken with mixture of honey, oil and lemon juice.

Filled Watermelon Basket
1 large oblong watermelon
1 cantaloupe
1 honeydew melon
1 pineapple
2 fresh peaches (or nectarines)
2 cups fresh blueberries (or other berries) mint leaves for garnish honey-lime sauce (recipe follows)
Cut off lengthwise top third of watermelon (save top for other purpose). With ball cutter, cut balls from larger section of watermelon. Remove seeds from balls and refrigerate. Remove remaining pulp from melon to make a basket. Drain, and if necessary, cut thin slice from bottom so shell will stand upright. Refrigerate. Cut balls from cantaloupe and honeydew melons (about 3 cups of each) and remove rind and core from pineapple. Cut pineapple into bite-sized pieces. Mix with cantaloupe and honeydew balls; cover and refrigerate. Just before serving, peel and slice peaches. Drain melon balls and pineapple chunks. Combine all fruit in large bowl. Toss with honey-lime sauce. Pour fruit into watermelon shell and garnish with mint leaves.
Note: top third of watermelon can be carved into shape of a basket handle.
Honey-Lime Sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
3 tablespoons honey
1/2 cup white wine (or ginger ale)
Mix all ingredients together thoroughly.

Thomas Alicandro's Chilled Summer Melon Soup
6 ripe strawberries
3 ripe pears, cored, peeled and chopped

3 slices watermelon, peeled, seeded and cubed
1/2 cantaloupe, peeled, seeded and cubed
1/2 honeydew melon, peeled, seeded and cubed
1/2 cup orange juice

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