Remembering back in the day

I just love that phrase "back in the day".....

but hey smells, and tastes and experiences sometimes bring me back to my childhood during springtime and early summer that I want to relive over and over...and for those who know me...I remain "child-like" (and sometimes childish)...however...

I still crave something simple...    remember when you'd enjoy a big slice of watermelon and you'd sprinkle some fresh salt on it and it would just burst with that tangy yet sweet flavor that just took over your tongue?  I do...

BUT I grew up (arguably) and although my tastes have changed, my lust for delicious simple foods have not...

so now I take and slice the watermelon into cubes.....and I drizzle aged balsamic vinegar over them and am instantly taken back to childhood...  when is the last time you got to enjoy your youth again? ...........................   Well that's just to long....

T.

Yum!  I just made a watermelon, blueberry, balsamic and mint salad - SO GOOD!! 

Watermelon was my favorite summer thing growing up with lots of salt - thanks for the memories.  I upgraded from regular ole table salt to some coarse sea salt - yumm-o!

Watermelon with salt????????????????????????????????

that to me sounds so very weird, I have never heard of that.

My childhood fav.  was witting on the back step at my Grammas dunking fresh from the patch rhubarb into a bowl of sugar..........YUMMY!!!!

as an adult I still like fresh rhubard only peeled and cut up with a light sprinkling of salt.

Take care,
Michelle

hi michelle
i must admit i remember the rhubarb and sugar too but now that i've heard of watermelon and salt i think it's something i might try.  do you think it's because we are from Canada we've never heard of it?
cheryl in oshawa

Thanks T....and my fellow Canuks...I've never heard of salt and watermelon either!!!  Watermelon is a treat on a really hot, muggy day....and ruhbarb, with lots of sugar in a pie!!! or stewed.....Patti K.

Well i must admit that I haven't eaten much rhubarb, only sampled a few rhubabr pies now and then...hehe

BUT you ladies may not have tried something else that is wonderful...and yes I know it's strange..   Boiled peanuts!  Yes...  and they are so good!  Check them out on the web, lots and lots of people enjoy them.

Back to the watermelon with salt...  as a child in the New Orlenas area, I was introduced to all foods that are southern.....  most everyone would sprinkle just a pinch of salt on their watermelon and enjoy the contrasting tastes of sweet and sour.  Now that I'm older, the tastes are still there, but I know what adding aged balsamic vinegar can do to a nice piece of watermelon that the old salt couldn't....ether way, I'm still a kid eating tha****ermelon on my front porch.....

T.

 down here in the south watermelon with salt is the norm

Growing up in SW Louisiana & East Texas, you didn't have watermelon at any function without a salt shaker. I miss Sugar Town Mellon's(from a small town in Louisiana) from back when I was a kid. Here in Oklahoma they have some pretty good melons, but not as good as those years ago....
My mission tomorrow is to find a water melon!

If you like watermelon with salt, then you have to try these 2 things.
cucumber with lime juice and salt ....yummy and my favorite mango w/ chili powder. Thsi is the bomb. Who would have thought it.

Ok I have to know where from SW Louisiana are you from?  I grew up in Cameron, now live in the Sulphur/Carlyss area.