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bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 29, 2008
09:33 AM Post #5482488
| thank you so much for your article. I, too, have family recipes for Watermelon Rind, coming from my father's home in Blue Mountain, Mississippi. Oh the memories you've brought back to me of wonderful times!
But the modern cultivars of watermelon have almost no white rind at all, and I've stopped making them. I'm wondering if anyone has an heirloom watermelon seed I could try growing - I'm tired of looking at the white of the rind and giving up because it's so thin.
For us it was watermelon preserves, jarred and sent home with us from Aunt Orene, to be eaten at Pappy's house (she was a maiden aunt who stayed behind at home on the farm to care for her father) on her incredible yeast rolls, or at home on my mom's best biscuits. Southern eating at it's best!!! |
wind
Mount Laurel, NJ
(Zone 6b)
August 29, 2008
06:27 PM Post #5484465
| Great article ~ thank you for sharing your recipe with us!
This is the first season I've ever been made aware of using watermelon rind in any recipe. I'm really interested in trying it now that I know it has health benefit of citrulline. I look forward to making your recipe, we have never tried them before.
bonjon, I was wondering how about preserves would be. It sounds like it is good! I just noticed a recipe for it in a canning book the other day. The recipe used the watermelon rind and cooked it with ginger, sugar and lemon; I just may have to try that as well :)
~Diana |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 29, 2008
08:40 PM Post #5485004
| wind - it wasn't my recipe, you replied to the wrong thread. go back to the articles and double check. |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
August 29, 2008
08:57 PM Post #5485065
| bonjon,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I'm glad that it brought back good memories for you. Yes, I thought that the white rind has shrunk also. Guess someone thought no one liked it. So, were the preserves rinds chopped up like marmalade, chunks like chunky salsa, thick like jam or thin like jelly. Sounds like Aunt Orene was an accomplished cook.
Diana,
Thank you again for all of your kind comments on the watermelon rind article. Please let me know if you like the recipe. And, thanks again for the link!
April
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bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 29, 2008
09:20 PM Post #5485222
| well, I'll be trying it soon - going to farmers market tomorrow!
actually, it looks very very much like your recipe only without the vinegar and slightly smaller chunks. And if they were still crispy, they hadn't been cooked enough. (I know because I've done that twice!) |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
August 29, 2008
09:55 PM Post #5485369
| Thanks; I think I need to try that. |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 30, 2008
02:26 PM Post #5487475
| well, tell ya what, that box of stuff hasn't come to light yet after our last move four years ago, not too surprising since I had emergency surgery after that and have never gone through 300 boxes! but I'm in the process of going through them now for a garage sale. Hoping to find something to sell, in this economy, it's necessary.
If I find it, I'll post it here. |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
August 30, 2008
08:24 PM Post #5488652
| Thanks...I hope you sell a few houses asap.
April |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 30, 2008
09:29 PM Post #5488895
| LOL 0 my BIC status is current, but I haven't sold a thing since my emergency surgery. Can't hardly climb stairs, and our area is so hilly, with mostly 2 level homes, so I gave up. I keep up my BIC status, keep thinking I'll use it again. With our changing laws, that status is worth big bucks now. |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
August 30, 2008
11:53 PM Post #5489506
| Wow, bonjon.
Sorry to hear that. Must be difficult. Hope you get feeling better soon.
April |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
August 31, 2008
03:33 PM Post #5491247
| your wish granted - I feel great, until I start climbing stairs or walking uphill, then I quickly tire, and my groin, point of operation, aches and aches, and finally gives out by the 3rd house. I'm going to the YMCA to exercise it, but it just gives out. So I've switched to gardening, and selling what I grow. |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
September 01, 2008
12:18 AM Post #5492937
| Gardening is usually less stress than real estate. Most people don't really understand what hard work real estate is. :-) |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
September 01, 2008
01:28 PM Post #5494470
| The cut-throat of it around here has just grown old. And I'm incredibly intelligent, great at the research and sales parts, but I don't fit the local "high priced call girl" image of what they all seem to want an agent to be. If I wanted to wear stilettos for a living, I could have made a lot more $$ than real estate provides! |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
September 01, 2008
03:56 PM Post #5495028
| Sounds like you are a great Realtor! I wish more agents were "incredibly intelligent, great at the research and sales parts". Sigh. :-)
April |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
September 01, 2008
09:47 PM Post #5496470
| would you believe I've had more senior big sales agents try to cheat me, or mislead, probably thought I was new to real estate, not knowing I had practiced on the west coast. |
Aunt_A
Tulsa, OK
September 01, 2008
09:52 PM Post #5496495
| So from the West Coast to the East Coast. :-) You've seen some lovely countrysides.
Do you live near where Hannah might rough up the area?
April |
bonjon
Raleigh, NC
September 01, 2008
10:20 PM Post #5496651
| haven't looked where Hannah is -
we routinely get hurricanes. They are actually a fair amount of our yearly rainfall, and the fact NC didn't get any major storms the last two years has contributed to our drought. At this point, we'd love a Cat 1 hurricane!!! |
