Happy National Watermelon Day! Cheers!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately and my head hits overload every once in a while. Sometimes it seems like there is just so much pressure and unknowns to consider. The future is like this eerily blank canvas that I have no choice but to paint on. It may end up a big blob of mess or it could be an art piece, but either way I’m holding the brush and it’s up to me. Please tell me everyone has these kind of days.

Well, on days like those it’s nice to make simple recipes that don’t require much difficulty but still take up my time and keep my head busy. Sometimes I just need that to keep from over-thinking everything.

These slushies have a bit of summer fruit, a bit of winter fruit, and some spring fresh mint so I guess they are kind of an all season drink. They will cool you down if it’s summer or they’ll make you think of summer heat when you make them during the winter.

I took way too long trying to photograph these because, that’s right, I was over-thinking things and all of the beautiful slush melted into a flat looking drinks. Just imagine them with mounds of slush on top for me because that’s what they did look like.

I made them with raw sugar and even used that to make pretty rims on the cups. I also used frozen watermelon that I froze over the summer. It was mostly seedless but not quite so I still had a few seeds in these slushies but the kids didn’t mind just spitting them out. I heard a rumor once that watermelon seeds are poisonous so I looked it up and found some people that actually recommend eating them because they are healthy. I’m not really sure about that but I promise that you won’t grow a watermelon in your belly if, like me, you fail to catch all of the seeds. My brother-in-law said that I should spike these and I thought I’d mention that you can if you want to I just don’t live around people who are big on drinking and I’m not old enough yet.

As always, the recipe is available upon request. The first request gets an upvote.

ALL CONTENT IS MINE AND ORIGINAL! All of these food photos were taken with my Nikon D5300 and my favorite Lens, the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. You can find out more in my INTRO POST. And by the way, my intro post did a huge $0.21

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