I didn’t plan this. Just needed a cooling lunch, something different from my usual summer salad. So I grabbed a big sweet watermelon, sliced it open, and kept thinking about how weird it felt to blend something so juicy and crystalline into soup. Then I remembered that time I stood in a crowded market in … Read more
Forget Tomatoes, Think Melon I only realized how bored I was with regular gazpacho once I swapped out the red tomatoes for ripe watermelons. That burst of cold, sweet juice doesn’t just feel good. It spreads through your mouth like a silent alarm—wake up, this is summer at its peak and nothing’s pretending to be … Read more
Made this when the heat was just relentless. No plan, just grabbed the biggest watermelon I could find, thrown into the blender. It’s not the usual cold soup with tomato and cucumber. No, it’s softer, almost like biting into a frozen dollop of the sweetest, ripest watermelon. That faint whisper of basil mixes with the … Read more
Most people wouldn’t think of blending watermelon with tomatoes and peppers. It sounds weird, maybe even wrong. But hold on—there’s a moment in that first sip where the sweetness isn’t just sugar. It’s that little burst of cool liquid—almost like someone squeezed fresh watermelon right into your mouth with a splash of vinegar. I’ve always … Read more
Nothing about this soup is what you’d expect. No roasted peppers, no garlic-heavy base, no bread crumbs muddled in. It’s just watermelon. Blended until smooth enough to drip down your chin, chilled so it’s more a sneaky burst of hydration than a meal. Looks like fruit, but tastes like a whisper of garden mint and … Read more
