Watermelon cake- Tarta de sandía

Back in my cooking days I did this watermelon cake. It was fun to do...just a fun way to eat watermelon to bring to a party or even as a summer cake for a birthday. (Mind you, this is not substitute of a proper cake....come on....)

But I loved the idea, so I went ahead and did it. It was pretty fun. As always....not so easy to do in real life. But a challenge. All you need is:

• A watermelon
• A heck of a good knife/sword???
• A marker.
• Measuring spoons made or metal or an ice-cream scooper.

Pretty self explantory, follow the pics and you will succeed. OH! by the way, this recipe is from this blog. By the way I loooooooooooooove her blog. Thank you Bri, you brighten our world with your blog and recipes! 

1. Mark the lines to not go off track.

2. Now cut it up in slices, like a cake.

3. Scoop out watermelon and place them on top of cake. 

  

HAPPY PARTY or HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Mint to top it off!  It's fun to bring to a party for sure!

limones de colores

Una receta divertida que saqué de este blog.

Perfectos para cuando estes aburrido este verano....o para cuando tengas invitados y quieras hacer una limonada original, o agua con limon original....claro, con una jarra transparente. 

Solo necesitas.......

• Limones
• Colorantes Wilton.

Superfaciles: pon una gotita de nada en varios cuencos

Yo probé estos colores: naranja, azul, verde, rosa y morado

En mi opinion el rosa y el verde es el mejor...ahora pon las rodajas en el agua y dejalos por varias horas (como 3 horas).

El azul luego quedó un poco raro...

Y el morado también...pero el rosa mola mucho

Estos son los colorantes que usé...y otros más

Tachán!!!!! por la mañana...

Habian quedado guays, y ahora los puedes congelar y guardar para ocasiones especiales. Ya se que son una chorrada, pero a veces las chorradas molan mucho! :) Recuerda: verde y rosa, los mejores colores, más vibrantes y que más pegan con el amarillo cítrico.

Strawberry sangria

Stacey and I made this great strawberry sangria the other day that I loved! Strawberries are about to disappear because summer is coming fast!

TIP: buy some and freeze some for the rest of the summer.



 Ingredients:

• 1 litre of wine
• 1/2 litre of gaseosa.
• 3 cups of strawberries
• 2 lemoms
• 2 oranges
• 4 spoonfuls of sugar
• 1 stick of cinammon.

1. Clean the strawberries and cut them up in pieces and blend them in a hand blender. 3 cups.

yum! it looked like tomato sauce....but better taste

2. Add the wine to the strawberries.

and take a photo of the situation, so cool! 

3. Add the juice of one lemon and the juice of one orange.

4. Cut up the other orange and the other lemon in slices and throw them in the pitcher.

5. Put the cinammon stick and the slice of 1 orange and one lemon.

6. Add the sugar and some ice, ice REALLY HELPS!

 7. let it sit for 10 minutes.

8. Voila! awesome sangria. enjoy.

Stacey and I rocked it again....and we had some pimientos del padrón with it  :) 

Happy Reformation Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Pumpkin, yes to the church!!

Yep, not Halloween. The 31st of October, is celebrated by christians because it is the day when Martin Luther nailed the 95 thesis on the door of the Wittenberg castle and began the Reformation of the church.
What a day!!! A day of hope and joy and new birth!!! And it is my birthday too! this is what I am bringing to work tomorrow to celebrate with workmates. Pumpkins can celebrate life too! not just awful death like in Halloween. :)

Necesitas: 6 mandarinas, 2 regalizes rojos, 5 moras, 1 regaliz negro y un palito de apio

watermelon can fit in your fridge

 Watermelon can be awkward sometimes, so heavy, and where do i put it in the fridge? My american friends have shown me that there is another way to cut up watermelon that is not the usual rodaja that we have here in Spain. American dice it up and just store it in a tupperware. As simple as that, you can forget the hassle to cut a rodaja every time you want one and make a mess in the kitchen every time..

I confess I like it much better that way....since I live by myself I havent bought watermelon because of storage reasons....why did i not think about this before?? Learning from other cultures is surely a good thing!!!