Watermelon is the quintessential summer food for me.
I eat copious amounts of watermelon all summer long because I think it’s so refreshing in hot weather.
Another reason I love watermelon: it’s so affordable! For about $5, you get so many pounds of fruit, and that is not true for some of my other summer fruit favorites, such as berries.
Incidentally, the half watermelon in the picture is sitting in a treasure house bowl. I do normally cover half melons with my handy-dandy silicone lid, but this is a mini watermelon from Hungry Harvest, and the bowl was a perfect size for it.
Treasures from the abandoned house are all around me. 🙂
Definitely watermelon! I pride myself on picking good ones. Corn on the cob, too–my mom used to stop at a farm stand and pick up a dozen ears and that, with buttered bread and sliced tomatoes, was dinner some nights.
My immediate thought was garden tomatoes, although actually, the glut of tomatoes really comes in the fall. But The First Tomato is always in the summer, and it is also the most exciting one.
In New York, it was mulberries. And strawberries. And sweet corn. And peaches from the orchard up the road.
I do miss the produce in New York . . .
For me, it’s cherries. In the west, we get fresh-picked cherries from the Okanagan Valley at decent prices. In years when the harvest is particularly good, I will make a jar or two of vodka-preserved cherries to extend the love a little longer.
I love watermelon too, but in Central New York, a summer staple is Salt Potatoes. Small potatoes boiled with salt and topped with melted butter. They were invented here by the Irish Salt mine workers who would bring potatoes for lunch, and they are enjoyed all year but especially in the summer.
Here in Ohio, I’d have to say sweet corn. But I also look forward to garden tomatoes, and raspberries from my garden.
I LOVE corn on the cob. Whoo boy. I will drive a fair distance for good corn and will likely do so this summer despite the cost of gasoline. Gulp.
Vine ripened tomatoes that smell and taste like summer. I can eat a perfectly ripe tomato like an apple.
Fragrant peaches that drip juice down your chin.
Bliss.
Anything I can pick from asparagus to berries to corn to apples.
Brandywine tomatoes. When and if I find one I will feel I have found summer’s prize.
Strawberries & blueberries-we pick them locally in summer & they are just delicious!