It's Summer Folks!

Mr. Tooth and I purchased a 15 lb watermelon at the market the other day. It was post-Fourth of July sale time and corn and melons could be had on the cheap. Things have been quite busy at Casa Del Dientes and the giant (relatively speaking of course...) green dinosaur egg sat on the sideboard, lonely and forgotten. Until this morning!

This watermelon of ours is a lovely specimen on the outside, lime and kelly green stripes zigging and zagging across it's zaftig curves. But the real question is: How will it taste?

Growing up my family had small garden in front of our house and while I was most interested in the strawberries and the sunflowers we sometimes grew watermelons too. I learned the hard way that you can overwater these things. They get huge and mealy, tasting like styrofoam. My elderly neighbor. Lorita, would try her best to turn these mistakes into something more palatable by pickling the rinds. I recommend using any leftover rinds you have into pickles if you are a pickling type of person. So darn good.

But back to the melon at hand. I hacked it open and tentatively took my first bite. It was a good egg. Juicy and sweet, tasting the way July should. Just right.