Christmas Piel De Sapo Melon Salad
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Serves: 2 as an entree or 4 as part of a spread
Ingredients Needed
- 275g/9.7ozs Piel de Sapo melon, cut into small, bite sized chunks
- 120g/4ozs stracciatella cheese
- 60g/2ozs (around half) Lebanese cucumber, sliced
- A dozen mint leaves
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Step 1 - Spread the stracciatella cheese on the base of a plate. Top with melon chunks. Add cucumber discs and mint leaves and serve.
Speaking of restaurants, I mentioned yesterday how we went to a weird restaurant. Sophia and I walked into a restaurant that I had heard about on social media. Granted it was mid afternoon when we went there but it was a Saturday and every other restaurant around it had quite a few people in it. The waitress ushered us into the dark rear of the restaurant but when we asked if we could sit in the brighter part she snapped., "They're reserved," gesturing to the 10 or so tables. We looked at each other and whispered, "All of them?".
We sat in a little corner and she slid some menus onto the table and pointed at the QR code gruffly and sauntered off. The menu was quite different to what we were expecting. We had both watched Squid Game and TikTokers had shown a few Squid Game items but in reality it was a fairly regular menu with 2 Squid Game items and some props outside. To make matters more confusing, the number 1 item was a fruit salad for $35 that did not look worth $35, hot chips were $18 and Tteokbokki was $40. We pressed the call button and waited. Five minutes passed then ten minutes. I got up to look for the waitress and she was on the other side of the bar a couple of metres away from us on her phone scrolling social media.
"I'm not feeling this place," I said to Sophia who agreed. We hadn't touched anything apart from the menus. Sophia had also looked up some more recent reviews which were 1 star and we slipped out. The waitress hadn't even noticed. We found a new place for lunch a few minutes walk away and at this hour it was full but we got a table straight away. Sometimes, you just have to cut and run!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you ever cut and run when you see the menu? And do you like eating melon?