If there’s one food I eat more often than watermelon, it’s ice cream. At any given time, there’s at least three half-gallon containers in my freezer. And even though sherbet is technically not ice cream (it’s got less milk fat), I was still pretty psyched when I found this recipe for watermelon … [Read more...]

Like most proverbs, this quote has a deeper meaning. My guess is that it’s supposed to be a lesson in not biting off more than you can chew. Like carrying two watermelons under one arm. It sounds like a simple task, but you might end up dropping a watermelon, and then you’ve got a split watermelon … [Read more...]

Spring arrived last week, at least according to the calendar and the weather guy on my local news, but I don’t really consider it spring until a bin full of watermelon shows up in the produce aisle of my grocery store. I snapped the photo above on Saturday. When I spotted it, my face lit up like … [Read more...]

Last month, I chose one of the carvings featured on the National Watermelon Promotion Board’s website and tackled it myself. The result was something resembling a football helmet. Considering the extent of my watermelon carving experience though, it wasn’t a bad effort. It was fun, so I’m going … [Read more...]

Sometimes I come across news that seems too weird to be true. Like the time I read in our local newspaper about my uncle Marcus getting married and I thought to myself, “There’s no way any woman would marry him! This news has to be fake!” It wasn’t fake. He got married later that year to a very nice … [Read more...]