Best thing about Glen&Friends is that he puts the recipe down in the description box. No need to click links to see recipe. Simplicity has won over my heart and stomach. Fav cooking channel ❤️
@@bobbiusshadow6985 of course we eat tzatziki but we are talking about watermelon and feta here which is something we eat during the summer all the time in Greece.
Thank you for making these videos! I find it hard finding good videos on interesting vegetarian dishes, and I love when you make vegetarian accommodating dishes here. I'd personally love it if you made more of this type of recipe, and I'm sure there are many in the same boat as me. Thanks again for all the cooking and baking inspiration!
Other than your wonderful recipes....I think my favorite thing is that you don’t belabor anything by “making” us watch every single little step start to finish. Good on you!
I made this salad at home because I had had the feta and watermelon mixture before and I thought it would be awesome. It is awesome indeed. I also added my own twist and added some green grapes to mine. Goes really well with it. Nice idea Glen. This is something a lot of us can execute at home easily.
This is a staple in my house!! I add a bit of super thinly sliced red onions in it, but the rest is the same. I generally pair it with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing, but I'll give this lime one a try!
Watermelon/grapes & feta cheese is a tradional combination during Greek summer. Plus broken barley rusk bites drizzled with exra virgin olive oil into such a salad bowl. Some alternatives that I'd add into this summer salad pallete of yours: lemon juice-cured olives, crispy purslane leaves, mild salty caper berries along with thin slices of a juicy red onion would give a strong mediterranean air. Many thanx for your cooling proposal.
I worked for a beekeeper one summer in Manitoba. The honey was incredible. I'm jealous. I went to the Parkdale Market here in Ottawa and got some amazing cucumbers, but I don't have anything else to make this salad. I'll have to have my old standby chickpea salad, with added cucumbers.
I find it SO INTERESTING that cucumbers and watermelons are related! They are two of the only foods that I don't enjoy - and I never considered them being from the same family. With that information, it makes total sense as there are distinct flavor similarities in the two. Thanks for the info, and another excellent video!
Watermelon Salad is my favourite summer dish period. I’m not a huge fan of the basil so we leave that out and the dressing is usually just canola oil with salt and pepper but I’m going to try the lime and honey dressing next time we make it because that sounds like an amazing accompaniment to an amazing dish. Seriously or anyone who hasn’t tried it you definitely should. It’s fast and tastes amazing on a hot summer day.
I’ve made a version of this with arugula but no cucumber or basil and used a raspberry balsamic vinaigrette. It is quite good. I’m going to try this one also.
I've never seen smoked watermelon but i saw someone make a watermelon steak once. He just grilled it a bit but I've heard of people cooking thme down more and supposedly it gets a meat like quality and some people even say it can make a good mock tuna if properly seasoned.
I haven't had watermelon rind pickles in years! My husband's grandmother used to make them. They are so tasty. I never got the recipe from her. I'll be interested to see yours!
I make this salad in the summer. I add Kalamata olives, red onion, and i use lemon instead of lime. Basically I make a Greek salad substituting watermelon for the lettuce.
This recipe is very similar to this one I found 2 nights ago while making butter chicken: chick-pea salad combine canned chickpeas, diced cucumber, carrot, onion, tomatoes. Top with crushed pita chips, cilantro before serving. Dressing: yogurt, salt, paprika or pepper, diced green chillies if preferred hot, chopped or pureed mint and cilantro leaves. It is incredibly good with that mint + cilantro + yogurt dressing.
I'm loving the heat wave, I live in Washington and due to the smoke from the forest fires last year we didnt have a summer (smoke caused clouds to form so it was dry, smoggy, and cloudy all summer) and the year before we had a really short summer, and it's so cloudy here that we really only get 3 months of really nice weather. So this is basically the first nice warm sunny summer we've had in like 3 years and the first time in 3 years we've had a stretch of good weather as opposed to a day or 2 of good weather, a few days of clouds, then a day of good weather etc.
Bill in the Toronto area is has been feeling like 40+ Celsius; we count the humidity factor. You can cut the air with a knife some days it feels so humid.
Cucumbers, Melons and Squash are all closely related. You need to make sure you don't plant them too closely to each other or they'll end up cross-polinating! We accidentally grew a pumpkin plant last year, but the fruits didn't grow very well. I have a suspicion they'd crosspolinated with my cucumbers!
@@l.c.6282 i love living in the Pacific Northwest but its the same way over here. Since there are so many lakes and rivers, the ocean and bays, and the Puget Sound when it gets warm the humidity often shoots up. During a heatwave it feels more like Georgia then a place like Arizona. The other day it got about 35C and about 80% humidity (I'm not sure how that works out when you account for the humidity factor). Normally the cooler temperatures makes the air drop down and keeps things breezy but when it gets hot the air rises and keeps the breeze above the tree line so the air gets kind of hot and stagnant on the ground adding to the swampy feeling.
@@Charky_Creations I've had that happen before. If you plant zucchinis too close to pumpkins you can wind up with mutants and you never know how they'll turn out. One time I got mostly normal but yellow zucchinis and another time I got zucchinis with thick woody skins.
Glen, may I make a suggestion...look up something called watermelon konfyt on a South African recipe site. I think you will like it. Best eaten on fresh, white bread.
Around here watermelon salad is Cucumber, cut up Watermelon, peeled, cut into cubes Cucumber, cut up ½ cup crumbled feta cheese and one sweet onion cut thin, sometimes a half cup of strawberries
Didn't know you could pickle the rind. We always left the rind out in the garden. The butterflies would swarm it and what was left would break down and nourish the soil.
@@lilsuzq32 i drank milk and ate watermelon the other day and my stomach became a fermentation chamber. I'm not sure if the same would happen with cheese or yogurt though
When I was a kid, my dad had planted watermelons and cukes in the same patch and some of them cross pollinated, creating fat cucumbers with a slightly sweet, pale pink inside. I've heard that usually the cross pollination results in bitter hybrids. I guess we lucked out.
It’s nice to hear it that way. I’m Canadian and in my part of Canada, it’s mostly pronounced like North Americans do (bay-sil), but sometimes I hear bah-sil.
Thank you, a wonderful salad! But think next time I may add (as suggested elsewhere) a bit of onion. Or maybe even chives. Would also like to thank and congratulate you on the proper pronunciation of the aromatic herb 'basil' ( baz il ). Sorry, but a real pet peeve I have, is people saying basal ( baze il ), which actually is a part of anatomy. Thanks again.
Wow, the first recipe you've posted that, well, to me doesn't seem that appetizing. Not crazy about Watermelon #1 and Cucumbers, I could take 'em or leave 'em. I had pickled Watermelon rind once in the deep south and they can keep it down there ha ha. My 1st negative comment
@@EastSider48215 I live in a country with extremely sweet watermelons. Few years ago, I was in Miami, Florida. The watermelons that were being sold there were so tasteless, that this particular supermarket offered vanilla flavoured creamy dips to go with watermelon slices.
Best thing about Glen&Friends is that he puts the recipe down in the description box. No need to click links to see recipe. Simplicity has won over my heart and stomach. Fav cooking channel ❤️
watermelon with feta is the way we greeks roll ..Nice!
no tzatziki?
@@bobbiusshadow6985 of course we eat tzatziki but we are talking about watermelon and feta here which is something we eat during the summer all the time in Greece.
You're so cozy, guys! Cannot wait to rejoice with my wife and just to make every single recipe you made for her.
Perfect for a hot summer day!
Very refreshing salad! Mouthwatering.:D
Thank you for making these videos!
I find it hard finding good videos on interesting vegetarian dishes, and I love when you make vegetarian accommodating dishes here. I'd personally love it if you made more of this type of recipe, and I'm sure there are many in the same boat as me.
Thanks again for all the cooking and baking inspiration!
This salad is our new favourite thing!
Other than your wonderful recipes....I think my favorite thing is that you don’t belabor anything by “making” us watch every single little step start to finish. Good on you!
I made this tonight for dinner. It was AMAZING!
I love the top-down view of when you're putting the salad into the bowl!
I made this salad at home because I had had the feta and watermelon mixture before and I thought it would be awesome. It is awesome indeed. I also added my own twist and added some green grapes to mine. Goes really well with it. Nice idea Glen. This is something a lot of us can execute at home easily.
a wonderful salad - love it when I see it on a menu - now I will make this version myself
This is one of my favorite salads!
i love watermelon in salads... it makes me something of an outlier here in NZ.
Love the use of the beaker 😊
This is a staple in my house!! I add a bit of super thinly sliced red onions in it, but the rest is the same. I generally pair it with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing, but I'll give this lime one a try!
Watermelon/grapes & feta cheese is a tradional combination during Greek summer. Plus broken barley rusk bites drizzled with exra virgin olive oil into such a salad bowl.
Some alternatives that I'd add into this summer salad pallete of yours: lemon juice-cured olives, crispy purslane leaves, mild salty caper berries along with thin slices of a juicy red onion would give a strong mediterranean air.
Many thanx for your cooling proposal.
That’s looks absolutely delightful.
Love, love, love some sweet watermelon rind pickle! Can't wait! Salad looks yummy, too
I worked for a beekeeper one summer in Manitoba. The honey was incredible. I'm jealous. I went to the Parkdale Market here in Ottawa and got some amazing cucumbers, but I don't have anything else to make this salad. I'll have to have my old standby chickpea salad, with added cucumbers.
As promised, you said you'd do this. In Greece, people often eat just watermelon and feta as a summer treat,
Thats how I do it. Watermelon and Feta, nothing else.
I happened upon this on acciden oncet, when my Greek salad encroached upon the watermelon on my plate. Now I do it on purpose!
Did a very similar salad a few days ago and used radish onstead of cucumber ... Yum!
I find it SO INTERESTING that cucumbers and watermelons are related! They are two of the only foods that I don't enjoy - and I never considered them being from the same family. With that information, it makes total sense as there are distinct flavor similarities in the two. Thanks for the info, and another excellent video!
I work at a greenhouse and it was so hot this week. How refreshing that looks. Thank you!
I am making this on the weekend! Looks delicious!
Looks so refreshing. And I have mint and basil in my garden!
Wow! you have mint and basil in your garden? Amazing!
I love this salad with a balsamic reduction for the dressing
My mom used to make Watermelon pickles. they were one of my summer favorites.
did she use the rinds or the red juicy part?
I got that summertime, summertime salaaad, su-su-summertime, summertime salaaaad :D Looks delicious!
One of my favorite summertime salads is watermelon with fresh mozzarella and mint.
Watermelon Salad is my favourite summer dish period. I’m not a huge fan of the basil so we leave that out and the dressing is usually just canola oil with salt and pepper but I’m going to try the lime and honey dressing next time we make it because that sounds like an amazing accompaniment to an amazing dish.
Seriously or anyone who hasn’t tried it you definitely should. It’s fast and tastes amazing on a hot summer day.
Looks great! My wife's birthday is coming up next month. She would loves this! I will add this to the menu for her birthday dinner. Thanks so much!
OMG! Thank you I've been making pickled watermelon rind for years. It's one of my best sellers! I can't wait to see that vid!
Love your vids Glen, been watching your videos for maybe a month but have been loving all your videos thus far, keep up the good work.
I’ve made a version of this with arugula but no cucumber or basil and used a raspberry balsamic vinaigrette. It is quite good. I’m going to try this one also.
I will most definitely be making this one. Thank you.
I've never seen smoked watermelon but i saw someone make a watermelon steak once. He just grilled it a bit but I've heard of people cooking thme down more and supposedly it gets a meat like quality and some people even say it can make a good mock tuna if properly seasoned.
This looks so delicious and cool.
Every summer I make this drink: 1/2 cucumber, 1/4 watermelon, 3 dl elderflower cordial and tonic water to taste. Serve cold.
They're a good couple.
Looks Yummy!!
I haven't had watermelon rind pickles in years! My husband's grandmother used to make them. They are so tasty. I never got the recipe from her. I'll be interested to see yours!
ThankYOU .... very Lekkirrrrr .....Njammies.... indeed
I make this salad in the summer. I add Kalamata olives, red onion, and i use lemon instead of lime. Basically I make a Greek salad substituting watermelon for the lettuce.
Looks and sounds superb. I've named my mini blender 'Evenrude'.In a deeper submersion, it sounds like one.
This recipe is very similar to this one I found 2 nights ago while making butter chicken:
chick-pea salad
combine canned chickpeas, diced cucumber, carrot, onion, tomatoes. Top with crushed pita chips, cilantro before serving.
Dressing: yogurt, salt, paprika or pepper, diced green chillies if preferred hot, chopped or pureed mint and cilantro leaves.
It is incredibly good with that mint + cilantro + yogurt dressing.
*Amazing mouth watering recipe!* 😍😍😍
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Trying this one today because it is, in fact, really really hot outside.
I'm loving the heat wave, I live in Washington and due to the smoke from the forest fires last year we didnt have a summer (smoke caused clouds to form so it was dry, smoggy, and cloudy all summer) and the year before we had a really short summer, and it's so cloudy here that we really only get 3 months of really nice weather. So this is basically the first nice warm sunny summer we've had in like 3 years and the first time in 3 years we've had a stretch of good weather as opposed to a day or 2 of good weather, a few days of clouds, then a day of good weather etc.
I was hoping you'd make watermelon pickles!!!
Please please can you try (if you haven,t already) try making Marmite?
I'm not big on feta but I could totally dig some mozzarella on that. Why not. Maybe add a sprinkle of salt too.
The only thing I want with watermelon is more watermelon.
Interesting Glen... I did no know that the Watermelon and Cucumber was from the same family. So how warm is it over there?
Bill in the Toronto area is has been feeling like 40+ Celsius; we count the humidity factor. You can cut the air with a knife some days it feels so humid.
Cucumbers, Melons and Squash are all closely related. You need to make sure you don't plant them too closely to each other or they'll end up cross-polinating! We accidentally grew a pumpkin plant last year, but the fruits didn't grow very well. I have a suspicion they'd crosspolinated with my cucumbers!
@@l.c.6282 i love living in the Pacific Northwest but its the same way over here. Since there are so many lakes and rivers, the ocean and bays, and the Puget Sound when it gets warm the humidity often shoots up. During a heatwave it feels more like Georgia then a place like Arizona. The other day it got about 35C and about 80% humidity (I'm not sure how that works out when you account for the humidity factor). Normally the cooler temperatures makes the air drop down and keeps things breezy but when it gets hot the air rises and keeps the breeze above the tree line so the air gets kind of hot and stagnant on the ground adding to the swampy feeling.
@@Charky_Creations I've had that happen before. If you plant zucchinis too close to pumpkins you can wind up with mutants and you never know how they'll turn out. One time I got mostly normal but yellow zucchinis and another time I got zucchinis with thick woody skins.
Since you've been working with the smoker, I'd love to see you try a smoked watermelon.
Watermelon and cucumber are related makes sense they’d go together in a salad
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Good with cilantro instead. And top with cooked, chilled shrimp.
is that how basil is normally pronounced in Great White North
0:33 one tried to get away xD
Wish I had some of this salad now! Where are my mint leaves?
I love cucumbers but watermelon, mint and feta with a squeeze of lime juice and oregano or tarragon instead of basil is my thing.
I wonder if Glen licked the honey spoon... 😎
Cheers
Glen did you move out of Toronto to California ?
“If you don’t like Feta...then “forgetta” (bout it)😂
Watermelon season is my favorite season. I don't even care that eating watermelon makes me get up multiple times a night to pee. I love it so.
What's 'bazzle'?
I grow white cucumbers and picklers, I don't bother with the big green slicing cucumbers anymore except for the middle-eastern varieties.
Glen, may I make a suggestion...look up something called watermelon konfyt on a South African recipe site. I think you will like it. Best eaten on fresh, white bread.
Watame-lon brought me here... nice YT recommendations.
wait, are we, the audience, Friends? LOL
I always thought it means friends of Glen's
Around here watermelon salad is Cucumber, cut up
Watermelon, peeled, cut into cubes Cucumber, cut up
½ cup crumbled feta cheese and one sweet onion cut thin, sometimes a half cup of strawberries
Didn't know you could pickle the rind. We always left the rind out in the garden. The butterflies would swarm it and what was left would break down and nourish the soil.
Sumah Poppin
Best made fresh. Doesn't keep well
Is it bah-zil or bay-zil? Toe-ma-toe or toe-may-toe? 🤔
I noticed the same. I say bay-zil. I thought Glen planned to put a Swiss city in his salad. 😁
Either or?
I always get a kick out of Oregon-oh. Instead of or-egg-en-oh
Or Baz uhl (Australia)
I Thought that milk products and watermelon weren't supposed to get together
@@lilsuzq32 i drank milk and ate watermelon the other day and my stomach became a fermentation chamber. I'm not sure if the same would happen with cheese or yogurt though
Cucumbers are a melon. That's my main takeaway from this video. I still can't wrap my brain around it.
When I was a kid, my dad had planted watermelons and cukes in the same patch and some of them cross pollinated, creating fat cucumbers with a slightly sweet, pale pink inside. I've heard that usually the cross pollination results in bitter hybrids. I guess we lucked out.
Kinda miss Jules' saying that she would have added more veggies to it.
Never heard basil pronounced that way before. Have I been saying it wrong? Lol
It always reminds me of Austin powers “what does it all mean basil?”
It’s nice to hear it that way. I’m Canadian and in my part of Canada, it’s mostly pronounced like North Americans do (bay-sil), but sometimes I hear bah-sil.
I heartily dislike feta, but I'd add light soy to get my umami
not the same thing at all you will lose all the contrasting textures and flavours.Try some fresh farmers; cheese instead, or deli style cream cheese
Its a pickle pickle :)
We made a melon salad at the restaurant instead of honey we used cherry liqueur and Greek yogurt instead of feta
Flopilop l am definitely trying the cherry liqueur🙏
@@ruthtorphy2204 we used Griotte specifically
+ red onion.
Guess I'm going to Grocery for Watermelon and Cuke. This channel is HorRibLe 😂🤣😂
Thank you, a wonderful salad! But think next time I may add (as suggested elsewhere) a bit of onion. Or maybe even chives. Would also like to thank and congratulate you on the proper pronunciation of the aromatic herb 'basil' ( baz il ). Sorry, but a real pet peeve I have, is people saying basal ( baze il ), which actually is a part of anatomy. Thanks again.
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Yum! Except for the Feta... I'm not a fan of it. 💜
you need an amazon link page, make a little money and give us a hint at the equipment your using.
I don't like cucumber, and both mint and basil cause me to swell up, and yet I still watched the whole thing.
Wow, the first recipe you've posted that, well, to me doesn't seem that appetizing. Not crazy about Watermelon #1 and Cucumbers, I could take 'em or leave 'em. I had pickled Watermelon rind once in the deep south and they can keep it down there ha ha. My 1st negative comment
Watermelons in your part of the world are probably not sweet
airpaprika: Glen’s in Ontario, Canada. Watermelons are definitely sweet here.
@@EastSider48215 I live in a country with extremely sweet watermelons. Few years ago, I was in Miami, Florida. The watermelons that were being sold there were so tasteless, that this particular supermarket offered vanilla flavoured creamy dips to go with watermelon slices.
feta and watermelon, just absurd. This feta-watermelon fashion did not start in Greece.