{"id":2852,"date":"2025-09-15T06:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:53:23","slug":"ditalinis-watermelon-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Ditalini&#8217;s Watermelon Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/54788065390\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"IMG_5532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54788065390_ff51784489_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"IMG_5532\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just the thing for hot weather. The serrano chilis spice it up, depending on how many you use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hrecipe h-recipe jetpack-recipe\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Recipe\"><h3 class=\"p-name jetpack-recipe-title fn\" itemprop=\"name\">Ditalini&#039;s Watermelon Salad<\/h3><ul class=\"jetpack-recipe-meta\"><li class=\"jetpack-recipe-servings p-yield yield\" itemprop=\"recipeYield\"><strong>Servings: <\/strong>4 to 6<\/li><li class=\"jetpack-recipe-time\">\n\t\t\t\t<time itemprop=\"totalTime\" datetime=\"P0DT0H20M0S\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> <span class=\"time\">20 min<\/span><\/time>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"jetpack-recipe-difficulty\"><strong>Difficulty: <\/strong>easy<\/li><li class=\"jetpack-recipe-print\"><a href=\"#\">Print<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"jetpack-recipe-content\"><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 cups watermelon, cubed<\/li>\n<li>2 cups cucumber, peeled, seeded, cut into crescents<\/li>\n<li>2 serrano chiles, thinly sliced<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp lime juice<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>salt &#038; pepper<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup crumbled feta cheese<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup mint leaves, torn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a platter or large plate, build a pyramid of watermelon cubes in a circle of cucumber crescents, curved edges out. Put serrano chili slices on top of cucumber crescents (more or less, depending on desired spiciness). Make dressing by mixing olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lime juice, and salt &#038; pepper to taste; drizzle over the salad. Top with feta and fresh mint. Serve.<br \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the thing for hot weather. The serrano chilis spice it up, depending on how many you use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[294,34,234,293],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads","tag-feta","tag-salad","tag-spicy","tag-watermelon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pixFB-K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}