Watermelon-Mint Granita

Oh, good heavens, how could something this beautiful and incredibly easy to make be so good!?  This is the absolute perfect finale to any summer meal.  Cool, refreshing mint with sweet crunchy watermelon ice.   Prep time 10 minutes and some freezing time, you will have a dessert that your whole family will rave about.  See my photos and read about Miss Sophie's childhood memories on Savannah Morning News here......

Watermelon Mint Granita
Adapted from Miss Sophie's 

Serves 4

1 cup sugar

½ cup water

4 cups seedless watermelon, coarsely chopped

10-12 Mint leaves coarsely chopped 

1 lime, juiced and zested

In a medium saucepan, bring water to boil and add sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside to cool 

In a blender, process watermelon chunks, sugar syrup, mint leaves and juice and zest of one lime.   Pour into a shallow pan and freeze for 3 hours, uncovered. Every 30 minutes rake a fork across the frozen mixture to break it up.  Serve in a pretty glass dish and garnish with a mint leaf.

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Grilled Peaches with Bourbon Butter Sauce

 Happiness is when you get a case of Lane's peaches from a friend.  What a friend!   I'm grinning from ear to ear looking at the half-bushel box on the dining table.  As the ripening peach scent wafting in my kitchen, and with kinda stupid-happy grin on my face, you'd think my husband has given me another engagement ring.  Food is my love language.   I left the box as the centerpiece for the table for four days, I think.

Another happiness?  Choosing what to do with these glorious Georgia peaches! Miss Sophie and I had crazy wonderful time deciding on which recipe to write and photograph.....yes, we are complete food nerds to the core.  Digging through her recipe boxes, she chose this recipe, along with a few others for her Wednesday food column with Savannah Morning News.  Click here to read.

Grilled Georgia peaches with vanilla ice cream topped with Bourbon butter sauce.... these dog days of Savannah summer just got better.   

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Grilled Peaches with Bourbon Butter Sauce
Recipe by Miss Sophie 
Used with permission

2 peaches, ripe ones, cut in half and pitted
2 tablespoons butter
¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup bourbon
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt

Vanilla ice cream

Combine butter, sugar, cinnamon, salt and bourbon in a medium saucepan. Cook on medium heat until butter and sugar are melted. Remove from heat.

Lightly coat hot grill grates with oil. Place peaches cut side down onto grates. Cook for 5 minutes or until carmalized. Place grilled peach in a bowl, top with a scoop of ice cream and drizzle with glaze.