Be careful using the knives and the blender. Google videos for how to cut watermelon, mangos, and onions if you need to see how it’s done. Be careful with blender blades.
Taste Quest is ringing in the summer the best way we know how—(water)Melon Mania! We thought we’d share two of our favorite watermelon recipes for you and your family to enjoy. Play-based learning is kind of our thing, so be sure to play the sensory game under the pico de gallo recipe!
Watermelon Pico de Gallo
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Foodie Game
Taste Quest is all about experiencing food with all 5 senses. For this challenge you’ll need one piece of paper and one writing utensil per participant. Each salsa ingredient (except for salt and pepper) will be a separate round of the game. Give the group 30 seconds to observe the first ingredient, making note of how each of the senses experiences that ingredient. Taste it, touch it (with clean hands!), smell it, hear it (get creative here), and look at it. Once the observation period is over, set the ingredient aside. Give the group 30 seconds to jot down single-word descriptors of that ingredient, trying to describe it with each of the senses [example with lime: astringent (taste), dimpled (touch), splatter (sound), vibrant (appearance), fresh (smell)]. Write down as many words as you can think of during the 30-second time period. Finally, compare notes. Each participant gets one point per unique word they came up with. Meaning if two participants write the same word, nobody gets the point. The trick here is to be creative so no one comes up with the same word as you. Try this for each ingredient, then tally up the points. The person with the most points gets to toss the salsa!
Watermelon-Mint Spritz (kid-friendly, of course.)
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Tip: Our favorite recipes are the ones that call for getting our hands a little messy. Straining through cheese cloth is a great job for a budding chef. Place the cheese cloth over a bowl (the bigger the bowl, the smaller the mess), hold the cloth while you pour the watermelon mixture, then squeeze the cloth until the dripping stops.
Show us how you do MDW by sharing a picture of your watermelon creation and tagging us on Facebook or Instagram @TastequestHQ.
These two recipes are absolutely delicious, and you might end up making them with your family all summer long! Kids will definitely need supervision learning to prepare the watermelon, mango (optional), herbs, and red onion. Don’t shy away from this though: learning how to chop each of these ingredients builds critical skills!
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