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WATERMELON FOOTBALLS!
Augment your Super Bowl feast with a unique, marbled-green football helmet carved from a single round watermelon.
Many a fall and winter weekend is spent with friends watching football culminating with the Super Bowl in early February. A great way to get your guests pumped for the game while enjoying healthy munchies is with a watermelon carving of a football or your favourite team’s logo. Simply carve the laces and pattern of a football into an oblong watermelon, cut the top off to make a removable lid and use a melon baler to create bite-sized snacks.
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Directions on carving a Watermelon
Very simple to do, the completed sculpture acts as a vessel for a defensive-line-sized serving of fresh cut fruit.
- Using a round watermelon, slice off a piece approximately 4 inches (10 cm) down on the stem end. Set cut piece aside to use later for mouth guard.
- Make a curved cut from one side of the melon to the other to cut out the face portion of the helmet. Hollow out the entire melon.
- Take the piece that was set aside in step #1 and place cut side down. Place knife at the center of stem end and cut in half.
- Take one half of cut piece and draw mouth guard grid with a sharp pencil or thin marker as shown in picture. Remove flesh and using a small knife, cut out grid design.
- To assemble, place mouth piece on a plate. Place the helmet piece on top, pushing the mouthpiece ends towards the inside of the helmet. You may need to carve a little out of the helmet ends to fit the mouth grid comfortably.
- Fill with fruit salad.
Watermelon: For the health of it
Regardless of the time of year, watermelon is an extraordinary fruit that is packed with goodness. In addition to being a perfect hydrator, watermelon is packed with nutrients including the antioxidant lycopene, vitamin C, thiamine and vitamin B6, vitamin A, pantothenic acid, magnesium and potassium.
Recent studies on the health benefits of watermelon are even more encouraging. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service in Lane, Oklahoma, have confirmed that watermelon is an excellent source of the amino acid citrulline.
The human body uses cirtrulline to make another important amino acid – arginine – which plays a key role in cell division, wound healing and the removal of ammonia. Citrulline is not only abundant in watermelon but it’s also readily usable by the body and watermelon is one of the few foods that contain high levels of it.
The possibilities for enjoying watermelon are endless. For more inspired recipe ideas, general information plus tips on creative watermelon carving visit » www.watermelon.org
