Summer has defiantly arrived and what I really crave at this time of year is simple easy salads that excite your taste buds! In this salad the mix of sweet, sour and salty is perfect for the hot summer nights to come. Don’t be afraid to use fruit in savory salads the natural sweetness of summer fruits really adds an exciting element to an ordinary salad .Try adding some of this seasons nectarines or mango to your next salad and let me know how it goes!
To cool off in the sweltering heat we all love a beer on the beach but why not try this deliciously refreshing salad and cocktail for a change.
Watermelon and Feta Salad
¼ of a watermelon chopped into bite size chunks
150 grms of salty feta
A handful of pitted kalamatta olives
1/2 a red onion thinly sliced into half moons
Fresh mint chopped
Juice of one lime
Extra virgin olive oil
Put watermelon on a large plate squeeze lime juice over, crumble the feta over and dot with olives mint and onion and drizzle with olive oil. For a different version and extra bite add thinly sliced radishes (in season in January) instead of red onion and scatter over the top.
Mojito
High ball glass
45ml white rum
½ lime cut into wedges
1 tbs brown sugar
8 mint leaves
Soda Water to fill glass
Ice
Place mint limes and sugar in the bottom of a glass and with a muddle stick if you have one or rolling pin, muddle the ingredients squeezing all the juice from the limes. Then fill the glass almost to the top with ice pour the rum over the ice and top up with soda. This drink takes me right back to the beach in Barcelona….Heavenly refreshing!
Alex has been with Caroline Serviced Apartments since 2009. Coming on board as our Front Office Receptionist, and is now our Resident Assistant Manager at South Yarra. Alex's outgoing personality and crazy sense of humour help guests' have a memorable stay, or perhaps it's those phenomenal cooking smells coming from her kitchen that keep people coming back again and again! 
