Summertime celebrations were one of mums favourite times of the year despite the incessant heat and humidity. Celebrating with family and togetherness, summer fruits and foods, everyone chipping in to make meals, camping out in her bush garden, playing music, cooling off in the swimming hole abundant with water lilies and cicadas so loud you could barely hear yourself think. Summertime at mums place at its best.
It feels like yesterday that we were all at her place celebrating amongst the flooded gums and bromeliads, tree ferns, tamarillo trees and lantana..Mums laughter and violin tunes ringing out into the bush.
All that has faded now like things do, only living on in my memories and words on the page, if only I knew to just soak it all in more often back then, to really be present to knowing that one day those moments would all just become ghosts in my mind…
And although we are making new memories and that feels lovely, I’m still wishing with all my might that Mum could be here too celebrating with us..
Now onto the recipe…Summer berries and fruits feel like such delightful treats and are filled with so much flavour and goodness.
Berries and cherries, watermelon, and mangoes, peaches and plums…They feel like little gifts that await at the end of the year to revel and indulge in..
This simple fruit platter is perfect for entertaining, or entertaining a child! Its fun and so easy to make.
All you need is a platter-like dish, and a selection of your favourite summer fruits.
I’ve chosen cherries, raspberries, strawberries and watermelon, garnished with red currants, mint and lime. But feel free to come up with your own combination, stone fruit or mangoes and grapes would go well too, I just love all the pinks and reds together with a hint of green.
This serving platter in the picture was one of mums, she is interwoven into everything I do and am…and it’s nice to have some pieces of her around me along with the memories…
Here’s the recipe below
Enjoy
Alli x
Summer Fruits Platter
Ingredients
- 2 cups Watermelon diced
- 1 cup Strawberries sliced and quartered
- 1 cup Cherries Seeds removed and halved
- 1 cup Raspberries
- 2-3 sprigs Fresh Red currants Optional
- 1 Lime sliced and quartered
- 2-3 sprigs Fresh Mint chopped roughly
Instructions
- Slice and dice watermelon into cubes
- Wash and slice and quarter strawberries, leave some green tops on if desired
- Remove seeds from cherries and halve
- Assemble all the fruits on a serving platter, roughly mix and arrange
- Add red currants as a garnish, if desired (optional)
- Squeeze the juice of half a lime all over fruit and mix again, use remaining lime for serving, cut into wedges
- Roughly chop sprigs of mint and sprinkle on top of fruit
- Serve straight away
