Good Cook Fruit Bowl Giveaway + Watermelon Granita Recipe!

Byrachel
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This giveaway is sponsored by Good Cook. I received a fresh fruit bowl for purposes of review. All opinions here, however are my own.

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Today I have for you a giveaway and an easy fresh fruit recipe, all wrapped up into one! Let me tell you first about this awesomesauce Good Cook Fresh Fruit bowl, which is only available at Bed Bath and Beyond (or... say... if you win one here...!).

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This big three-piece bowl features a genius strainer insert that keeps fresh cut fruit from stewing in its own juices, plus an easy pour spout so you can discard the juice that accumulates on the bottom of the larger green bowl. I made this recipe several days ago, stored the other half of the cut watermelon in the fridge, and the bowl is keeping it nice and fresh -- in a regular bowl, the pieces on the bottom would be overly juicy and starting to get icky by now.

So, here's something to make with your fresh fruit this season:

Easy Peasy Watermelon Granita Recipe

Just three ingredients here (optionally four)

5 cups cut up seedless watermelon
½ cup sugar (use less if you have a very sweet watermelon)
Juice of one small lime
Mini chocolate chips (optional)

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Add watermelon, lime juice, and sugar to food processor or blender and combine til smooth. I have an underpowered little food processor, so some of the little white seeds were left in mine. They were pretty inoffensive, but a more powerful machine will take care of that -- or pick them out if they bother you.

Pour watermelon mixture into a glass 9x13 pan and freeze for two hours. Scrape up your granita all around the edges as shown above, then refreeze for another two hours. Scrape up the rest of your granita, and serve!

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Now, you could get all fancy and serve your cool and refreshing watermelon granita in margarita glasses with some spiral zested lime twists. And maybe add a little vodka. 😉 Since I was serving this to kids, however, I thought it would be more fun to put some in a green bowl and add some mini chocolate chips as "seeds." Now it's a watermelon recipe... pretending to be... a watermelon!

The hardest part of this recipe

... was actually clearing off a shelf in the freezer so that the granita had a space to freeze up! Mr. 7 has been highly enjoying it, and requests some for dessert every single night. Watermelon granita is naturally dairy free and gluten free, so a great easy summer dessert for families with food allergies.

So let’s give away this bowl!

What can you win?

  • One Mashup Mom reader will win a Good Cook Three Piece Fruit Bowl.

How do you enter?

  • Just comment here and let me know your favorite way to enjoy fresh fruit during the summer!

One entry per comment; each comment is an entry; a maximum of one entry per household. Enter through 11:59 PM Central on 7/5/14. U.S. residents only, please. If you are reading this through email or Facebook, please click on the title of this post (up at the top where it says “Good Cook…”) to go back to the blog. Scroll down to the bottom of the post and you will see a box to enter your comment; just comment there to enter. Email and Facebook entries will not be counted. If you are reading Mashup Mom on the web, look at the bottom of this post where it says “___ comments.” Click on that to get the box to enter your own comment.

The fine print

Prizing and information for this giveaway has been provided by Good Cook; however, all opinions here are my own. The winner will be randomly selected from all comments received on or around 7/6/14 and will have 48 hours to respond to notification email; Prize will be forfeited and Mashup Mom will choose a runner up if no response is received in that time frame.

No purchase necessary. The number of eligible entries receives determines the odds of winning. Duplicate entries will be deleted. Void where prohibited. Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery of your prize.

The extra fine print

Special Good Cook giveaway disclosure rules

  • One prize per household for each Good Cook event. For example, if someone wins on 2 or more blogs, they - or their family members - will only receive one prize from that event.
  • If a household has won a prize in a previous Good Cook event, they are not eligible win again for 6 months.
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77 Comments

  3. Love to peel and freeze bananas ,especially when certain stores sells them by the box reduced ! Just put them in a freezer bag ,and use one at a time or what ever , they break apart real easy make great smoothies or what ever .Also peels make great compost ,they will start getting brown after 4 weeks so use them up.

  4. Love to just sit outside with the kids and a nice cold bowl of fresh fruit, soaking up some sun.

  6. I always keep it bite-sized! The kids are much more likely to munch on fresh fruit when it's easy.

  7. I came across a recipe for Mojito Fruit Salad that is delish! This is my new favorite way to enjoy fresh fruit. Love it but it is for grown up only.

  13. I bought one of those "kid friendly" watermelons (i.e. seedless and sweet) and it was the best one I've ever had! I love it just cut up with no added sugar or salt.

  16. We like to go to the fresh Fruit Market in Merrillville, Indiana as well as any of the stores that have our favorites on sale. We keep a side of the freezer cleared off for our refillable Ziploc freezer bags that we put the fruit in after Mom has washed, cubed if needed and frozen them on cookie sheets ( so they won't stick together - blueberries, strawberries and pineapples are our top 3 - besides the nasty naners) We then make smoothies with our frozen fruit, plain yogurt and orange juice....for awhile we have the juice from our canned fruit in the winter that we freeze in ice trays and put into freezer bags. Oh and those icky countertop over ripe bananas that we toss straight in the freezer, so the fruit flies don't take up on them. And guess what ! a lot of times we throw in a handful of frozen spinach or kale and make a green smoothie or mucky one !

  18. I love fresh fruit salad with dinner.... It's almost impossible to have any leftovers 😉

  21. Summer= eating watermelon slices with my bare fee in the green grass and spitting the seeds .Lol.

  24. I've been on a watermelon agua fresca kick-- just blend watermelon and water, and voila! A great refreshing summer drink 😀

  25. my parents live by a Michigan berry farm-we make amazing jams from them that I love to mix into some plain greek yogurt for breakfast. Going to get more strawberries next week 😉

  26. We love just about any fruit and get whatever is on sale! We love raspberries, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries and pineapple!

  28. Lots of fresh fruit just sounds plenty good! Strawberries and blueberries will make a great dessert already, but the more fruit the better, in my opinion.:)

  29. I like to cut up seedless watermelon with a melon baller and keep in a container in the fridge to snack on.

  31. I hate watermelon but LOVE canteloupe. I would use this for a freshly balled melon to nibble on for a few days.

  33. The best way is to clean it and cut it up after you get it home so when you open the fridge the kids can grab some when they want it!

  36. We love fresh fruit served all different ways! Mostly we just mix it up in a bowl and enjoy it! This recipe looks so cool and my kids are really into watermelon right now so I'm gonna try it soon!!!! 🙂

  41. I'm LATINA and lime with ground red chile pepper and salt makes watermelon amazinggggg! A not so sweet watermelon becomes sweeter with salt and I also saw a great watermelon slicer that looks like a big round slicer at Sams Club that could "cut your work in half" no pun intended!!
    This bowl would totally encourage this gal and my family to eat more fresh fruit and veggies on a regular basis this summer!!

  42. Fresh fruit doesn't stay long in my house.... My family LOVES any kind of fruit especially Watermelon 😀

  45. We love watermelon with a pinch of lemon on it! Love all of summer's fresh, sweet and yummy fruits!

  49. Only eat fresh fruit until noon, usually a medley of sliced banana, strawberries, blackberries; other times raspberries, plums, kiwi and we're lucky to live in California.

  52. I might be boring about how I eat my fruit, but I just have it in its raw, natural state.

    Thanks for the chance!

  59. Fresh fruit drizzled with fresh squeezed lime juice and mixed with finely chopped fresh mint is my favorite way to serve it!

  60. Im on a smoothie kick and trying to get my very picky son to try some too, so far its worked!

  62. We like our fruit plain, just the natural flavors. I love this bowl, I think I'm gonna have to go check it out!

  65. Our family is a huge fan of strawberries or any berry and I put a small dollop of vanilla yogurt, cool whip or whip cream (whatever I happen to have!)

  66. Thought I'd give this recipe a try. The kids LOVED it. And the surprise--they all said to make it without the chocolate chips next time!

  67. This fresh cut fruit bowl is awesome. It would encourage healthier eating if I know when I buy the fruit it wouldn't spoil so fast.

  70. My favorite way to use fresh fruit in the summer is to mix it into yogurt.

  71. My kids love when I take fresh berries of any kind and put whipped cream on them.

  72. I like to make a fruit salad with whatever fresh fruit is a good price that week.

  74. I love making a fresh fruit salad or a fresh fruit in smoothies! I purchase a lot of fresh fruit in the summer.

  76. My son loves his watermelon and can eat it all day, 7 days a week. This would sure make it easy than having to open up the fridge and cutting up the watermelon several times a day. And my 2 year old just asked for som just as I'm typing this up. 🙂

  77. I love to make fruit cobblers in the summer. My dad's peach trees produce a lot, so I seem to make peach cobbler almost weekly.

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