Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad

I have had this recipe bookmarked in one of my favorite cookbooks for two years.  I kept reading other posts about how watermelon and feta cheese taste incredible together, but I just didn’t believe it!  After a recent string of blog posts with similar combinations, I thought…I need to finally try it.  I went back to that cookbook, Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson and read it over again.  I have to admit that I have a special place in my heart for Nigella Lawson.  You could call her my “girl crush”…well her and Rachel Maddow, but that is a story for another day.  If there are any women I would “jump the fence” for it be one of them. 

I am not going to post the recipe here on my site, as my description of how to make this salad would pale in comparison with her description.  The way she describes food is truly beautiful.  From steeping red onions “cut into very fine half-moons” in lime juice to “diminish their rasp” and the description of pouring “now glowingly puce onions” onto the salad are truly food porn to me.  You can read her original recipe here on her website.  I warn you though…you may have a girl crush (or boy crush) after reading her recipe too.

WOW.  I don’t know what I was waiting for.  The flavors in this salad are incredible.  The clean taste of the herbs blend with the sharp cheese, red onion and sweet watermelon in a way that I would never have imagined and can’t even think of how to describe.  You honestly must try this.  Next time, I will go a little lighter on the olives and cut both the watermelon and the feta in a little less rustic fashion.  That way it will be a little easier to get the “perfect bite” on my fork with a taste of each element of the salad.