Good Cook Fruit Bowl Giveaway + Watermelon Granita Recipe!

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

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…!).

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
1/2 cup sugar (use less if you have a very sweet watermelon)
Juice of one small lime
Mini chocolate chips (optional)

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 9×13 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!

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.
• If a household has won more than one prize in a previous Good Cook event (prior to the one-win-in-six-months rule), they aren’t eligible win again for 12 months.
  Good Cook Bloggers and Good Cook Kitchen Experts are not eligible to win prizes in Good Cook sponsored events, whether or not they participated in the event or not.
• Good Cook will confirm that winners are eligible and will disqualify anyone who has won more than once.
• Prizes ship from Good Cook and can take 8-10 weeks after the contest ends, unless otherwise stated. You must be 18 or older to win. US shipping addresses only.
• Good Cook reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal value if sufficient inventory is not available.

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