Recipe: Variations on Melon

In glasses (or pretty glasses) or on skewers (small wooden picks)
For appetizers as finger food, small skewers with melon balls and watermelon balls.
With a turn of the pepper mill, then using melon balls you can alternate multiple elements.
Parma ham
Bayonne ham
San Daniele and coppa
Smoked or dried magret
Bacon
Viande des Grisons
Thin slices of crispy pancetta
Thin slices of chorizo
For skewers based on fish and shellfish:
Make them starting with melon balls
Shrimp tails
Langoustines, precooked
Scallops and roasted St. Jacques shells in olive oil and cooled
Lobster or spiny lobster cubes
Crayfish tails
Crab pieces
Smoked salmon or halibut
Dried sprats
Mussels and cockles, precooked
Then in the glasses that you can prepare in advance:
Always start with the same principle: Remove the seeds then with a spoon extract the flesh and then blend or pour into your blender with a few drops of lemon and season.
But what will we put in these glasses? Here are some suggestions:
Melon coulis with a few melon balls and a dash of
Sauternes with a mint leaf;
Melon coulis with a few pink shrimp tails
Small diced cucumber and seasoned with Espelette pepper.
Melon coulis and shelled mussels
Small diced zucchini just cooked and crispy.
Melon coulis with small diced scallops
Just marked with olive oil and cooled with a leaf
Of basil or Mesentery as decoration.
Melon coulis blended with a little cream and a few
small pieces of Roquefort added to the glass with
crushed roasted peanuts on top.
Melon coulis, melon balls of cucumber just blanched and
cooled with a few strips of smoked salmon and a little dill