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NBR: Cucumbers
What's your favorite thing to do with cucumbers?
I have about 5 or 6 cucumbers that I need to eat from our CSA. We made pickles with the bucketful we had last week, but 5 or 6 isn't enough for another batch. I'm not a huge fan of them myself, but we're having some friends over for dinner tonight and I'd liked to try to use them all if possible. I will have up to an hour after work to put something together. I could put together a salad, but I'd still have 4 or 5. What do you think? Pinterest isn't really coming up with anything super appetizing or doesn't involve some crazy ingredients.
I have about 5 or 6 cucumbers that I need to eat from our CSA. We made pickles with the bucketful we had last week, but 5 or 6 isn't enough for another batch. I'm not a huge fan of them myself, but we're having some friends over for dinner tonight and I'd liked to try to use them all if possible. I will have up to an hour after work to put something together. I could put together a salad, but I'd still have 4 or 5. What do you think? Pinterest isn't really coming up with anything super appetizing or doesn't involve some crazy ingredients.
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Re: NBR: Cucumbers
I love making greek pasta salad this time of year. Depending on how much you will eat, it eats up cukes pretty good.
I also really enjoy Blueberry cuke smoothies.
Stole this from one of my favorite bloggers, not sure if it'll work in your case but it'll use up at least one or two more in addition to a salad. It's my favorite way to eat cucumbers and I don't usually like them. Peel a cucumber and cut into thin slices. Throw them in a bowl and salt & pepper them to death. Throw in the fridge for 15 mins or so, covered with plastic wrap. Once you remove them from the fridge, pour white vinegar over them and serve.
No, but seriously. I love these:
Mix together 8 oz cream cheese and 1/2 cup mayo, add in a packet of dry zesty Italian dressing mix, and combine.
Slice a baguette, fairly thin slices
Use a vegetable peeler to slice the cucumber paper thin.
Spread mixture on baguette slices, fold up a cucumber strip on top of that, and then sprinkle with dill.
So good, and pretty, too.
Now, THAT is a recipe that will please my friends. They love bread.
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I'll eat anything with goat cheese.
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I second the Greek salad rec from Eli.
Also, I must admit I was snickering a little myself.
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My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Also, Polish Cucumber Salad. My grandma used to make it all the time. Cucumbers, sour cream, dill, salt and pepper.
sfgiantsjo That sounds delicious!
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I like just peeling them, slicing and eating with a litte vinegar.
My new favorite thing is peeling them & chopping them up. Taking a wrap and spreading laughing cow cheese on it, then putting the cucumbers on top. Then put a few slices of deli turkey breast, roll up, and enjoy.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
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Yep! I buy the Mitsukan brand and it looks like this for reference:
My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
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