put your favourite cucumber meals here

tabbouleh
cucumber and hummus pitas
cucumber tea sandwiches
cucumber and noodle salad

I love cukes and tomatoes sliced with a splash of balsamic vinegar over them. Ok, who am I kidding, I just like cucumber and vinegar in any combination. Must be a childhood spent with summer meals that always included refrigerator pickles (water, cukes, white vinegar, salt, pepper, and onion left to become a serious brine as we kept replacing the cucumbers and adding to the vinegar :p)

you have to add red onion and feta to the pitas ;) oh and a little oregano and lemon juice are tasty too :) Oh that tuna with feta that I posted on the other thread had had a little oregano in it too, i forgot!I have also seen cuckes hollowed out and tuna salad added to them

Tzatziki sauce of course (cucumber yogurt sauce), also raita is a variation on this. Cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches (you can add dill or use flavored cream cheese for variety). I love cucumbers and homemade ranch dressing. My mama always just cut either them alone, them with tomatoes or onions or both and tossed with a little vinegar, a dash of sugar and a dash of salt and pepper. You can also use rice wine vinegar and red peppers. I have had a sort of salsa made wih diced cukes, red onion jalapenos and tomatoes,and a variation with scallions (my mom made this because it was all stuff from the garden). I can't remember what you use to bring it all together though? Maybe lime juice?? I want to say it had cilantro in it as well, and maybe cumin???

Cucumber is suprisingly good with watermelon (I like it as a salad with a teeny bit of balsamic vinegar and feta cheese, but this may be weird LOL). It is a fruit after all though, and most similar to melons, so it really does complement them well IMO. My gma made some gelatin mold thing w cucumbers but it was pretty nasty LOL. I think in the 50's they believed everything could be made into a gelatin mold, and for some people that idea never really went away LOL. Oh oh! Greek salad! LOTS of cucumber, and a homemade dressing!

Ok, thats all I can come up with right now-- I AM craving cucumbers now though! Oh and i can't eat them warm-- I have seen them served warm before, but it is just NOT for me!

Cucumber maki
Cucumber kimchi
Cucumber/tomato salad (with olive oil and lemon juice dressing)
Cold Asian noodles with cucumbers

oh man. you got me STARTED!

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i had a to-die-for cuke salad with jalapenos when i was at the Farm last summer. i'll have to find the recipe.