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Cucumbers
Cucumbers are mostly water. Cucumbers can be added to salads, dipped in low fat dressings, sliced up onto a sandwich, sliced into cold side dishes, put into
wraps, used as a healthy alternative to a tortilla shell, or just eaten with a vinegar based cucumber salad. The possibilities are endless for cucumbers.
Cucumbers are extremely low in calories, making them a very favorable diet food, right up there with lettuce.
My Favorite Cucumber Salad
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Ingredients
2 garlic cloves
1 to 3 hot peppers (will vary per tolerance, use caution)
3 T fish sauce
1 lime
1 T sugar or Splenda
1 whole ripe, red big tomato
1 large cucumber
Smidge of sea salt
Directions
Smash the garlic and the peppers using a mortar and pestle (do not get in eyes).
Add sugar and salt.
Cut lime in half, squeeze both halves into mixture, and discard any seeds.
Add fish sauce and mix.
Cut cucumber into long slices.
Cut tomato into slices.
Transfer mixture into large bowl.
Add cucumbers and tomatoes.
This can be eaten by itself or served with sticky rice.
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Yahoo! News Search Results for Cucumbers
Yahoo! News Search Results for Cucumbers
Harried Housewife: Marinated cucumbers
Cucumbers are refreshing additions to salads, are perfect for pickling, and are simply delicious with a sprinkling of salt. But if you are looking for more ways to make use of a bumper-crop of cucumbers, why not combine them with a few other ingredients and give them a soak in the fridge.
Add salmon to gazpacho for a quick, cooling supper
Fresh salmon, cucumbers and tomatoes make a soothing soup supper. Gazpacho is a Spanish soup served at room temperature or chilled. Adding freshly cooked salmon creates a one-dish meal.
Bitter cucumbers can come from unfavorable weather
My cucumbers have developed a bitter taste. What causes this? Also why are some of them yellow? N.P., Sand Springs
Eat it, clean with it, kill weeds...
With the current harvest of cucumbers and fresh salad greens, vinegar is used by local cooks, to bring out the best in these vegetables. Its also time to make pickles and pickled beets, which could not be accomplished without this pungent liquid.
Cold soup beats heat, empties the garden
Tomatoes, corn and cucumbers fresh from backyard gardens and farm markets are rolling in. One of the most popular ways to use all three is to make gazpacho, a cold summer soup.
Visalia Gleaning Seniors carries on; group continues distributing food after ...
An act of weekend vandalism couldn't slow Visalia Gleaning Seniors Inc., whose members Wednesday sorted melons, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and peaches.
Margaret Lauterbach: How to harvest in the Treasure Valley
Some crops are ahead of others in our area, depending on what part of the Valley you're gardening in. I had summer squashes produce early, while friends in the North End had no squashes, but they did have half-ready eggplants and cucumbers.
Long, drenched spring slowed down harvest, but markets filling up
Barrett Briske, of SunSmile Farms off Rough and Ready Highway, picks ripe cherries. Workers pick basil at Riverhill Farm, outside Nevada City, where the wet, cool spring discouraged the cucumbers, but benefited everything else, including broccoli, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes.
Don't let the zucchini crop squash you
A zucchini and summer squash jungle is growing in my garden. Zucchini spreads tall and reaches wide, bumping up against the cucumbers, whose tendrils attempt to entwine the thick, stalky branches.
Community garden thrives in Oak Grove
OAK GROVE Comet Grove, Oak Groves community garden, is flourishing with four acres of vegetables including corn, peppers, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, eggplant, squash, and green beans that are being distributed to those in need in the community.
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