Showing posts with label cucumbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cucumbers. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Stuffed Cucumbers. No. Really.

Sorry about the shadows
I am not having a good cucumber year. That said, there are still the inevitable "How in the world did I miss that?" cucumbers. They are too large for even dill pickles, and definitely too large for a salad-- about the size of tasteless cucumbers in the store. Not long ago, Mr. Big Food came across a couple of recipes for stuffed cucumbers which called for just these cukes! 

I had my doubts, but they are surprisingly good! Recipe shortly.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

All we do is eat!: Recipes Page

In addition to the main page you are reading, there is a "Recipes" page here at the blog that has a list of recipes I've posted and links to the recipe's post. The link to the Recipe Page is in the header under the blog title. This page has been out of date for months-- and I apologize for that. I took advantage of Mr. Big Food's recent absence and the warm spell we're having here (yes, it was too warm for me to work outside this afternoon) to update the page and do a spot of organization of the list.

It was fun traveling down Food Memory Lane! But I also realized I've been very neglectful lately about taking photos and posting recipes. I'll try to do better because we are eating well, and rather inexpensively, I might add. 

I've one favor to ask. If you know-- because you copied it to a notecard-- I've posted a recipe for something, and you don't see it on the recipe page, please let me know so I can correct the list. 

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In just a bit I will pull some Spicy Frozen Cucumbers (from last year!) out of the freezer. We'll have those with tonight's supper. For those who have an overabundance of cukes this season, here's the recipe.

Eat well!

Monday, January 16, 2012

Spicy Frozen Cucumbers

How to enjoy an abundant harvest of cucumbers if you don't want pickles
I cannot believe that I didn't blog about spicy frozen cucumbers last fall! Maybe we'd finished putting them up before I started talking to myself.

Spicy frozen cucumbers are an excellent fresh salad substitute, especially this time of year. Believe it or not, they stay remarkably crunchy. I was going to say "crispy" and then I remembered that "crispy" was code for "fattening." And they are not fattening.

As displayed at nutrientfacts.com
They may be a little salty-- which I love-- but they are not fattening!

Recipe & a tip or two below.