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One kind of cucumber I planted is new to me...long cucumbers. They look just like those expensive hothouse cucumbers that have few if any seeds. Given how much they charge at the market for them I figured that they were hard to grow or only would produce a few. Wrong.
They are growing even better than the regular cucumbers and each vine is happily producing more than half dozen of them. With so many gorgeous cucumbers to have fun with I decided to make a couple of recipes.
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They are growing even better than the regular cucumbers and each vine is happily producing more than half dozen of them. With so many gorgeous cucumbers to have fun with I decided to make a couple of recipes.
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For lunch yesterday I had a very proper cup of tea and cucumber sandwich. I had some homemade sourdough bread which I sliced fairly thinly. I removed the crusts, spread the slices with butter, thinly, and then layered on thinly sliced long cucumbers. They went really well with the Earl Gray tea and I really enjoyed the crunchy mild cucumbers which contrasted nicely with the bread and butter.
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Those cukes are the best. They're like English cucumbers, only with even fewer seeds - they're tricky to find here, but occasionally we do.
ReplyDeleteWe're looking forward to moving toward the central part of the country, which includes farms - more produce all 'round (and honey, and berries and cheeses and pheasants, calves and lambs, which we'll be leaving alone).
Love cukes, husband hates 'em. I find it hard to get through a whole one before it goes bad...but a cucumber salad with feta sounds amazing! Who needs the romaine? ;)
ReplyDeleteThe salad sounds great.
ReplyDeleteCute tomato, too.