Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl's Top 5 Recipes For Cucumbers
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I love all the cucumbers! The big hothouse fellows, the little pickling guys! And it's peak pickling cucumber season right now. I know because I was at the farmer's market earlier and they were stacked up everywhere in pyramids and heaped in bushel baskets. But what to do with them? So many things! My top five fresh cucumber recipes!
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Cucumber Limeade
Recipe
Ever go to a fancy spa, and there are cucumbers cut up in the water? They add a lovely crisp quality to any liquid, and you can put them in limeade! Add a little mint for an extra zip in it as well. A perfect way to spruce up your beverages.
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Whipped Feta with Cucumbers
Recipe
Just a food processor, some feta, some whipping cream and cream cheese, and you can have the best dip. If you want to be fancy, use the dip to attach a cucumber slice to a cherry tomato or an olive. Serve with some crisp white wine—that's a fancy fast dinner party idea!
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Sichuan Cooked Cucumber Salad
Recipe
Cooked cucumbers? Yes you can! I love the Szechuan style of spicing and cooking cucumbers, and eating them hot. I get these in restaurants like Grand Szechuan in Bloomington. They're easy to make, I love Roy Choi's recipe, and there's a whole menu if you're ambitious.
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Quick Armenian Cucumber Pickles
Recipe
How fast can you make a cucumber pickle? Really fast. In honor of our guest Faith Durand, I thought we should talk about one of the best, fastest recipes you will ever make. A little garlic, a little hot pepper—you have pickles so fast!
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Pickles!
Recipe
Needless to say, the most perfect thing to do with cucumbers is to make pickles! The gold standard, as far as I'm concerned, is the old fashioned kind that ferment in the basement or on your kitchen counter. I love the crunch you get that way. Sandor Katz is the modern fermentation guru, and his master recipe is linked above.
