Showing posts with label cucumber recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cucumber recipes. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2015

Watermelon and Cucumber Salad for a Crowd


From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is another salad designed to feed a crowd. Like the green bean salad that was featured yesterday, this one uses the rag-tag ends of summer produce to make a salad whose savory and sweet elements are combined to make an unusual salad that will be new to many. It's a personal favorite of mine. The combination of watermelon and crunchy cucumbers provides a sweetness and texture that I love. It takes about 15 minutes to make this almost effortless salad, but I do have one caution to share with you. Don't assemble this salad too far ahead of serving time. Think of this as a goop alert. For maximum flavor, all salad ingredients should be icy cold before they are combined, and if you want your salad to look as good as it tastes, don't let it sit for more than 2 hours once the ingredients have been combined. This is a dish that can be made by young cooks, so if you are lucky enough to have one eager to help in the kitchen let them chop away. This salad is always well received and, fortunately, I've never had to worry about handling leftovers. If you have never tried this salad I urge you to do so. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the flavor punch this unusual combination of ingredients packs. Here is how the salad is made.

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Cucumber Salad with Dill and Sour Cream


From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I have a liking for cucumber salads that I know is not shared by the world at large. There are at least a dozen recipe for them in my archives, but I keep searching for perfection, the one that will provide that perfect bite for which we are known. There are, in my opinion, certain meals that are incomplete without a cool and crunchy salad of this type. Salmon is one of them and it is a standard feature on my table. The recipe I'm featuring tonight is for a cucumber salad that uses salt to extract moisture from sliced cucumbers. The process makes for really crisp cucumbers and once they are rinsed and drained the remainder of the recipe is a cakewalk. My personal taste runs towards vinegar-type salads, but the Silver Fox loves those that are napped with a creamy dressing. This recipe comes from Food Done Right and I decided to try this creamy version with the salmon we had over the weekend. It makes a nice salad and I think those of you who try it, will enjoy this cool and refreshing addition to your table. Here is how this simple dish is made.

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