Cucumber Week, Day 8: Cucumber Round Up

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Cucumber Week Ends with a bonus day!  A roundup of my cucumber recipes and other’s cucumber recipes!

Young Wifey’s Cucumber Salads:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad

Other cucumber recipes from Young Wifey’s Blog:
Spa Water, Tea Sandwiches, Tzatziki,
Greek Pasta Salad, Greek Salad

Check out these other bloggers’ great cucumber recipes:
A Cozy Kitchen: Strawberry Cucumber Agua Fresca
A Healthy Jalapeno: Cucumber Buttermilk Soup
BiteDelite: Cucumber Boats
From the Bartolini Kitchens: Refrigerator Bread & Butter Pickles
Good Life Eats: Cucumber Feta Rolls
Make the Best of Everything: Cucumber Subs
Riotflower’s Realm: Dill Pickles
Rufus’ Food and Spirits Guide: Cucumber Shooters
The Easy Indian: Yogurt Cucumber Kheere ka Raita Indian Recipe
The Newlywed Chefs: White Gazpacho
The Root Cellar’s Garden: Baked Cucumbers
Vegetarian Foodie: Cucumber and Radish Salad 

Do you have a favorite cucumber recipe worth mentioning?

Cucumber Week, Day 5: Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad

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This is my manlier variation of cucumber salad just for Hubster. Afterall, today is our fifth anniversary!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ Thus, why today’s post is so delayed. Don’t worry, next week I’ll share some of our celebration details!

Sorry the pictures didn’t tun out too well, but the rainy day prevented me from getting a well-lit shot.

Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad Drizzled w/Dressing

Ingredients:
3 cucumbers, 5 strips of prosciutto*, 1/4 c. bleu cheese (or gorgonzola), 1/4 balsamic vinegar, 1/8 c. extra virgin olive oil, fresh cracked black pepper

Directions:
Cut prosciutto into tiny strips. Peel alternating stripes on the cucumber and thinly slice cucumber. Mix together cheese, vinegar, oil and pepper. Drizzle over or toss with cucumbers and prosciutto and serve chilled.

Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad Tossed w/Dressing

* I reserve a portion of this salad, before adding the prosciutto. For my variation, I add crumbled turkey bacon.

Cucumber Week:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad

Cucumber Week, Day 4: Creamy Dill Cucumber

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A good family friend often makes this variation of cucumber salad when we get together for summer meals. Don’t let the twin like appearance of yesterday’s Greek Cucumber Salad fool you (maybe I should’ve sliced today’s cucumbers), this salad has a different taste.

Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:
3-4 cucumbers, 1 c. sour cream, 1/8 c. sugar, 1/2 vidalia onion, 2 Tbsp. white vinegar, 2 Tbsp. dill weed, fresh ground sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper

Directions:
Cut cucumbers into small chunks. Dice onion. Mix together all ingredients. Keep chilled

Cucumber Week:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad

Making a different variation each day, certain helps us from getting sick of eating so many cucumbers… so far this week I’ve already eaten 5 myself!

Cucumber Week, Day 3: Greek Cucumber Salad

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Today’s cucumber salad is really a glorified (or chunky) version of tzatziki! How could you not love that? Yum!

Greek Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:
3-4 cucumbers, 2 c. Greek yogurt (or 1 1/3 c. plain yogurt and 1/3 c. sour cream), 3 Tbsp. mince garlic, 1 Tbsp. olive oil, 1 Tbsp. fresh dill weed, 1 Tbsp. lemon juice, fresh ground sea salt

Directions:
Cut into chunks and sprinkle with salt. Mix together remaining ingredients. Toss in cucumbers and mix until well coated. Keep chilled and allow to set for at least 4 hours.

*Serve with chicken souvlaki skewers as a side dish, or with wedges of pita as a chunky dip.

Cucumber Week:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad

Cucumber Week, Day 2: Italian Cucumber Salad

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Yay! For my 500th post!!!!

Our local deli serves the cucumber and tomato salad that inspired this cucumber salad recipe. Although I can never actually taste the cucumbers or tomatoes in theirs, since it’s drenched in bottled Italian dressing. Since it uses two veggies that are ripe in the garden right now, it was the perfect choice for us!

Although Pumpkin’s mostly outgrown his sous chef stage, he mixed together the dressing, while I sliced the veggies. 🙂

Italian Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:
2 cucumbers, 8 roma tomatoes, 1/2 c. fresh grated cheese (I use pecorino romano), 1/3 c. white vinegar, 3 Tbsp. olive oil, 2 Tbsp. sugar, 1 Tbsp. minced garlic, 1 Tbsp. parsley, 2 tsp. marjoram, 2 tsp. basil, 2 tsp. oregano, 1 tsp. sage, fresh ground sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper

Directions:
Slice cucumbers and roma tomatoes and set aside. Mix together remaining ingredients. Pour dressing over veggies and toss. Serve chilled.

Cucumber Week:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad

What’s growing fresh in your garden this week?

Cucumber Week, Day 1: Dad’s Pickled Cucumber Salad

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BBQ and picnic season is in full swing, and that means tasty potlucks, scorching hot weather and refreshing drinks. If you are sick of bringing the same ol’ side dish, try something new! Cucumbers are cool and refreshing on a steamy day. This week I’ll share all my variations of cucumber salad with you.

Dad’s Pickled Cucumber Salad

Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:
3-4 cucumbers, 1/2 large red onion, 1 c. sugar, 1 c. white vinegar, 1 c. water, fresh ground sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper

Directions:
Peel alternating stripes on cucumbers. Thinly slice cucumber and onion, place in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt & pepper. Pour sugar, vinegar and water over cucumbers. Stir until well mixed. Keep chilled and allow to rest for at least 12 hours before serving.

Coming Up:
Pickled Cucumber Salad, Italian Cucumber Salad, Greek Cucumber Salad, Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad, Bleu Cheese Cucumber Salad, Salmon Cucumber Salad, Spicy Cucumber Salad